My Life

A Roll In The Hay

“One of the most embarrassing things I ever did was…” …get caught with my pants down in the barn. By the stable manager. While I was participating in my own private rodeo. With my Cowboy Of The Month (COTM). I was at the barn, hanging out with my stubborn Appaloosa,…

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10 New Uses For Used Dryer Sheets

With the prices of everything under the sun rising at a rate that would put the old space shuttle to shame, I have been looking for ways to make my dollar stretch further than a thong on a hippo. This includes switching our nightly dinner menu from Prime Rib and…

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The French Foreign Legion

What I imagined it would be like. “When I was younger I tried…” …to run away and join the French Foreign Legion. It was my senior year in high school and I honestly had no freakin’ idea what I wanted to do when I graduated. I had been offered a…

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9 Great Excuses for Burning Dinner

Have you ever spent the whole day sitting around in your jammies, watching tv, eating junk food, playing online, and/or chatting then lost all track of time only to realize that the perfect dinner you were preparing is now so far gone even the neighborhood stray dogs would turn up…

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Latch Key Husband – FAIL

At least mine isn’t this bad. My cellphone sang its happy little ukulele tune at 7:05am this morning. Just as I was falling back asleep from my benevolent benefactor’s morning stampede ritual before departing for work. With one eye closed, I flipped the phone open and looked at the caller…

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Mad Cow Strikes Back

Source: deviantart.net So, according to the US Department of Agriculture, the single case of Mad Cow disease in California was a “one-off mutation” that was discovered by accident because “the cow in question had died at one of the area’s hundreds of local dairies, but exhibited no typical outward signs…

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How To Have A Really Bad Day

Have you ever had one of those days when you woke up after a wonderful nights’ sleep and thought to yourself, “Man, today is going to be a GREAT day” only to have it turn to complete and utter caca before your very eyes? And no matter how hard you…

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Compulsively Passionate

I am very passionate about… There are many things I’m passionate about. Some moral. Some ethical. Some legal. Others are fun. A few are not so fun and boarder on maddening. And some that don’t fall into any of the above; it depends on your definitions. But what exactly does…

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Talking To Llamas

My best friend, Myral, is a llama. Ok, not a gangly, wooly, lick your forehead kinda llama (although, on a dare, she’d probably lick you). I nicknamed her ‘llama’ a couple of years ago when she was telling me about a particularly weird night at Mandalay Bay where she worked…

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