End Of The Week Shenanigans Or; What, Me Worry?

We made it to Friday. The week has pretty much been dominated here in the states with government shutdowns, government openings, who’s to blame for said shutdowns, and something about emails implicating powerful men(on both sides of the aisle) in child rape. Oh, and a former Fox News host drawing a line between being a […]

“Sht Show at the Fck Factory”

I’m so happy to have finally arrived at Thursday. It’s been a long week at work, with me having to take 3 days worth of Yellow Belt training as it’s now become a requirement in our facility. No, I’m not taking Tae Kwon Do classes at work(though that would be preferable.) No, Yellow Belt training […]

Getting Better

The summer of 2025 will be known as the summer of change; some good, some difficult, and some that remind you to never get too comfortable in the current situation. I won’t rehash it, because more than likely if you’re reading this then you are probably a semi-regular patron of this page and I’m sure […]

The Hits Keep Hitting

I think I’ve gotten to the point this summer that I’m done complaining. It seems the more you complain the more the universe wants to mess with you. What’s the phrase? “The squeaky wheel gets the grease”? Yeah, well the universe is greasing me up real good this year. But hey, we’re all alive and […]

“I’m Going Through Changes”

It’s been a weird year so far. No big vacations, no big events like graduations, and nothing standing out as monumental. It’s been quiet, but not in a peaceful sort of way. The last two months have been dominated by health issues our daughter’s been dealing with, and the last two weeks were by far […]

All’s Meh That Ends Meh

You ever have one of those weeks where you feel like the world is crumbling around you, and you can’t quite find shelter from it? What ever can go bad does go bad? Yeah? Well I most definitely had that week last week, and it moved right on into the weekend for a nearly 7-day […]

A Cut And A Shave

The first haircut I remember was at some barber shop downtown in an old house. You had to take stairs on the outside of the building up to a small room with 2 barber chairs and a crusty old guy waiting with little patience. I imagine him as a barber in the army giddily cutting […]

Sometimes, You’re Just Sad

It’s been a pretty lousy last month if I’m being honest. Sick over my spring vacation, sharing that sickness with my elderly parents, one of my best friends and longtime co-worker has a heart attack and is out of commission for three months, and then there’s the month of May. May is one of those […]

Monday Check-In, 3/3/25 : Birthday Weekend

Like a bad penny, or maybe a cursed penny, Monday has returned. Seriously, the fact we have to spend the majority of our lives wasting 40 hours out of the total 168 hours we get in a week at work is preposterous. Nearly a quarter of our week is spent doing something we really don’t […]

Beater

We bought the “blue beast” in the summer of 2004. Well actually, we leased it in the summer of 2004. The year before we’d traded in my wife’s 1994 Nissan Maxima for a 5-speed manual 2003 Honda Civic. We had two daughters, 3 and barely 3 months old, and were ready to trade up to […]