Lord of the Castle

I was going to cheat today… Today marks the 3 year anniversary that our Midwest adventure began. So, I thought I would just copy and paste my notes from one of my family history files… Except I couldn’t find any! Anywhere! So, back to work… Three years ago today, after 30 hours in our F150 Super Crew [...]

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I love it when I am proven right. Well, not always… When I give my children advice and they don’t take it, I REALLY do not like being proven right. But I have to confess that it feels pretty good when a disinterested third party confirms something that I have been saying for quite awhile, [...]

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I had my latest “humility sandwich” handed to me today. After work, I hustled over to the police supply store. As I waited for them to look at my flashlight, I perused the store. It was like entering a parallel universe! About 50 different handguns at the counter… fully automatic weapons behind it… displays of various [...]

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Since I can’t figure out what is wrong with my two police style flashlights, I decided to expose my ignorance and ask for help. I took them to work and asked a friend to look at it. He couldn’t figure it out. The bulb was good… He put it in his own new batteries…still nothing. [...]

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We went from VERY cold to WOW cold today! When I woke up at 5:00 A.M., the temperature was 6º! When I went out to warm up my car for the morning drive to work at 6:00, it was 2º! As I was walking out the door, I decided that I should do the manly [...]

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I was listening to a radio show today and heard Marcus Lutrell, a Navy seal, say this: “When you look in the mirror, bottom line is you are one of two people. You either call 911 or you are 911.” I have never heard that view of life but it’s a good one. I want [...]

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You would think that a mirror is a mirror. They reflect the image in front of them. You would think by their construction (a piece of glass placed on top of a shiny reflective surface) that they should be the same. But, people don’t always think so. Women are constantly complaining that some mirrors make [...]

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Every so often, our family runs into logistical challenges that strongly resemble the word problems we had in high school algebra… We have three vehicles here at the Castle: a 1998 Honda Accord, a 2001 Ford F-150 Super Crew and a 1979 F150 that gets 13 MPG! The Lord’s wife had to catch a plane this morning in [...]

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(I originally wrote this on June 18th. A certain unnamed party persuaded a permanently biased judge to issue a temporary injunction against its publication. The legal wrangling has finally ended and the banned post can now be made public) I don’t have the greatest set of social skills. I tend to be too honest. I [...]

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Time continues to move swiftly. Fargo is now just two weeks away. This week, my son had a change in his training schedule so he has been taking me to work and heading directly to the morning practice. He comes back and we eat lunch together. This morning, my wife gave each of us a [...]

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