Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Since I have had a few episodes of unexplained dizziness and nausea my better half insisted that I have a stress test to check out my heart. Today was the day.
They checked my blood pressure before I climbed on to the machine and it was 119 over 61. That ain’t bad for a 276 pound [...]

If I was a gun nut, I’d name my blog “Chamberin’ Around”.

The college football season officially begins tonight with Mississippi State facing LSU.
I live for this time of year. From now until about mid-January life takes on new meaning. Saturday afternoon I will park myself in front of the big screen and watch Georgia play Oklahoma State. Then I will ride over to Papaw’s and watch [...]

Winnie Langley

here…
says Evans. “Are the chimps aware that they are being tempted by the accumulating candies in the same way that some of us realize that items strategically positioned at the checkout counter tempt us to buy unnecessary goods?”
some of us…

I’ve been way out of the loop the last week or two. Last week was a vacation from work, but with two dentist visits, a trip to the DMV and a host of other little errands, it didn’t seem much like a vacation at all. We did round everybody up for a trip [...]

Common courtesy is really not very common anymore.
I went to see Alison Krause at the Fox Theater in Atlanta on Saturday night and I was amazed by the behavior of some of the folks there.
The show lasted 90 minutes. There was one guy in front of me who left and returned to his seat four [...]

Well it’s weigh day. The 15th day of the month. The one day a month you are guaranteed a post from me.
I weighed in at 276.7 today. That means I have lost a total of 56.3 pounds since January 1st, 2007. Without looking back I think that means I have lost 5.3 pounds since my last [...]

You can believe in stones as long as you don’t throw them at me.
I love this woman. She makes an absolute ass out of the two guys lined up against her. Sometimes I listen to this with my eyes closed just so I can’t read what she is saying. I can only feel the incredible [...]

As promised, here I am, back again this Monday. I’m afraid this will mostly be all about me, and my weekend, and I honestly can’t blame you if you don’t care. I mainly only care about my own. I will say, before I insist my feelings won’t be hurt if you navigate away to [...]