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Archives for the ‘personal’ Category

I can’t sleep

By john • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: indiana beach, personal

It’s about 2 am and I can’t sleep. I’ve been told by my wife that normally I go to lay down and I’m out for the night. I’ve never doubted her, after all I’ve only awaken a few times when she’s been breast feeding or changing the diaper of our three month old.
So why is [...]



In Indiana (for now)

By john • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: indiana, personal

The trip or rather the move to Indiana has happened. Even the Mustang has made it’s way up to join us. For our sake the expected 21.5 hours of driving lasted just 23 hours and all arrived safe.
The job hunt up here has already started and unfortunately it’s not going so great to start but [...]



The trip begins today

By john • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: personal, texas

It’s about 4:30 here in Texas. It’s already hours past when I had hoped to be leaving for our move to Indiana but alas with just a few things to wipe down and just a couple of things to put into the car the trip is about to begin.
Unlike our previous trips we will head [...]



The stress of moving

By john • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: indiana, moving, personal, texas

Excuse me there’s no where else for this to go so I’ll have to write it here.
The move from Texas to Indiana has not been an easy one. Heck as of me writing this we are still in Texas and considering the car isn’t loaded up and I still have some minor cleaning to do [...]



What would possesses a cat to do such a thing?

By john • May 28th, 2008 • Category: cats, personal

It’s become a daily thing. Using the microwave to cook some popcorn and dumping it into a big plastic bowl so I could eat it.
As always I put the bowl by the sink on my way to bed. This morning when I woke up I smelled the stench of urine emanating from my bowl and [...]



Baby CJ in the hospital

By john • May 21st, 2008 • Category: christian john, personal

The last two days have been a tad hectic for us. About five days ago our son began vomiting after each feeding. The issue appeared to be getting better by Monday but later that night it happened again and into Tuesday morning.
According to the doctors at North Central Baptist Hospital he has Pyloric Stenosis. There [...]



The Beer Fairy visits

By john • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: air force, personal

Last night my nosy neighbor across the street had a little visitor.
Known for drinking and rambling that goes on and on we’ve often made a habit of checking out the front door before making a break for the car.
His beer of choice is Lone Star, I bet he loves that watered down piss water. Either [...]



Mets looking to keep Register

By john • Mar 27th, 2008 • Category: ding dong texas, new york mets, personal, steven register

Steven Register has cleared waivers as the New York Mets attempt to work out a trade with the Colorado Rockies that would allow the team to keep the middle reliever and place him in the minors.
Register who was drafted by the Rockies in 2004 was selected by the Mets in the minor league portion of [...]



So my mom is going to Opening Night…

By john • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: nationals park, opening day 2008, personal, washington nationals

My mom called me today to see how things were going. We talked about different things ranging from the new additions to where we used to live to dinner. Of course the big topic of discussion is the baby on the way. (scheduled March 31-April 3)
She also told me that she had tickets and was [...]



Domo, Hot Topic and Dirt Track Racing

By john • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: domo-kun, hot topic, i-37 raceway, personal

They say a picture can say a thousand words. I say Domo-Kun can say a thousand expressions. Is he angry, upset, excited, frustrated, taking a dumb or just waiting for his tv show to start?
It’s been around since the time of masturbation and the killing of kittens but Domo appears to be having a second wave of late. Hot [...]



A few things that I hate about blogs

By john • Mar 8th, 2008 • Category: personal

There are thousands of blogs out there. People want to write down their opinion on everything and hope others read it. They write about anything from food to muisc to celeberties to trying to buy a wii at Wal-Mart but there are a few things that really piss me off about a good number of the [...]



I can’t believe it’s March

By john • Mar 1st, 2008 • Category: personal

February is a short month but I can’t begin to describe how quickly it went by this year. It seems like just a few days ago the Giants were upsetting the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I was celebrating a birthday and we were talking about how our little bundle of joy was due at [...]



It’s February 4, 2008

By john • Feb 4th, 2008 • Category: happy birthday, new england patriots, new york giants, personal, tom brady

It’s been a pretty crazy day. After all it’s my birthday, things are getting fixed in my house and well last night’s big Super Bowl upset. Anyway

since it is my birthday and well I’m feeling pretty good about myself after losing 8
pounds in the last month I’ve decieded to post a few photos taken yesterday.
Here’s [...]



I can’t believe it’s almost February…

By john • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: personal

It’s Sunday and while there are no NFL games today there is change abound. This marks the last time I work on the weekend shift. At first I was not welcoming a month that required me to work on Saturday and Sunday for 12 hours but after some split shifts and a three day weekend [...]



Laundry, Wakamatsu and randomness

By john • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: don wakamatsu, personal, ron washington, texas rangers

The Oakland A’s picked up Don Wakamatsu from the Rangers. Last season Wakamatsu moved to being a third base coach after new manager and idiot Ron Washington picked Art Howe as bench coach. Maybe he felt threatened from the guy he was competiting against for the Rangers managing act. Either way Wakamatsu is gone and [...]