In the category of things that would make me shake if I couldn’t have it:

Caffeine - Coffee (black), green tea, or yerba mate being the preferred delivery method
Internet
Camera
iPod
The love of a good woman (the woman, in this case, being my wife)

And in the category of things that might cause me to whine a little if […]

Imagine you are home alone on a quiet Sunday afternoon. You go into your kitchen to investigate a trickling sound only to find sheets of brown water cascading from your kitchen ceiling. Ah, yes. Now imagine that this is days before Thanksgiving. Days before you are about to start a new job. […]

I promised myself I wouldn’t write one of those “sorry I haven’t written” posts, but here it is.
It’s been an interesting summer. I was doing very well until I experienced something that took the wind right out of my sails. It’s not worth going into detail here. But while the rational […]

A vacation where you end up more exhausted than when you started isn’t a real vacation.  It’s an ordeal.  But toss in the largest comic book convention of all time and a red-eye return flight with two already overstimulated kids? That’s what you call a gauntlet.
Yesterday I spent the day trying to catch up on […]