It’s been a long time coming but the day finally happened, or would it be the night finally happened? Regardless of how you want to phrase it, I sat behind the DM screen last night. For years life had simply gotten in the way of running an RPG. Not just events of my own life…
Tag: Family
All This in a Bag of Chips
Just this afternoon I found myself with a hankering for some potato chips. It’s not very often that I eat these things on account of how their grease tends to have a highly negative impact on my digestive tract. Every now and then though I just can’t help myself and I succumb to the desire.I…
Week in Pictures
I recently upgraded my cell phone to one that includes a built-in camera. Because of this I have been able to shoot pictures just about all the time.I present to you my week in pictures:This is my cat Kiko, sitting on the kitchen table. He knows he is not allowed to sit up there but…
The New Flooring Part 2: Installation
Last week (or so) I told you about how I was getting my bedroom ready for a new wood floor. The picture on the right is a series of planks from the first box of wood. As you can clearly see they are about three inches wide and of various lengths. Each piece has a…
The New Flooring Part 1: Out With The Old
For those of you following along at home I recently purchased about 200 square feet of hardwood flooring to redo the floor in my master bedroom. Most of the rest of the house has hardwood flooring from when it was built in the 1950’s but an addition was added on in the 1990’s that did…
Two More Fillings Please!
I had to go to the dentist this morning and get two cavities filled. It wasn’t all bad because the teeth in question had been filled about 15 years ago when I was in the army and they still had the old metal fillings in them.A few months ago I had to get a filling…
What Price Would You Pay?
My family and I went to New York City last week and all over town we saw signs for Spike TV. They were advertising the fact that they were showing a bunch of Star Wars movies all month long.I’m a Star Wars fan myself and one thing that used to bother me was the fact…
Three Rakes
For the past two weeks I’ve been doing spring cleaning in the mornings before work. Six days ago we had a large dumpster dropped off in our yard to get rid of all sorts of junk and debris.The junk consists of old wood, sinks, car parts, etc… This stuff as been hanging around in our…
Christmas is coming
I know that it is not exactly news to most people but Christmas is almost upon us. It is a religious holiday that has been converted into the holiest of days to those who belong to the world of retail shopping. It is the holiest of days to those who belong to the religion of…
The Sleepover
A few weeks ago my daughter received an invitation to a sleepover birthday party. I was looking forward to it with great gusto while my wife was apprehensive and nervous. My mind was saying, “awesome! kid gone for the night!” My wife was thinking, “oh no, I’m so nervous, she’ll be gone all night!”Well, the…
Pull it or fill it
>Ouch… My tooth hurts.About a week ago I lost a filling in one of my teeth. I do not know exactly when I lost it but I did notice that the inside of my mouth did not feel right. There was something sharp and a hole where things used to be smooth.For the first few…
Ikea – Swedish for ‘crazy kids
Today I took my family to the Ikea store in New Haven Connecticut. It was my daughter, wife and myself. My wife wanted to go to find some ‘storage solutions’ for my daughter’s messy room and I just wanted to get out of the house. My daughter wanted to go to but her reasons were…