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THE LITTLE THINGS REALLY MATTER

This past weekend my wife was sick with some kind of 24 hour bug. I was glad to see her resting for a change, but not under the circumstances. I purchased the soup and juice needed to combat any sickness and plowed her with acetaminophen to keep the fever down. I am also a self [...]

DEV & I STILL TALK, BUT THE TOPICS SURE HAVE CHANGED!

p>Yesterday I was sitting in the kitchen with my laptop, my wife was at the stove cookin’ up some Cajun shrimp and Dev was hanging around. Well, he was closer than I thought…
“Daddy, who’s Jennifer?” He was looking over my shoulder as I checked the Facebook folder in my email. Jennifer was part of a [...]

COMPUTERS IN DAD’S DAY & DEV’S DAY

I remember when I was approximately Dev’s age and computers were huge, often not in color and required floppy disks that were actually floppy. I can see clearly in my mind the old-school CRT monitors and the lousy pixilation with the constantly blinking DOS cursor. Clunky keyboards were common and I’m pretty sure there was [...]