The Bushrod Chronicles

Realization

bushrod — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:01:37 +0000

So I read about Four Square and it sounded pretty neat… Then amigo Steve started using it and it looked pretty cool… So I loaded it and have “checked in” at a couple of places over the last few days… The unfortunate and somewhat sad realizations that I’ve been hit with are that a) no one gives a shit where I am and b) there’s no one that I particularly want to inform of my whereabouts… Sigh… Would’ve been great to have ten years ago though…

Thank You Music

bushrod — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:18:20 +0000

Significantly challenged this morning for a host of reasons. On the drive into work, however, I was treated to Hot ‘Lanta by the Allman Brothers and a cover of I Fought the Law by Mike Ness of Social Distortion. Perspective regained, some sense of balance restored, on with the day. I love music. And I really dig XM Radio.

Best.Fort.Ever.

bushrod — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:07:31 +0000

Not really I guess but the kiddos and I built a spiffy lil’ refuge and macaroni & cheese-eria today whilst love-of -my-life K was doing a little extra work (boo)…

7 Months in About 100 Words & a Couple of Pictures

bushrod — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:16 +0000

So since the start of my most recent bloggin’ hiatus…

Kenzie turned 7… wicked…

Christmas came and went… ’twas good…

The snow (which sucks and I hate) eventually went away… I was happy…

Love-of-my-life Karen and I celebrated our wedding anniversary (#8 – butter statues!!!)

The World Cup happened… everyone here flies flags… this was mine…

The World Cup ended… I was sad…

School ended for the year… “woot” said the kiddos upon successfully completing grade two and senior kindergarten & escaping for the summer…

Which pretty much brings us up to date…

And I’ve just been informed that #8 is actually traditionally bronze or pottery… thanks honey for not making a fuss in front of all those people when I presented you with your statue…

El Blog

bushrod — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:56:55 +0000

So Bora, my amigo and former cube-farm neighbo(u)r (as apposed to half of the Leeward isle) recently wrote a blog post in which he mentioned something we discussed at work…

This prompted me to a) read that post and b) read a few more which in turn further prompted me to a) subscribe to Bora’s blog as it’s downright spiffy and b) revisit writing a few words here again from time to time…

Indeed… the historical record seems to suggest I take a 3-6 month hiatus from posting here every now and then .. and I think the most recent one may be over… or maybe not – time will tell I suppose… there’s something that I find immensely… I dunno… “aligning” is probably the best word… about dumping my thoughts here regularly that isn’t satisfied by yer facebooks and yer Twitters, the two things that have supplanted this place as a repository for my thoughts…

Word

Happy B-Day Son

bushrod — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:06:31 +0000

Today is Tugboat’s birthday… he’s five… time flies…

Advertising is Cool…

bushrod — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:03:08 +0000

Saw this whilst driving around the other day… “Septic Dreams… where all your fecal dreams come true…”

License plate is SEPTIC 1…

Rock on…

We Got Another One

bushrod — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:14:41 +0000

Presenting Sandy… our latest allergy bag family member… she’s cute, huh???…

And So Long Miro

bushrod — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:19:40 +0000

What a drag… less than a week after our pal Miranda left us her long time amiga Mira has also passed away… Miro was cool… the epitome of the cat “I’ll acknowledge you and you can say “hi” and pet me when I damn well please” ethos… she’ll be missed…

An awful week for pets in our house… Koda’s looking over her shoulder and wondering what’s next…

Pictures

bushrod — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:43:42 +0000

So I decided to take today off and turn this upcoming three day weekend into a whoppin’ four day affair… and what better way to start the day than with a nice long bike ride through our awesome local trail network???… i was out later than usual and noticed that the sun was just right to make the lighting in each section of the forest just awesome for pictures… like a twat i was without a camera…

Which got me thinking about taking pictures in general… I really like taking pictures but rarely ever do… odd, huh???… so i decided that I’m gonna pack a camera along with me a often as i can from now on and snap away… which i did when I took the dog for a walk post bike ride… and along the way we found this flower… it’s glow-y…