The Year of My Socks, Two-Thousand and Eighteen
Luckily the longest day of 2018 was just a few days ago, giving me enough daylight still today at 8:30 PM to capture this shot of the moon with space shuttle socks in the foreground. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty pleased with it. That goes for the socks too, which you can … Continue reading Moonshot
Middle son "bridged" from 8th grade forward into the terrifying unknowns of High School today, and of course the Puddinette and I attended the ceremony. Sadly, I didn't have anything "graduation" appropriate in the drawer, so I let said son choose my socks for the occasion. He selected with these, thinking that the event called … Continue reading A Cool Beverage In Celebration
It seems as if every time I turn around, there’s another new way to dot the I’s, cross the t’s, and close the book on summer. It’s over at the Fall Equinox! No, dummy, it’s over at Labor Day! Screw you guys, it’s over when the distributors ship us pumpkin beers! I don’t know what … Continue reading What I Did On My Summer Hiatus
Welcome back to the real world. The Matrix has belched us all out again, and thus the Song of the EveryDay—a hymn of low, mournful tones—fills the air as those of us in the USA look past our weekend of summertime revelry. Time to set aside those incendiary devices for another year and we can … Continue reading Nothing Remained But A Heap of Ashy, Sulfurous Paper Bits And The Aftertaste of Sausage
The first two weeks of summer vacation are usually kind of a blur. The first is mostly an expression of the pure, unadulterated joy of having no responsibilities after nine long, grueling months of school activity. Believe it or not, I'm talking every bit as much about adults as I am about the kids basking … Continue reading Summer Vacation, Week Three: The Initial (Ugly) Face Of Boredom
I guess it’s the second week of summer vacation now? I think that’s right. At least, where we live. Truth be told, the minute summer break starts for the kids, I immediately lose the ability to track time and/or events in a meaningful, relative way. I think it’s like some built-in defense mechanism to keep … Continue reading Summer Vacation, Week Two: An Adventure In Space And Time
Back, neck, nethers? Damp.Sultry, pudding-thick, dead air Come, fall, come; this sucks!
I'm afraid I'm lacking both the available brain waves and the necessary time to write a blog post that isn't either utter nonsense or the random vomit-age of gibberish syllables. The mean reason, of course, is, well, you probably know the reason. It starts with "I" and ends with "have eight chapters of novel climax … Continue reading Things In My Garage because Things In My Brain
Before you get your suspenders all twisted up in an uncomfortable, constricting knot (and that goes for both the over-the-shoulder variety as well as the around-the-calves-to-hold-up-my-Mad-Men-esque-black-socks), there will be no history lessons associated with this post. Which is not to say it won’t become some kind of lesson for the children of tomorrow, a cautionary … Continue reading An Independence Day primer
I have to admit that I'm a little taken aback by the remarkably temperate weather currently favoring us here in eastern midwest, or whatever largely inaccurate geographic designation is current in use for the Ohio valley. Regardless, it's like, cool, you know? As if maybe fall this year isn't only going to be this 10-day … Continue reading More beer-related evidence of a summer gone by
