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My 360 is dead…temporarily. I am kind of in mourning, as I realize just how often I used the thing. For those of you without a 360, it is so much more than a gaming console. I watch DVD’s on it, I video chat with my homies, I browse the marketplace and download many things…come [...]
Back in October, Jen, James and I got together with my brothers and their families up in Dallas to take some portraits of all of the kids. While up there, we had lunch at Freebirds on Beltline. Pete won a free Monster Burrito, and gave the card to me (there aren’t any Freebirds’es up in [...]
Last night I was playing Rainbow Six: Vegas (Here’s my quickie review, “It’s a great game!”) on Xbox Live. None of my friends were playing, so I was just hopping onto Team Survival games because they tend to be one of the quicker game types. It was a 5 on 5 match, and about a [...]
Today, I think I may have discovered the most impatient person in the Austin area. Here’s how it went down. I leave the apartment at 5:30 in order to get to CPHS in time for our fall concert warm-up. When I pull up to the Spectrum/Parmer intersection, the light is red, so I wait as [...]
1. As I was walking to the car at 6:45 am, I was greeted by a cheerful and rather chubby looking armadillo.
Man, it’s been a while since I last posted anything. So, let me sum up the past few months.
Fatherhood
All of the parenting entries pretty much sum up that topic from Jen’s point of view, but being a dad is nothing like being a mom. Here’s a few reasons [...]
I got a lot of stares in DC. Not the good kind that make you feel pretty or attractive or even complimented in a way – though it’s rare that someone would admit that they like those kind of stares. Nope. I got the stares of confusion. Where man, woman, and child alike staring are puzzled, and you can [...]
Sunday afternoons are usually uneventful for the two of us. We always go to church where we are each involved in a ministry. David plays trombone in the Worship Team and I work the first service in the Resource Center. The Resource Center is pretty cool. We sell all kinds of books and sermon series [...]
Courtesy the teenagers who play bass clarinet at Cedar Park High School who I had the honor of spending my afternoon with:
I was scrounging through the folder of “stand tunes” — tunes a high school marching band plays whilst standing in the stands — and I came across Speak Up Mambo, which I mentioned [...]
So we’re in Virginia and enjoying the rainy weather… We’re here for David’s cousin’s wedding. She’s getting married tomorrow here in Cape Charles. So… from the beginning. Let me tell you about the flight. Oh boy! I love flying… Love love love it, but that doesn’t prevent me from being a little bit nervous. I [...]
Becky and I and Amy, a friend of Becky’s, and Mary, a friend of Amy’s, all met at Becky’s house yesterday. Music ties us all together, though we are all in different stages of our studies. I, the lowest on the totem pole, and probably the youngest of us four, am not currently studying music [...]
Henry Middle School had the lawncare guys out mowing the lawn today when I walked up to teach today. I guess it caught nature off guard as well, because when I got inside and opened up my case, there was an inch-worm in my clarinet! There are no signs of infestation, and I’m figuring that [...]
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