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I had great ambitions about once again becoming a frequent Internet publisher and even was for a couple of days. Then just as I was about to log into WordPress to work on a post called “Day of 100 Eagles” (which I have not yet written, so you haven’t missed it), I learned the hard [...]

I spent all day working on our van today. It’s been a while since I spent the whole day working on a vehicle and I really can’t say I missed it much. I like cars and I like working on them, but I don’t like the way “simple” things end up taking all day. I [...]

I didn’t mention it here yet, but I have determined to get back to daily posting. There’s really no excuse not to. My dad does and has for years- after I nagged him for probably a couple of years to get started writing online at all. Now he is diligent and I wrote like eight [...]

2007 has just ended and as I think back over the past year, there is one clear outstanding event. That was the birth of my third child and first daughter, Elsie Rose. I’m sure there were a great number of other tremendous things in 2007, but unfortunately, as frequently seems to happen, when trying to [...]

I stayed up later than I meant to last night. I meant to get in bed early, but it was around 12:30 am when I finally turned off the light– and then I had to make a conscious decision to close the latest work from Johnny D. Boggs and officially initiate closing procedures for my [...]

For several months now I have been striving to grasp the wonder that is Drupal. To save you a surf to the link, drupal is an open-source CMS. It is incredibly feature rich and flexible. Many high-power bigshot commercial websites are running drupal these days because it is solid, secure, and can bring home the [...]

Saturday June 16, 2007 was one of the best days I can remember having in a long, long time. It started off with waking up early and sleeping in late- while shedding one task and postponing another. It continued with spending high quality time with both my sons. Isaiah and I planned on going to [...]

Well, it’s been a long old time since I have written anything here, hasn’t it? I can think of no better time to try to return to a more impressive regularity like unto that of previous eras and therefore I hereby determine so to do. The reason I have not written anything is not because [...]

Our Saturday started a little earlier than usual. Not as much as planned, but a little bit. Our home town, Alton Illinois, is right on the Missippi River and over the past several years we have been getting a large number of bald eagles coming to spend the winter months in the area. When I [...]

Well, this just might be the year! The year for what? Well, Y’know the year. The year that… uh, that things are… This might be the year that is the year! Perhaps it’s just a reassuring feeling from the type of unavoidable instantaneous snapshot of incremental development I (along with many other people) engage in [...]