Q. What sucks worse than getting blisters on your feet from playing barefoot tennis?
A. Getting your ass handed to you in straight sets by Frank.
Folks, it was ugly. Fortunately, I was marginally better at building sand castles. We found out this weekend that it takes not 1, not 2, but 3 redundant sets of […]

So a little background here. Bay to Breakers is a 5 mile race through the heart of San Francisco for about 2% of the people that show up. For everyone else, it’s a giant moving party through the city. People dress up in costumes (or run around naked) and lots of people construct various floats […]

Well folks, it’s come to that time where I’ve been too lazy about updating the blog software to stay ahead of the spammers. Over 150 pieces of trackback span in 24 hours means a very unhappy Morton gets to clean out all the crap for me. Comments are on for now, with heavy moderation settings, […]

So Harvey got out tonight and hasn’t been seen for a few hours. I’ve walked my feet off looking for him - anyone have any ideas on luring a cat back home?
Update
Well the blog-signal went out and Frank and Kimberly showed up with flashlights and Frank’s new cat-finding device, the tuna-tube. After snooping in the […]

No pictures at the moment, I left the camera in the car. My original plan was to stop in Reno, but I got there at like 4:30 and decided to haul ass through California. The road through the Sierra Nevada mountains has to be the worst stretch of road on all of I-80, poor Harvey […]

Colorado:

Utah:

Harvey:

Recipie for Rocky Mountain Cool:
-Ice Bucket
-Third Coast Beer
-Water
Step 1. Check into Motel after a long, hard day of driving through Nebraska.

*yawn*
Step 2. Take the ice bucket from your room and fill to maximum with ice, Insert two trunk-temperature Third Coast Beers. Add water to increase the cooling effect.

Step 3. Open and enjoy while Barry […]

So I’ve been chilling in Des Moines the past few days seeing the family and getting ready to take off for California early on Sunday morning. On the way back, I stopped in Iowa City to survey the tornado damage and to see Brian and Danielle down at the Java House. They offered to let […]