Archive for February, 2009

Growing Up

Having kids is a tricky deal.  When I was a kid, I used to do a lot of stuff for fun, like run around at the pool, play around on the bulldozer and gravel screening machine at the construction site down the street, stay out at the park after dark-all of them against my parents [...]

Airsoft replacing paintball as the new age American pastime

If you have not yet taken notice of the newest revolution, then you might want to do it. While paintball has probably been the dominating force as of late, this looks like it is about to change. People are looking for something a little bit different, while still being able to run around and play [...]

I Hate Shakespeare!

I really do.  I wish the dead man would just stay dead, and everyone would stop wanting to read all his plays.  He’s confusing and convoluted, and I do not think that when he was writing it he thought he was writing the most vaulted poetry of all time.  I think he just wrote whatever [...]

So Close, Yet So Far Away

I’ve been fantasizing about owning a boat for years.  I had finally worn my wife down into agreeing in September, and we said we’d go boat shopping this winter so that we could have a ready vessel come Spring time.  Then, of course, the economy tanked, and my visions of Mercury outboard parts and crisp [...]

Analyzing the real estate market at large

If you were to look across the United States in search of a great place to live, you might find some alarming trends. Some places in the country are growing, while others are shriveling up more quickly than a grape in the sun. Those raisins are finding it hard to survive for a very simple [...]