First there was this (and this) and then there was this. Now there’s this.
It’s a good thing, and not really as much of a change as it might sound.
Update: Cindy the Squip at Dusting my Brain has taken note of my situation and used it as an opportunity to toy with my dignity.

One of the distinct memories I have of Mother is of a conversation I overheard when I was very young. I think the conversation was with Aunt Nita, and I think it took place in the kitchen at the Calvert’s house, but I can’t be sure; all I really remember is the topic: peanut brittle. [...]

Happy Anniversary my darling bride!

This time a year ago, we were buying plywood and preparing for a hurricane in 100 degree weather. Today the weather is cool and there’s nothing threatening us from the Gulf. What a difference a year makes.

Huntsville Times feature write Lee Roop has a nice article today about Terry’s Pizza: Pizza lovers recall times at Terry’s ‘cheesy heaven’. If you read this blog, some of the words may sound familiar to you. Oh yeah, the “woman at the other end of the phone” — that was Wendy.

A meme has been going around the Houston-area blogs on the theme of “Twenty cool things in my town.” It was started by a Chronicle article entitled 20 Cool Things About Houston, and it spread to the blogs. Dwight at TechBlog has a roundup of the current spate of lists.
I’ve made my own list of [...]

Happy Birthday to my darling bride, who turns 29 today! (…for the 15th time.)
That’s Wendy on the left.

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large, raging violent river.
Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed, “God give me the strength to cross the river.”
Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about two hours, having [...]

That kittens are still cute, especially by the bowlful

If yesterday’s news has you down, just stare at that bowl until you feel better.

Wendy called me at work this morning. The van had broken down again on 288 near 610. The A/C had stopped working and the car had nearly overheated. Wendy and Summer found their way to a community center where they called me, and then they called AAA for a tow. We pay AAA extra for [...]

One of the webblogs I like to read is Scott Lynch’s The Dork Lord on His Dork Throne. I started reading Scott’s blog because it’s interesting, funny, and well written. Scott is a volunteer fireman, and his stories of his fire and rescue calls are what hooked me on his site. I later learned that [...]

I drove downtown to have lunch with Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday. Dwight wanted to treat me to lunch (a) as a gesture of thanks for blogsitting TechBlog while he was away on vacation and (b) so we could talk about the possibility of me continuing to write for TechBlog as Dwight’s [...]

I took off from work early today. The work week was pretty much a waste. I only did a half day Wednesday because I had an appointment downtown (which I’ll tell you about later), and I missed several hours yesterday because of an appointment in Pearland. So I figured why should Friday be a full [...]