Interview With The Umpire

Well, that’s only partially true.  I was the first base umpire for one little league game, once, when I was 16.  That was plenty.  Them peoples is crazy.
But I’ve been sitting on these interview questions from Laura for ages upon ages by now.  Hell, they’ve been done for months, I set them aside for some [...]

More than I can chew?

Sometimes I wonder why I put myself in these situations.
After two nights of work I’ve gotten the Rainy Mix down from 400+ songs to about 230.  I need to shave another 50-75 before it’ll fit on a disc.  I’ve already plucked the low-hanging fruit, and the fruit I can reach with a ladder, and the [...]

Marital Bliss

This conversation took place between Dys and I via IM about two minutes ago.

Dys:
k, i need to get my ass to work here. do ‘we’ have dinner ideas?

TB:
uh, this part of ‘we’ don’t

what about that frozen meal thing you bought? one of them?
cordon bleu or that funky olive thing or whatever?

Dys:
you cookin?  *bats [...]

…And You Will Be Killed.

I don’t know where or how Dys found this article, but she emailed it to me several days ago (you know it’s bad when you’re too busy to read your own wife’s “You gotta see this!” links) and I decided I had to share it with you guys.
The author is Jeremy Clarkson, best known as [...]

Snorkeling

Up to my eyes, hell.  I’m so far underwater, I swear, soon a snorkel won’t be good enough and I’ll need a bona fide SCUBA setup.
(Got any beat-up loaners, Beej?)
Let’s review:
a)  Out of town all tomorrow morning.
2)  Thursday and Friday I have to spend a minimum of 5 hours (between the two) finishing the work [...]

Every new beginning…

…comes from some other beginning’s end.
I was driving Boy to school this morning, with the radio off in opposition to the usual practice.  It was a bright, brilliant morning and looking like the definition of “fine spring day.”
“It sure is a pretty day today, isn’t it, son?”
“I’ll say it is!”  Yes, that’s literally what he [...]

Monday Music

Whew.  Almost forgot.  I had remembered last night, but I’d forgotten today until Dys reminded me just a few minutes ago.
It’s fairly well overdue, but I finally got a new mp3 player.  My in-laws gave me a 1gb player for Christmas back in ‘04 I think, and they paid something like $250 for it at [...]

Rumors of My Demise

…are premature at best.
No biggie, just a whole shit-ton of workin’.  There will be at least some of the same next week, as due to circumstances beyond my control I wasn’t able to finish my huge project on Thursday and Friday (although I’d hoped to be done by midday yesterday).
Dys did not, as one might [...]

For My Wife

You other ladies might enjoy it as well…

Imagine looking at this picture of Barry Gibb in a full-sized inside album cover as a 5-year-old and thinking, “Damn, that’s what a man has to look like?  I’m in big trouble.”
Of course, then you flip over to Robin’s cover and go, “Oh.  Maybe not so much.”
Seriously, I [...]

Already?

Vaguely related to Dys’s post from yesterday…
On Sunday, en route to one of his favorite places on earth (go kart track), the following words issued from my son’s mouth.  Keep in mind that he was in the back seat, sandwiched between my parents, with Dys and I in the front…it adds to the effect.
“Everybody get [...]