My brain is moving in circles around images like this:     It’s not good, especially since my brain should be moving in circles around thoughts about networking cables and databases and fixing problems that appeared after software upgrades.  Ugh.

For once, the term awake isn’t referring to something I wish I would be in the morning.  Nope, this time it’s about my garden (and gardens in most places around this time of year). If you wanted to be polite, you could describe my 2010 effort at gardening as “novice.”   I pulled off some ridiculously…

Last week (which was so sad and empty on my blog) was full and happy in real life.  After a few days of work, I took off on an adventure in Colorado as planned with Scott, a few of our mutual friends from this area, and some of his friends from college.   I don’t…

I’m a firm believer in the fact that your embarrassing stories will come out at some point, so you might as well tell them preemptively.  In honor of that belief and the fact that I’m going to Colorado this afternoon on a trip that involves skiing, I’m going to tell you my best ski story….

Well, Texas was just as wonderful as expected.  Could it really be anything else? One of the surprise highlights was going to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo with one of my college roommates and her fiancée (and Scott, of course).  I knew the four of us were going to hang out on Saturday, but…

I got my dog at a shelter nearly three and a half years ago.  This is the picture that made me fall in love with him: Because he’s a shelter dog, I worry every time I leave him at the kennel that he’ll think he’s being abandoned again. Now, you have to know my dog…