Category Archives: Daily

Saturday. Slept in a little, but at ten the Spectrum sales guys rang the doorbell and no one heard them. Then they knocked. So I jumped from bed, got dressed, and raced to the door to see what was wrong just to find out it was peddlers who had been told not to come here […]

Friday, and boy do I need it. I started the day by over sleeping and missing a seven thirty on site meeting in Plano at which I was supposed to be. Not a great way to start the day. I was not even awake until about ten after eight, about an hour and a half […]

Thursday. I was really tired this morning and slept in till around ten. That might sound like six hours of sleep, but it really wasn’t. In reality I am lucky if I got three or four hours of sleep. Dominica got on the road around nine, so the kids were home early in the afternoon […]

Wednesday. Today begins the twenties. One hundred years ago today, the Roaring Twenties began, kicking off nearly a century of iconic “decades” like the world had never seen. Before 1920, the decades preceding it had mostly run together. The 1890s, the 1900s, the 1910s had been largest the same, one after another. The 1910s were […]

Tuesday. The end of the decade. A big day, you only get a change of decade a few times in any life. I don’t really remember celebrating heralding in the 80s or the 90s or even the 10s. The only big one that I remember at all is the millennium change from 1999 to 2000 […]