Category Archives: Family

I’ll Be Here All Week Folks

That’s right. I will be landing in Nashville tonight and I will not be leaving for at least 8 days. Can you believe it?!?
Whenever I am home for a week I have so much to do. I maintain a Honey Do list that seems to have as many items as I have [...]

Web Applications that Improve Quality of Life

I am only interested in using web applications that have the possibility of improving my quality of life. That sounds like a high bar, but everything else is just a distraction. So what is the most recent example of a web applications that has improved my quality of life?
dopplr. There are things [...]

Walking with a limp

Man, paralysis sucks. I am so glad to see that Kevin Everett will likely walk again. I can relate to what his family is going through.
One week after I started 7th grade my mother was in a car accident and broke her neck. The doctors said she would likely never walk again. [...]

He Looks Smarter Now

Zavier’s first day of school was today. Sabrina and I took him and dropped him off. It was a very cool scene at Lockland Design Center today. I am hoping to write lots more about the experience, public education in Nashville, Invest In your Child, equality, parental involvement, SSA, and other issues [...]

Starting School

On Monday, my oldest son will go to his first day of kindergarten. This brings up a ton of thoughts and emotions for me.
As you may or may not know, I got a great education in public schools in Nashville even if my tenure resulted in my dropping out and getting a GED. [...]

Two Lives

This morning my lovely wife made a passing comment about being jealous of my “two lives”. In the midst of the drudgery of constant travel and never being caught-up on housework, it feels like one never-ending, constantly on, energy draining life. Actually, it doesn’t feel like I am doing much living at all.
Truth [...]

Update on my Legal Woes

At this time I am going to keep my cards close to my chest. The reason is that currently I am not named in the lawsuit. If the suit progresses against me, and not John Doe, then there will be many updates and plenty of free flowing information.
Hopefully that day will never come. [...]

Big Scary Company Trying to Sue Me For Something I Did Not Do

So, the other day I received a copy of a subpoena from a web-company that I do business with. Apparently they received a subpoena for my contact information because of a link to my page on their service from a blog I have never seen before in my life. Apparently, the company that [...]

I Need Your Support

When I was just a wee lad, my maternal Grandfather (Henry Shipp) died from ALS (also known as Lou Gehrigs disease). It had been a long, painful battle with a very confusing and painful disease. That was in 1979 (I think).
In many ways ALS is one of the diseases that modern medicine has [...]

Birth Blogging

5:00 AM We have arrived at the hospital. Sabrina’s water broke at about 3:00 AM. We are going to have our 4th son today.
6:00 AM Getting all settled in. The Pitocin has been started.
6:05 AM I am pretty sure Sabrina will be pissed if I actually live-blog the birth. Updates may [...]