Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

My younger daughter is spending her first night in a Big Girl Bed.
Last night it was like there was a conspiracy to keep me from sleeping. First Cuervo snuck upstairs and started delicately eating kitten food from the bag. Then Maddie decided she was Mad as Hell and Not Going to [...]

The elm tree in the back yard is already starting to turn color and drop leaves. It seems like signs of the impending season change come earlier every year. It’s hard to believe in autumn and winter when it’s 94 degrees outside. I wonder if a temperature drop will come early this [...]

I’m all signed up for Journalcon 2003, and confirmed as a panelist in the session titled “Niches and Hoes: Specialty Web Sites”. When I went to the Programming page to see if my name was there, I saw that I was a moderator. Zoinks! Sure enough, that’s what I was asked to [...]

A couple of weeks ago I had posted a desperate cry for help in locating a forum about immersive gaming. Someone pointed me in the right direction a couple of days later. What I was seeking is called Alternate Reality Gaming, or ARG.
A couple of years ago when the movie A.I. came out, [...]

What SWAT hand signals really mean.
Money’s gonna get strange this fall. You have been warned.
For the person who has everything, a kangaroo scrotum to hang from a car.
Isn’t Larry Flynt special?
Saddam as you’ve never seen him before.

I’ve posted about my migraines recently. Lately they’re out of control. I’ve been getting incapacitating headaches around 2 times a week now. It used to be that I would get them twice a year. I’ve tried all of the new migraine drugs - frova, zomig, imitrex, relpax; the old reliable that [...]

This is reprinted from the Austin Flashmob mailing list, with permission from the author.
Greetings mobbers. Please forgive any and all grammar and spelling blunders. It’s late. Last Friday, I awoke to find three men at my apartment’s front door. Not just men - detectives with the Austin Police Department, badges in [...]

Does anyone have experience with Austin nursing homes? Who to avoid, who’s good, who’s depressing, who’s cheerful? I’d appreciate any comments you have to offer.
I’ve been looking through the Nursing Home Ratings in Texas and it’s just depressing. There are degrees of bad things nursing homes can do. “Actual harm with [...]

Today we headed north of town to a gun range, where we met up with a bunch of people and shot guns all day. We got to the range around 10:30 and stayed until they closed at 5. Luckily we brought a canopy for shade, since there wasn’t a shelter in sight and [...]

I just got an email from Jette of Celluloid Eyes, who is on the committee for Austin Journalcon ‘03. She asked if I would be a panelist. I’m dumbfounded and really honored. I’d love to be a panelist, but just this afternoon we scheduled that weekend to go to the ranch. [...]