It’s been twenty-six years since Susan and I first moved in together. As a couple (and later family), we’ve moved a total of six times. When I first moved to Weatherford to live with Susan, it had only been three months since I had quit working at Pizza Hut. As a result, most of my things arrived in boxes that originally held cheese, pepperoni, and cans of pizza sauce. When we moved back from Weatherford to Oklahoma City, most of our moving boxes came from Long John Silver’s. A few months later when we moved to El Reno, we used… (read more)

If you follow me (or my wife) on social media, you may have already heard the news. If not, here it is: we’re moving. This decision has not been easy, at least not for me. We’ve been looking at houses off and on for about two years now. (As I like to say, we’ve been “looking,” but not “looking-looking.”) We’ve attended at least a dozen open houses, and this is the first one that met enough of our needs for us to even consider. So while the search has been long, once we found this one, we had to make… (read more)

Last week seemed like one long celebration, beginning with my 23rd wedding anniversary and ending with my 45th birthday. Susan and I kicked off the week in a small cabin outside of Guthrie. The cabin was one of four that collectively made up Arcadian Getaways. The cabin we reserved was cozy and two-stories, complete with everything a person could want including a screened-in sauna and hot tub, which provided a great view of the surrounding trees and stars late in the evening. While staying in Guthrie we had dinner at a local diner named Stacy’s Place. We went in with… (read more)

Facebook made a slight change to its site this week, a change so slight that you probably didn’t even notice. You might not even consider the change to be a big deal. To millions of bloggers (such as myself), it’s a pretty big deal. On Wednesday, August 1st, Facebook disabled automatic cross-posting to personal profiles. Technical mumbo-jumbo aside, that means Facebook no longer allows people like me to automatically publish links to the blog posts I post on RobOHara.com to Facebook. Allow me to offer a tiny peek behind the curtain. Here, on RobOHara.com, the blog posts I publish in… (read more)

My friends have a pretty good idea about what kinds of things I’ll like, so after three of them independently suggested I check out ABC’s hit sitcom The Goldbergs, I decided to watch an episode and see what the fuss was about. It’s been just over a month, and I’ve now watched all five seasons of the show. The show, which debuted in 2013, is a family-based sitcom set in the 1980s. The show combines the “looking back narration” style of The Wonder Years with a heaping serving of nostalgic references a’la That ’70s Show. The Goldbergs focuses on the… (read more)