Category Archives: News

It was a nice several days off to celebrate our 10th anniversary and my 45th birthday. I have a ton of posts to put up. I jointly decided to take it easy along with the errands I had to get completed. … Continue reading →

My fellow Leo and friend of the last 20 years via Dynamic Graphics celebrated this Saturday. We even got to talk on the phone for a little bit! This year I managed to keep up the lion-themed gifts with some … Continue reading →

I had my blood drawn and whizzed in a jar a couple weeks ago because it had been over 90 days since the physical. If you recall, both contained bad trends: possible kidney failure and type two diabetes. The latter I … Continue reading →

The Star Wars-based goodies we sent to Switzerland for the little dude’s fifth birthday was a hit. Lucas drew a picture to let us know how much he loved the Lego Star Wars sticker book, Ray Park autograph and Darth Maul watch … Continue reading →

The recently dubbed new and improved Mrs. Derr celebrates her birthday today. She says she shares it with Patrick Stewart. I’ll go with that. I do know it’s also David X Cohen’s (the co-developer/showrunner of Futurama for the uninitiated). Hope she … Continue reading →

I don’t really have an axe to grind with them. Honda’s web site was well organized and easy to use when it came to making our car payments which we no longer have as of today! We paid off the … Continue reading →

You think Central Texas is hot and unbearable, my friend here is celebrating his birthday in his adopted home of Phoenix. Texas has nothing on Arizona. I got him a really cool card this year, now to confirm his address. … Continue reading →

Due to the first half of the year being plagued with illness, I was really behind the proverbial eightball with my exercise as June began. So I took a more aggressive push with running and attending. Before I knew it, … Continue reading →

I think ever since I was invited to his birthday party 10 years ago, which occurred on the 30th, I continue to mistake his birthday as then, it’s really the 29th. It still slipped my mind anyway. Fear not, he’s my … Continue reading →

A project that was over five years in the procrastinating after I made the shift from Blojsom to WordPress. There was no easy way to convert so I undertook the tedious process of literally copying and pasting the text in. It … Continue reading →

Yesterday was 19 years of marriage for Tammy and Nelson. I clearly remember the weekend in Milwaukee too because whenever I hear someone complain about how damn hot it is here, I quickly have flashbacks of how cold I was. … Continue reading →

Our friends Kristin and Jeremy got the results from their sonogram a few days ago. As the headline states, the baby due in November will be male. Obviously Somara and I are gathering up ideas on clothes, toys, etc. for … Continue reading →

Today’s three-mile run got me to my brother’s house. Not bad, what is usually a four-hour flight followed by an hour of driving (Brian lives near O’Hare) took me two years and five months. Last week’s health screening re-affirmed my … Continue reading →