Posts from — November 2009

Children are part of life. If you are married they could be the reason to stay married, or the reason you don’t stay married. They are the picture of courage, and you should be required to have just a little bit of training just to have them. Children are creatures that start out little, wind up big, and will always be your children. Their title in life will always be “son” or “daughter” to the parents, and friends of parents. They are the life blood and the death knell. And they are loved in my house. [Read more →]

Difficult times, and the Holiday season make a very stressful time. I remember other times when we have had times like these and we have always come through them. This time I am sure will be no different, however getting through the holiday season is rough. [Read more →]

I can now see some advantages to allowing kids to play video games.  The speed with which one must recognise a target, and find the button to shoot the target, then shoot the target and hit the target, is amazing.  All on an XBox 360.  [Read more →]

I was listening to a CD yesterday and while it was supposed to be instructional, it seems that he was just beating me up.  He was talking about what makes people not achieve their goals.  [Read more →]

I promised more on the Celtic Fest, so here it is.  [Read more →]

The site you need to visit for the whole story is:
“www.minisandfriends.org” [Read more →]

I told you about my journey to get home on Saturday, after the Festival, but I didn’t give you much info about the Fest itself. [Read more →]

On Saturday we went to the annual Celtic Festival in Austin Texas. It is not like this is some incredible journey, we do live here in Austin after all. However on Saturday this 7 mile journey took nearly an hour to get back at the end of the day. When we left home around 8AM we got on I-35, went south for about 3 or 4 minutes, then finished up in the park about 15 minutes after we had left the house. [Read more →]

Why do we have “Veterans Day”? The 20^th centruy was a century of Wars. The Great War, now referred to as World War I, was supposed to be the “war to end all wars”. There were more, but that is not the purpose of this post. [Read more →]

Congress has fixed healthcare.  The new legislation is quite amazing in it simplicity, and I don’t know why we have not thought of this before now.  We are now going to be legally obligated to buy health insurance.  If you are an employer, you must provide health insurance to your employees. [Read more →]