I was watching a show yesterday about the best hot dog stands in the country. Somehow I thought it would be educational since I don’t like hot dogs or give a crap in any way shape or form. Nevertheless, I watched the show for sheer lack of anything better to do. Each hot dog [...]
Today, friends, is the one year anniversary of my blog. I’ve written almost 400,000 words this year covering some topics I know well and others that I’ve had to research. In either case my writing has improved and my blogging knowledge has grown. In fact, the first thing I ever wrote for this blog, [...]
We’ve been to numerous national parks and other tourist attraction over the course of the past three weeks; Goblin Valley, Bryce Canyon, Zion, The Queen Mary and the Scorpion submarine, Malibu, Morro Bay, Hearst Castle, Santa Cruz Boardwalk and Mystery Spot and, finally, Alcatraz. We’re not even done yet. Entrance to a lot of [...]
I drove 200 miles up the Pacific Coast Highway yesterday enjoying the scenery and the meandering road. Then, like every other town that announces its presence, I saw a sign for Buellton, a little town with a funny billboard. The population of Buellton would like everybody to know that they are the home of split [...]
I can’t believe I didn’t write about this sooner. We’ve been traveling for two weeks with a week still left to go. Packing for a trip used to be nothing more than me throwing a bunch of clothes in a bag and getting on a plane; if I forgot something I’d just buy another of [...]
Stop the presses! I’m going to eat my words. A long time ago, and I can’t remember when, I mentioned something about Keurig Coffee machines (look at that. I found it) being super awesome. For quick, no fuss, coffee I still think they’re pretty good. Unfortunately they can’t make a cup of coffee that stands [...]
Do you like horses, knights, damsels in distress and fighting? I can say for sure that most kids love those things (perhaps even the damsel in distress part), and my kids are no exception. We’re on vacation now; you probably know that from reading my past posts this week. Last night the whole family [...]
Here we are, traveling through a spectacularly beautiful part of the United States, and all my boys want to do is watch movies, play Nintendo and tell fart jokes. The road trips of my youth were nothing like kids experience today (I know this is starting to sound like an uphill to school in [...]
I‘ve been waiting patiently for the day I could subject my kids to Monopoly, the game that my dad routinely used when we were growing up to remind us who the boss was; it was pure domination for at least a decade. Yesterday was my chance to deliver the beat down to the next [...]
Sometimes I have nothing better to do with my time than to peruse the shelves at my local/national chain bookstore. Today I spoiled myself and sat in the cafe area drinking a cappuccino reading Success magazine. Gillian Michaels was on the cover and I couldn’t resist the urge to find new source [...]
There’s a funny thing about movies in the 80′s. A lot of them contain humorously bad language despite their PG ratings. I was discussing this with a friend of mine and speculated the reason was the lack of PG-13 ratings in the 80′s. I figured it was simply that PG had more leeway back [...]
