I got a surprising amount of sleep last night, especially considering that I'd stayed up past midnight to greet the new year. Two glasse...

Another year bites the dust. I guess it was fitting that the year ended in such a typical fashion. It rained all night. Dash pooped in the b...

Dash kept kicking me last night and waking me up. He must have been dreaming. Occasionally, he woke me up in the middle of my own dreams and...

I spend my Winters wishing it was Summer and my Summers wishing it was Winter. I was definitely wishing for warmer weather today. Everything...

Today started oddly. As I was getting ready to go to breakfast, I noticed that the garbage truck was parked right next to my can on the stre...

The repairs failed. The roof is leaking again. I heard the familiar sound of water dripping on the brick floors around 3 AM this morning. Wh...

The rain is here. It's been pouring for hours now. There is thunder and lightning. The phones are beeping with flood alerts. Dash is sca...

Christmas is a mishmash of fading memories. I vaguely remember going to Christmas Eve services with my parents. I was raised a Lutheran, but...

Since there is still rain in the forecast for Christmas, I thought I'd get the roof as ready as I could. I went to the hardware store an...

There were only two people at the gym when I arrived this morning. This is a huge facility with a basketball court, a running track, and an ...

I found myself driving all over town today in search of a Christmas ham. When I went to my favorite smokehouse, the guy behind the counter g...

Now we're talking. For the first time in over a week, I felt like I was actually making progress. The dryer is fixed. I'm glad I did...

I was optimistic when I got up this morning. The sky was clear. The temperature was warm. It seemed like a good day to fix the roof. Unfortu...

I had a feeling that things weren't going to go well today when we walked Dash in a heavy fog this morning. The fog was so thick that my...

I had a brief moment of panic this morning when I looked at the weather forecast and saw that there was a chance of rain tomorrow. Where wer...

Janet and I both wonder how we used to accomplish so much when we were younger. It seems to take so long to do even simple things now. It...

I don't actually know anybody at the gym. There are a lot of familiar faces though. I see the same people almost every week. They are p...