When I was in 5th grade my father left his job with Honeywell in Denver and bought a local bike shop. After school I’d walk down to the shop and help out doing things like fixing flats and putting together the new bikes. Stuff that the other guys didn’t necessarily want to do. After we’d [...]

The typical blog runs through a typical cycle. It begins with the, “hi, my name is blah-blah-blah and I’m not sure how this blog thing works but I’m going to give it a shot,” first post. That is followed by a steep upward trend in number of posts and words per post until [...]

I’ve spent a considerable amount of time over the last few weeks paying vigilant attention to what I do during the day in an effort to uncover what might be sucking up my time and preventing me from being more productive at work and at home. Wanna take a wild stab at guessing where too [...]

It’s not often that I hear the sound of clapping in my bedroom.  It’s not that nothing worth clapping for ever happens in there, but . . .
Let me start over.  I woke up to the sound of clapping on the 4th.  The entire family was sleeping in so that we’d be rested for a [...]