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This is late. I’ve noticed that having a newborn lengthens your recovery times from holidays and special events. Keep that in mind when you ...

Cute for exactly two days, 14 hours and 15 minutes.

So, if you're like me, you have an oddly-houred day at work followed by several exhaustive trips all over the damn state. And you're...

wahoo!

It’s been two months, but the birth of my son got in the way of me completing this post – and some other stuff. I wanted to get this down be...

The Lights Come On. I noticed on Sunday that Sam’s eyes were tracking the living room lamp as I took him to bed. (Where he’d immediately sta...

That I'm not really posting much as these last two weeks have sucked. How so? Let me count the ways ... (I'm counting inside my head...

Sam had two outfits. I understand he needed both of them before the night was over. We had something like five trick-or-treaters. My wife w...

Wow. 'Battlestar Galactica' of the Sci Fi Channel, in partnership with Microsoft, will unspool a special two-hour episode of "B...

I just tore through the third season. The storylines -- completely unpredictable. The characters -- deeply flawed, honorable, allowed to sta...

I post this with nervous coughing and several throat clearings. Basically safe for work. Basically. Found on Ace of Spades.

The thought hit me after seeing the Raiders of Red go down like a big thing going down against Colorado on Saturday. Texas Tech football: No...

I feel like ... Ah, what the hell. I feel like any number of fans of several thousand teams who believe that this season, things are going g...

Lajitas was a village next door to Big Bend National Park, until some rich dude decided to buy it in 2000. The guy, one Steve Smith , bought...

I was caught Thursday in the most awesome traffic delay ever. Driving up I-35W on the trip to work. I glanced up and noticed some dots in th...

And a few other notes ... (Warning, lots of spoilers. Also a warning that if you don't watch Friday Night Lights, this first part will b...

About 15 days of posts in a handy condensed version. It's 5 a.m., I'm just going to go through these until Sam wakes up or I finally...

Not that he actually did any walking. Mainly for him it was sleeping and using his diaper. Maybe I should call this, "Sam does everythi...

Haven't had much time to blog lately. Don't have time to post now, only Grandma's demands for more baby pics were starting to bo...

Soon to be making his first Hico appearance: As we've been walking zombies for the past three days, I won't go on long here other t...