Archive for 'Delusions'

Leave of Absence…

Holy Kaw has it been a while since I posted anything. Well, not as long as its been since Getting Gruntled posted anything worth reading, but all the same its been a while. I was on “vacation” last week, really, I was stuck at home watching the kiddos as Day Care was on vacation. It [...]

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And now, for something totally and completely unrelated…

Oh, and Visit, The Bloggess  

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Don’t Leave Me…

With the Babies! (luckily, those are not all my kids… I only have three and only one is an actual baby) Coming up in about two weeks, Amy is heading to Vegas for a couple of days for the Heritage Makers conference leaving me all alone with the girls and the dogs for the weekend. [...]

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Save the Boobies!

Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are amazing tools. Sites like Classmates have been around for ever, but Facebook and the rest have made it even easier to connect with people you haven’t talked to in years. I’m friends with about 1/3 of the Graduating class of 1996 from Harrison High School on facebook. Its let me [...]

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Off to catch the Bus!

G has been riding the bus all week to school. It was perhaps, the one thing she looked most forward to going in to Kindergarten this year, riding the school bus. I don’t remember how I felt about it in Kindergarten, I was 5. That was 25 years ago now… but I don’t think I [...]

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Old School Nintendo

We’ve been working over the past month on transforming our basement from the mess of boxes that it was from when we moved to a usable “family” room. The dropped ceiling is fixed, the walls have been painted, new carpet is going in… The crap that was junking the room has been thrown away, given [...]

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Kindergarten…

We past a hard milestone this morning in the realm of parenting… we had our first Open House at a big kid school today. G (who turns 6 in October) will be entering the world of Kindergarten on Monday (she’s 4 in the photo…). It seems like it was just the other day that Amy [...]

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A letter to the Marietta City Council #fb

Here’s a little background… Yesterday evening, the Marietta City Council voted to ban smoking in the city square which is a public park. While I don’t particularly like ciggarett smoke, it doesn’t bother me when people do it in an open space such as A PARK. What does bother me is the fact that the [...]

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What’s all the fuss about? #mj

Seriously, whats all the fuss about? I get that the man was one of the best selling artists of all time (though, I’m proud of the fact that I do not a single album of his, however my wife does). I also get that his videos were the coolest of their time. With out “Thriller” [...]

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5 twitter tools to make life more fun?

One of the cool things about having an open API like Twitter’s (and somewhat facebooks) is that you get a ton of cool and useful apps (websites) that can help you do everything from manage followers to search better to Assassinate Unhinged Industrialists. One of the bad things about having an open API like Twitter’s [...]

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