New Design… New Content

To anyone who reads this blog which I suspect is little to nil… (Hi to my wife, kids and extended family) you can see that my thoughts have been all over the board and that the content has had little cohesion. For this reason, I have been painfully toying with the idea of a fresh start…

In the coming weeks, you will see a change in the site as I move away from unrelated topics and trying to make the site more than what it really is and will focus on my thoughts and observations… for better or worse. I was somehow surprised when my return emails to folks somehow feel more like my voice than when I sit down to write a post.

So without further ado, out with the old and in with the new! (That was pretty lame). Catch up with my half baked thoughts, ideas and schemes. Thanks as always for stopping by and for taking time out of your day to read my pathetic posts. Especially you google bot’s……

Buying a house sucks

I should probably re-phrase that. Buying a house sucks when you are also trying to sell one! About a month or so ago we placed our home on the market so we could find ourselves a bigger home. While the prospect of actually moving into a new home was exciting, it turns out that it is also long and frustrating. The picture in this post is the house that we are now in the process of buying. It is lovely home with plenty of room for the 3 boys and 2 cats. It is even big enough for the addition of a dog! Read more of this post

Black Crowes are back!

It has been a while since we have been treated to new songs from the Robinson brothers but that all changes with the release of Warpaint.  I have been a Crowes fan since Shake Your Money Maker and this effort is not dissapointing.  There are a number of gems on this album that offer the classic Crowes sound.  Read more of this post

The logic of divorce

So it goes with out saying that divorce is never a good thing however, sometimes a necessity. I have recently been witness to the proceedings of a friend that is coming to a head after 3 years of trying. The thing is this: With a 7 year old hanging in the balance, what kind of hard headed genius does it take to see that dragging things to court, feeding the child with ideas that she hates the father and is scared of him may just in fact have an effect on the child?

Could it be that the wife is a complete nut job this justifying the divorce from the start? In what world does one live in that even after agreeing to someting, you then pick it apart and decide that even the standard boiler plate lingo needs to change in order to move ahead. With literally tens of thousands of dollars in fees over just 3 days passing through the drain, what is to gain by letting your 7 year old bare witness to this type of behavior?
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