Progressive Odyssey

If you go to the home page of the iTunes Music Store and look at the list of the current top-selling songs you’ll see (at the time of this w...

A little over a week ago I was spending my Friday off doing work on the house. (Truth be told, this is how I have been spending a lot of my...

I recently re-discovered books on tape (well, CD) (well, iPod) and have been listening to a few instead of the normal slew of podcasts that ...

I struck up a conversation with a co-worker the other day who I found out had immigrated from Iran when he was 18. He literally escaped the...

Katie and I saw "Live Free or Die Hard" last night and it is the best completely non-redeeming movie I've seen in a while. Thi...

Shortly before a doctor's appointment this morning I stopped by Target to get a welcome-back-home-from-a-boring-business-trip gift for m...

On Friday Katie purchased two new showersheads for the house. Both the previous units, were, uhmm, unsatisfactory. The shower in the maste...

Thanks to a very helpful hardware store sales assistant and the grace of God, I was able to get the dishwasher up and running last night. I...

I spent all of Sunday afternoon and evening trying to get our new dishwasher installed. Three connections: electrical, drain water, and hot ...

Thanks to the efforts of a dozen or so of our friends, our transplant from a rental to our new home went very well. Faster than I would hav...

My absence here for the past few weeks has a legitimate excuse this time (unlike many other multi-week breaks): my wife and I are closing on...

This evening I will walk into the downtown branch of the Wichita Public Library, plunk down one shiny quarter, and receive a two week loan o...

For the entire time I have worked at Cessna (2.5 years), I have had a wimpy computer. For whatever reason, when I started I was given a com...

This past weekend Katie and I went down to Oklahoma to be present for a unique ceremony; Katie's father was being inducted into his hig...

I knew this was going to be a different visit to the dental office when the good doctor told his assist, “Can you go get the diagonal bit fo...

"Bridezilla." I heard an interview with a gal in the midst of planning her own wedding use this term. Her definition was simple: ...

There’s no two ways about it; I’m fat. By any measure I can think of, any website I check, any “authority” I can dream up, I’m overweight. ...

For the first time since my back injury, I bicycled into work today. Well, that's not quite true. This past Sunday I did a trial run i...

My scooter was blown over by the wind during the work day and dented a car parked next to it. I left a note for the owner but haven't h...

This morning, in the middle of church, the tornado sirens went off. One of the church security guys quickly ducked out out of the service t...