When the Smoke Clears

The guy was young, big, but not overly muscled, just a natural size that comes from hard work and good genetics. His girlfriend sat quietly across from him, pretty, but not beautiful. She’s lucky.
She was young enough that the curse of beauty would not affect her. The scars and emotional impact of being a [...]

That’s the only word for what just happened. While I had to miss a great blog-meet with old friends, ending up in the DC area, I did have a 100% guy’s day yesterday.
After getting up late, my friends here and I went for a run. Then we watched football and grabbed some lunch that [...]

As a kid, I grew up in central Georgia and Florida. I think that’s why I always loved the cold, moist night air of the mountains when we’d visit my great-grandmother in western Virginia. Even in the summer time, the nights would chill, humidity bubbling up from the stream. The fall was even better, giving [...]

Main rule for me: If there is comedy involved, it’s not an insult.
Follow-up on that rule: It has to actually be funny.
So, when I say
The only good goat is a compliant goat
I am joking.
Stop judging me.

One of my very favorite magazines is Clinical Evidence whenever I can get my hands on it. Total nerdiness. I don’t understand everything within, but it’s a fascinating with lots of review of materials that overturn aspects of medicine that were presumed to have been working. Quinine is proven effective for reducing night time leg-cramps. [...]

One of my young elites hurt me yesterday. Oh it was not a physical blow; that would have been much easier to take. Nay, this was emotional.
With the exception of the year and the last line, I heard from my young one the echo of a conversation from many many years ago when one [...]

So drill was last weekend. That’s where I’ve been.
Okay, not exactly.
See, there are some additional schools I need to attend for the Army. I had reservations. One takes me away in December, but once accepted into it, I get put into another school in front of it. Normally.
But I’d not received the [...]

Just needed a little ‘Keb Mo’ tonight.

It’s good to see you, too. The house you picked is nice.
HOWEVER, installing new floodlights pointing outwards all around your porch and creating a glow in the sky like a strip-mine on 24-hour operations does not really work on this part of the mountain. If you are THAT uncomfortable living way out in the [...]

Just a good morning to all, today. Another good night sleeping since I can sleep with the windows open to let in the night chill. The lowest level of the cabin is always a little cooler than the rest of the house, and when the mountain traps in the cold air, well, it can make [...]