Well, it’s my birthday on November the 13th.  I always find myself looking to the past when my birthday rolls around. I was born in 1973. I personally have never really looked into the events of my birth year so I thought I would research a bit and share my findings.  Turns out it was a rather amazing year and not just because I was born.  Here is the list of factoids I discovered. Some of my favorite movies were released in...

    September was the 7th month of the year if you were a Roman until about 153 BC.  Thats where it gets its name as Septim is the Latim word for “Seven”.  September has never been a particularly interesting month to me so I thought I would use all this massive spare time I seem to have (laughs) and do some digging to see I couldn’t make it just a bit more fun.  Here are some unusual things that I...

    Went on a one day one night tour of St. Louis this past weekend.  It was a long drive but a friend of mine actually did the driving.  It’s an interesting story so I’ll share it with you. I feel like sharing.     Jamie Palsgrove used to be a coworker friend of mine at TeamDesign.  He moved on to another job but we have kept in touch and still hang out.  We were tossing the idea around before he left of doing a quick...

    It is quickly approaching my 17 year wedding anniversary in June.  I just wanted to jot down some of the things I have learned in the last 17 years with my wonderful wife Laura.  -          You cannot make your spouse happy.  You can be supportive and loving but ultimately nothing you do can force your loved ones to be happy when they really aren’t. -          You have to treat your spouse with all the respect...

    Well this is going to be short but I just wanted to rant a bit about how cable companies in general always seem to give you the shaft.  My particular story goes like this.  I bought an HD TV a year ago.  I immediately wanted the DVR to go with it.  Worked out great, all except my bill ended up going up 50 bucks a month.  I was able to eat that for a year but now I need to scale back.     I decided to return the DVR and just...

   Well for those of you that live in a cave or that just returned from your years long trip to and from Mars, the United States so called ” National Day of Prayer” is May the 6th.  I am a member of a group here in TN called Secualr Life and the founder of that group, Thaddeus Shwartz was asked by the Nashville Tennesseean Newspaper for his thoughts on the subject.  I post his response verbatim here as I agree with this...