birthday

01 Track 1 It’s 4:30 in the morning. At 5:30, I’m going to wake my wife up so she can make some blueberry muffins and decorate the kitchen. No…it’s not some perverse chauvinistic demand.  I don’t make her wake up … Continue reading

kenny rankin in the mole hole

I had a friend at camp who carved out a place to stay underneath the camp library. He dug it out of the earth…and some rough sawn lumber and a used mattress later, he had one of the few private … Continue reading

Duff’s

Memory is a strange chain. I guess it’s strange because it never seems to be very linear.  It has links that spread out to the sides, veering off into odd directions, randomly adding to the total length. Until you start … Continue reading

what is a weed?

How did we ever get to the point of deciding which plants would be called weeds? Was it all a matter of utility?  Did something get in our way one day…and suddenly, for the rest of time, it was to … Continue reading

jiminez technology

We got new scanners at work a couple of days ago. Actually, what we got was an add-on for our old scanners. It’s a bluetooth enabled cell phone that’s only set up to communicate with the scanner. I guess it’s … Continue reading

enlightenment and the automobile breakdown

It’s a bunch of hype to say “automobile breakdown”. Let’s just get that out of the way first.  The phrase “automobile breakdown” makes it sound like I was stuck on the side of the road, resting in the shade of … Continue reading

rear view

My first thought was, “Man….that guy is taking that off ramp a little too fast.” My second thought was, “There’s no off ramp there….” My third thought was, “That’s just like an action movie!!” That’s a lot of thoughts in … Continue reading

the monk in sheep’s clothing

I think I’ve heard that in Texas they have a phrase… “all hat no cattle”…that means that someone is pretending to be something they’re not. From all outward appearances, you might think they own a big spread…but the reality of … Continue reading

burn it up

I bought a load of logs the other day. Jenny said that when they delivered it in the tandem dump truck that the ground shook when the driver dropped the load. It is a big load o’ logs. Not only … Continue reading