First, let me tell you it has been a long time since the wild blackberries were this plump! I had to stop by my folk’s house this evening and pick some. I stopped by the store on my way home and grabbed some cream too. Perfect way to top off a nice warm June evening.

I think I have the site laid out like I want it now. I’ve spent over three hours working out glitches and getting the gallery up. Over the next few days I will move the photos from flickr to my gallery, and begin inserting captions.

I’m also getting some great ideas for the podcast, so that should be coming soon as well!

As you can see, I’ve been spending some time trying to whip my site into shape. After three hours of experimenting with wordpress code, this is as far as I’ve gotten. If any of you have any expertise in this area, I would certainly appreciate all the help I can get.

One of my favorite things to do is play guitar with my kids. Even if my guitar is totally out of tune and I sing through my nose, to them I’m a rock star.

When you are playing with your kids, you don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.

An hermetic switch is a switch sealed in an airtight container. Hermetic Switch is a very successful company in Oklahoma. They make switches small enough for a pacemaker and advanced enough for top tier military aircraft. But we are talking about an “Hermitic” switch.

I spend most of my day going around trying to smile and fit in with people that I really have nothing in common with other than our work. Don’t get me wrong. Many of the people I work with have become dear friends during my tenure. But when I get home, I begin to shut down. I have a little office that used to be a laundry room where I go and play on my computer or draw or whatever. It’s cramped and cluttered and desperately needs cleaning. Maybe I’ll do that someday, but not today. This is where I go and hide away from the rest of the world. My friends and family continuously want to “do” something when I really just want to escape everything. I think I could do very well under some forgotten bridge, charging toll to whomever happens to wander over it. I wonder if that’s how Ted Kaczinski felt.

Maybe I should get out more…

Have you ever noticed how much of our lives are on lists? Grocery lists, to-do lists (honey-do lists), wish lists, things to do before I die lists…

I have always told my children that sometimes you can’t do the things you want to do because you’re busy doing the things you have to do.

My list of want-to’s is much shorter than my list of have-to’s. Shouldn’t I do that list first and get it out of the way?