I’m sitting here just before midnight on a Saturday night waiting for the third period to begin in a college hockey game between Notre Dame and Michigan State. Why? Because that’s my job. I’ve eluded to working on Saturdays before but I’ve never actually mentioned where. I’ve freelanced at ESPNU as a logger since 2005. [...]
Davidson is a small college right here in in Mecklenburg County. And at this moment their men’s basketball team is the cinderalla story of the nation after pulling off three consecutive “upsets” to make it to the Elite Eight. Seeded #10 in their region (which means the tournament committee considered them to be somewhere between [...]
I’m so glad to see that my website just came back online, but I am livid at my website hosting company! All of my websites went down Monday afternoon. An occasional outage should never last more than a couple of hours at most. One came back 24 hours later but all databases were lost so [...]
We went to get new family portraits today. We took a family photo a couple of years ago but that was before Darah. Even better than the photos we got is that in addition to those we bought, they gave us low-rez copies of every photo taken on a disc. Check them out in the [...]
Like Maegan and most other babies, Darah’s first words were “dada”. (You may have assumed “mama” would makes more sense but “d’s” are just an easier sound for babies to make.) But last night Darah said her second word (we think). Darah said “Dack”. Now I know what you’re thinking… what the heck is a [...]
Happy End of Daylight Saving Day. What a perfect time to share this related bit of trivia that I learned just this week: Did you know that it is possible for it to be the exact same time in a state bordering the Atlantic Ocean and a state bordering the Pacific Ocean? Go ahead and [...]
I hope this is just temporary situation but I’m just finding it hard to find the time to post to my blog lately – basically since starting my new job. I didn’t used to blog during work hours at my previous job so that’s not the issue. It’s that I’m rather disconnected from news and [...]
Today was my first day at my new job. I spent the entire morning at an orientation meeting and filling out reams of paperwork (11 different forms needed the same exact information about my family members). Learned fact of the day: There are 128,000 students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system. I finally got to where [...]