News from Hico

Decent little story on my favorite player, save maybe Zach Thomas. I was at Jones Stadium when Wes Welker set the NCAA record for punt retur...

Star-Telegram: IRVING — A fire Thursday night destroyed dozens of packages of frozen chicken at Trinity Valley food. The fire started in a n...

My wife sent me this: The VaJoe.com Presidential Campaign calculator. I went through it, the questions mostly seeming somewhat relevant. And...

With addendum. I don’t make it a habit to drop in on the Abilene Reporter-News web site, but sometimes I just get a feeling that I need to v...

Before Christmas, we ran this adorable photo of Sam for a greeting. My wife said it took a lot of work. I was messing around, going through ...

For my combined Christmas-birthday present this year, my wife gave me a pizza stone. Ever since I quit working at Central Market, I've w...

Brought to my attention by Alicia. Actually, I wanted to write a little more on the Flippin deal and respond to Dave, but here's some ju...

Last week began the self-immolation of my own body fat, and it was a miserable three days. Right now I'm on break. The perfect time to d...

Perry Flippin was a longtime columnist for the San Angelo Standard-Times . I read the first three paragraphs of many of his articles. (Sorry...

My wife is sitting on the floor with Sam, during "tummy time", a kind of learning activity thing that the books say we should be d...

After two weeks, finally got back to the Denton Record-Chronicle to work a couple of shifts. I agreed to fill in part-time after I left. Fin...

Chuck Norris understands the ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heh. I read the book and still can't be sure.

Hello. It’s been something like 87 days since I last posted. Didn’t mean to take this long of a break, but I’ve kinda just spent the last th...

Just to let folks know. I'm finishing up my last shift at work now, and will otherwise be too busy with holiday things soon to post. See...

Merry Christmas to all, may your holidays be charmed, My wife said if I didn't post this, she'd cause bodily harm.

Jackson and New Line reach an agreement to produce The Hobbit. Yep, I'm already jumping on one foot to the other in anticipation. I don...

Granola chick lives in a log cabin with a little baby coyote and her cat. Won't be so cute once the pup decides to cash in all of Morris...

You're not going to take it. At least not in the 12 ounce size. Friend at work passed this on. Funniest thing I've heard this month....

It’s now official at work, so I’m passing on the news here. I’m quitting my job. (Don’t say "Again?") I’ve had some good times at ...

On Friday, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed what I think is the terminal article on a feature about, yes, pets and weight loss. A coupl...