My mom just sent me these pictures from Bussey. This is right outside our house! An old man somehow lost control and drove right into the telephone pole and now the only thing holding the pole up are all the wires that run to the nearby houses! My mom was told to either leave her [...]

To say that October is a popular birthday month for my family and friends is an understatement. Today alone I’m celebrating three birthdays. First up, my Uncle Ron is turning 75 today! Happy Birthday, Uncle Ron. I use this occasion to show off one of my favorite old family photos. It is of Uncle Ron [...]

Forty three minutes left in today and I’m just getting time to sit down with an internet connection. It was a lovely day after Thanksgiving day. This morning my mom and I went and got my Christmas tree. It was a spur-of-the-moment change of plans before she left town. The tree was procured at my [...]

and I’ll shamelessly post pictures of the day I was born and childhood birthday parties if I want to. Click on the photo for more pictures of my first few years of birthdays. Also, Happy Birthday to my favorite musician who was privileged enough to be born a year after me, John Mayer.

Thursday evening I enjoyed a long, semi-drawn out meal hosted by Jerry & Sara that also included Donor and Frosty & Margaret. Sara made some very delicious risotto and baked chicken. Frosty eventually brought a tasty Caesar salad complete with homemade croûtons. It was fun to recount past weddings and roadtrips over some good drinks [...]

Its been a great birthday long weekend and I will post full details along with photos including pictures of people other than myself tomorrow, but right now I just want to say thanks a huge thanks to all my friends and family who made this a really memorable birthday by remembering in one way or [...]

[WARNING: EXTREMELY LONG POST] Even though its only the 11th, July is passing quickly. The month started off with the Iowa City Jazzfest. I volunteered to help this year. After some miscommunication with the volunteer coordinator, I wasn’t really sure what I was going to end up doing when I showed up on Saturday morningish. [...]

Over the Memorial Day weekend, my mom and I finally finished the painting of the room formerly known as my bedroom, which is on its way to becoming my mom’s office/sewing room. Way back in March of 2005, the room appeared as it had for years, except there used to be more things on the [...]

I was going to hold off on this post until I had the photos ready to accompany it,but my computer still isn’t completely reassembled/reorganized and fun with iPhoto will have to wait a few more days. Friday At 4:30pm, I dashed home to shed my workday attire and headed over to Bob’s Your Uncle (eastside) [...]

Its very Monday today. I’ve managed to concentrate nearly all day on my most pressing project at work. My focus was contibuted to by my temporary computer and the fact that I can’t get this install of Lotus Notes (version 5) to notify me when I have new messages at all. So I have to [...]