Today I had the stitches removed from the surgery I had last week.  Anyone want to see my scar?

AA is a cult.  It’s a cult that tears families apart.  It’s a cult that demands total obedience to its slogans and rules.  I’ve seen this happen with my own eyes.  I’ve seen a person I love swept away by this cult and ignore her family and responsibilities.
There are alternatives to AA, but you rarely [...]

So I ran out and bought a bottle of vodka.  I’m not really a drinker, so it shouldn’t take much to do the job.  I plan to get so drunk that I won’t remember why I got drunk.  I plan to get so drunk that I’ll pass out instead of having to suffer through another [...]

I’ve lost my best friend.  My partner.  My companion.  I don’t know when she reached the point of no return.  I think we might have been able to save our marriage six months ago, but there was one overriding problem that kept us from making progress.  Something we, at the time, could do nothing about.  [...]

I am now faced with the most heart-breaking event in my life.  The destruction of my family.  I love my wife and my step-daughter, but all that awaits my immediate future is a divorce.  It’s not my choice.  My wife has made it clear through her actions and words that she no longer has feelings [...]

A Prayer for my Daughter
Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
William Butler Yeats

Myspace and other community websites have been making the news lately due to the perceived danger of online predators.  While I personally believe the danger is exaggerated by the Main Stream News, the fact is, there is some danger as proven by a several recent rapes and abductions that were the result of teenagers meeting [...]

Marital problems are difficult, at best, to work out in a normal environment.  When a member of the household is bipolar, the problems become seemingly insurmountable.  The emotional storms of the bipolar individual are a constant challenge to all who are involved.  Each time you start over to clean your marital beach, a tsunami sweeps [...]

Today I received word from the Harley dealer that my credit application was approved.  In a few days I will be driving around on this…

So I went to the Harley dealership and filled out all the paperwork.  They need to prep my new bike and it won’t be ready until next week.  I returned to [...]

Worst. Thanksgiving. ever.

How come I can be shown a long and complicated sequence of steps to perform on a server just once and I remember it, but when my wife asks me to transfer the laundry from the washer to the dryer I forget during the 10 minute drive home?

I have, in front of me, the signed employment contract for my new job, which I plan to fax back to the company tomorrow morning.  My new title will be Senior Linux System Administrator and my salary will go up by two and a half times what I am currently making.
I am horribly underpaid in [...]

Due to family matters, I haven’t had much desire to post anything for a long time.  Hopefully, I can get myself into the mood to write more often.  I would especially like to get the Ass-Hate of the Week Award updated.  For the moment, though, I’ll just mention the latest cool Linux tool.
A few weeks [...]

Sometimes I’m an idiot.  Here’s proof…
My wife has been having occassional trouble sending email to a business associate through our server to AOL.  So this evening I sat down to figure out what was the problem.  I spent some time googling on “aol connection problems” and the like.  Eventually getting to an AOL web page [...]

I rip all my CDs to the computer because it’s so much more convenient.  I can play anything I want without having to dig through a stack of disks looking for the one I want.  I can also access my music collection from work since I’ve set up my server to stream tracks which I [...]

One of the advantages of a cordless phone is that the batteries will run out after about eight hours of continuous use.  You’ll understand why this is important when you have a teenage daughter in the house.

I hate doing job interviews.  Unfortunately, it’s impossible to avoid them.  In the past few years I’ve had a lot of them.  I’ve walked away from interviews thinking I had nailed it perfectly, yet the offer did not materialized.  Once I knew five minutes into the interview that there was zero chance of getting the [...]

Tequilla, lime, salt.  Ok, I’m all set.

I was gazing out my window today and discovered we have more new additions to the family. This time, nine tiny ducklings.

April 26th: Nature is not kind to babies.  Only five ducklings left.

Spring is here, and that means new arrivals to the family.  There is now a happy family of four goslings and the two parents in our lake.  Here’s two of the babies resting on the sidewalk beside the lake this afternoon.  Click on the picture to see the entire family.