Over the weekend Susan and I attended Morgan’s high school marching band contest in St. Louis. Susan and I drove to St. Louis last Thursday and spent four days away from home. Yukon’s Friday afternoon performance was good enough to land them a spot in the finals and so the band performed again on […] 
Judy Tenuta, the “Petite Flower, Giver Goddess, Fashion Plate, Saint” as she introduced herself on her first comedy album, passed away from ovarian cancer over the weekend at the age of 72, according to the Associated Press. As a kid, I grew up listening to my parents’ comedy albums — Bill Cosby mostly, […] 
When most people think of “impulse items” at the store they think of candy bars or those magazines on display in the check-out lane. Technically I suppose an impulse purchase is any item you hadn’t specifically intended on purchasing. For me, that happened to be a 12′ Halloween skeleton last weekend which, at $299, cost […] 
For the second year in a row, Susan and I were asked to serve as float judges at our town’s annual Czech Day Festival, which takes place the first October of every year. Once again our friend and former classmate Jaime Olvera organized the annual parade, and both Susan and I were thrilled to take […] 
I was twelve years old and had just finished sixth grade in the summer of 1985 when I saw The Goonies in my town’s local movie theater, the Chisholm West 5. The theater has changed names a few times throughout its life. In the 1990s it became Dollar Movies 5, a discount theater, and […] 
Over the past few days I fell down a rabbit hole while watching free UFO documentaries on Tubi. One documentary I watched was The Urzi Case: A UFO Mystery in the Skies of Italy. Ten years ago I wrote a blog post titled UFO Sightings: Who Not to Trust. Three untrustworthy groups I mentioned were […] 
On Sunday, after conquering Mount Scott (in our car) and filling our bellies at Meers, Susan and I made our way to Medicine Park. Medicine Park is a small resort town in the Wichita mountains near Lawton, Oklahoma. According to Wikipedia, the population of Medicine Park as of 2010 was 384 people. The first […] 
This year my wedding anniversary fell on a Friday, which meant my birthday was Monday. Susan and I took Friday and Monday off work to have an extended four-day weekend. We had originally planned to spend the weekend in Eureka Springs, but ended up cancelling those plans. Susan’s backup plan was to rent a camper […] 
I saw the first lizard in our driveway about a month ago while I was outside working on my van. It was a hot day, well over 100 degrees, and it wasn’t until I removed my glasses to wipe the stinging sweat from my eyes that I saw something on the ground move. Sitting […] 
Recently while digging through a pile of old electronics in my workshop I stumbled across this, my old Sony DVD/CD burner. I began purchasing audio CDs in the early 90s, and bought completely into the format in 1993 when my car was broken into and all of my favorite cassettes were stolen. I […] |
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