The Grass is Never Greener

I've lived a pretty uninteresting life, story-wise. I couldn't regale you with tales of riding on car hoods, or getting drunk and breaking into some place. I've never been drunk, never even touched a drug, and married the same woman that was my first kiss. The one stupid thing I did in my life, happened the night before my wedding shower....

Ripped from the Headlines

A brisk October morning in New York City. The elevator door opens on the 17th floor of a swanky apartment complex. Out steps Chip Dipson, detective extraordinaire. His rich brown, sturdy, leather dress shoes clap on the thinner-then-paper carpeted hallway floor. His perfectly creased black pants and the ends of his tan trench coat,...

DEVO was Right

DEVO was Right is a regular post in which I will give absolute, without a doubt proof that we are in fact de-evolving. We are growing more stupid everyday. What is wrong with the world today? Everything in this column is wrong.For my first ever DEVO was Right, I'm going to post some videos that say it all much better then I ever could. These...

A Profile in Pictures

I made this profile of sorts for a video game site I frequent. Thought I might as well post it here. I like to call it a profile in pictures.He REALLY likes video games.And music.His birthday is September 8th, and he is 23 years old.He lives in Michigan.The first thing he remembers wanting to be was an astronaut.Then an inventor.Then a writer.When...

The Proverbial Stick Up Your Ass

What has become of our beloved society? It used to be that people treated each other with kindness and respect. Nowadays it seems everyone has a stick up their ass and is looking to cuss out the first person they see in order to make themselves feel better.I started a new paper route this Monday. When starting a route, the first day or two...

Burning Bridges

Dear You-Know-Who,Our situation has not yet come to a conclusion. Things need to be said, and so I'm going to say them here. I am not sending this to you directly because it is not about you, it is about me. I'm tired of thinking about it and I want to be done with it, so I will say what I need to say now. If you truly care at all about what...

Emmy 18 Month/Family Pictures

Emmy just turned a year and a half, so we went to get new family pictures as well as ones of just her. Thought I'd make a slideshow of some of them and post it here. Theres one of them that we call the "Hulk picture". See if you can guess which one it ...

Finding My Place in the Gaming World: Is There a Place for an Arcade Today?

This is sort of the journal entry of a soul searching individual. You see, I have no idea what I should do with the rest of my life as far as a job goes. I'm happily married, and have a beautiful daughter, but keeping the bills paid has become more and more an exercise in repetition. It's come to the point that I've decided I need to find...

Getting in Shape

In case you don't follow the blog I started with several other people, the one about various forms of geeky media like video games and movies, I thought I'd post this here. I've been attempting to lose weight for over 30 days now, by playing the recently released EA Sports Active game for the Wii. This is my 30th day post, involving my...

Random Updates

I haven't updated here in a long time so here are some random tidbits. Unfortunately since our external hard drive has crapped out with all of our stuff on it we have no room to unload recent pictures, so I can't post any.Emmy has grown extremely fond of the word "no", and says it for pretty much everything. When you try to give her a kiss...

Story

I wrote this story quite awhile ago. I've always been interested in paranormal stuff so it figures I'd choose to write about that. I'm also fascinated by biblical type stories even though I don't believe in god, so it doesn't really mean anything. I would like to see something someday though, help me decide what I believe. Anyway, this story...

Sappy

So, this is going to be extremely sappy. It might be because I've been up all night, but I feel like saying it.Since high school, I've had no clue at all what I want to do with my life. I've gone back and forth trying to decide what degree I should be working toward and what career I should pursue. Luckily though, I found the woman I love...

2 Years

Today is mine and Zoe's 2 year anniversary. Seems crazy that it's been that long. Feels like it was just yesterday. I'm a lucky guy to have found the perfect woman so early in my life, and I look forward to many more years with her. Now I should go make her breakfast or something before she wakes up....

More Emmy Dancing

The band Fake Problems said that they wanted videos of babys dancing to their music. So I figured that would be a good follow up to my previous video of her dancing. Unfortunately she wasn't very into it and wouldn't stand up and dance like she usually does now because she was more intrigued by the ipod. Either way, here's the video that result...

The Cyclical Nature of Life

As suspected, my previous route in Ionia was essentially removed. I always thought I was immune to any talk of restructuring the routes because they would always go to the stores. I guess I never thought about them putting the stores on another route.I wasn't abandoned though. I was offered one of the routes that they made out of all the...

Joining the Breadline

The Grand Rapids Press is in the process of restructuring the routes in Ionia. I thought for sure that I would come out of this unscathed as I do all the stores in town and they wouldn't cut those out, but I was told a little while ago that that may not be the case. They are cutting out the foot routes in the town and combing them all into...

Home Sweet Home Pt. 2

So, they didn't accept. First, they never called well past the 7 days they were supposed to call in however and no matter how many people I called there was no way to contact them directly. Then they finally called today and asked if we would go to $35000. Thats quite a steep jump from 20. We weren't going up any though, as we can't really....

Home Sweet Home

I don't know a whole lot of this home purchasing stuff. Lots of terms and such that I don't fully understand, but as it stands we're working very hard to secure this house for our own. It went up for auction at the beginning of the week and we were the high bidders with the low low price of 20k. The house is definitely worth that, the...

Emmy is Gangsta!

You have to start them on good music as early as possible. She was around 8 months here. She actually stops screaming in the car when I turn off the kids music and put on mc chris or They Might Be Gian...