Fireworks go BOOOOOM!

So today I went to the Fireworks capitol of our area, South Pittsburgh, Tennessee.  I visited a fireworks wholesaler for the first time in my life, and let me say that fireworks are a well branded, slick product.  And I’ve got a freelance sorta gig setting up a website for a fireworks retailer.  The purpose [...]

You may have noticed…

 
You may have noticed an increase in posting here.  At least, I hope you have.  I’m secretly (well, not so much anymore) participating in the National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), which means I’m supposed to write a blog post every day this month.  I’m not making a big deal about it, but it has made [...]

Why I love Halloween.

Year two of the big house was a success, but more important to me the act of Trick or Treating was a success.
It’s no secret to those of you who read my blog regularly that I love Halloween.  That I build crazy stuff to scare people on this great day, and that I perhaps go [...]

An update from Angel Island

I’m posting this from my new favorite oasis in Huntsville.  Okay, it’s not really new, and it’s actually been my favorite for a while.  I’m at Angel Island Coffee.  And I hang out here most mornings after dropping the kiddo off at school.  Why?  Cause it has great coffee and free wifi and I can [...]

The Weekend From Hell

I think it is safe to say I’ve had the worst weekend in a long long while.
It started Thursday, and I’ve thought of Thursday as the first day of the weekend for a long time now, when with no warning and no discussion, I was called into my project manager’s office and laid off then [...]

So Proud Of My Family

I don’t talk about my family all that much hear because my wife doesn’t care for me putting too much personal information about us on the Internet.  I can understand that.
But I’ve got to report that my wife just finished a 6 week doctor supervised intensive diet plan on which she lost 27 pounds, or [...]

Strep Throat, not for the squimish.

So I’m at the doctors. My throat has been midly hurting since Wednesday and yesterday it got pretty bad. But the kids had an event. So I roughed it out. But today, I’m in the doctors.
Besides being the typhoid Michael of the Autumn Chase my kids ran in (pictures soon) I didn’t do much. [...]

This just in from Cryptomundo!

One of my favorite blogs, Cryptomundo, just had this in their batch of stuff for the day:
Screaming Fishermen Confirm Gator Sighting
Seems some poor chaps fishing from a floating platform on a lake in Indiana saw a gator and refused to come off the platform for fear of being attacked.  This post caught my attention for [...]

Buying A Kayak

For Father’s Day, my kids got me a kayak.  Which means, since my kids are little, I picked out and got myself a kayak.  But it sounds better to say the kids did it.
This involved much research on my part. And by research I mean I went to the outfitters and took pictures of boats [...]

Teaser from my most recent canoe trip

Okay, I just finished writing an epic novel about LAST weekends canoe trip since I’m so ridiculously far behind in my blogging.  Excpecially about the canoe. So this is a short little teaser, with a test.  I got a new waterproof camera, and it even shoots simple video (like they make any digital camera’s that [...]