Sentence of Dave

  It nearly killed me (and Shakespeare is to blame . . . too many things happen in this section of the play), but I have finally finished my...

I was midway through Jane Harper's fantastic (and very grim) Australian thriller The Dry  when I realized the Libby Kindle loan had expi...

I took my last personal day today, and it's been a pretty good day, pretty pretty good . . . I walked the dog-- no barkin', no smog-...

I went out and had a couple of beers for the first half of the Knicks game last night-- 3 dollar Miller Lights at our local bar!-- then I wa...

Today, after a soupy day at school, I went to the YMCA pool to swim laps, and I would like to say "I came, I swam, I conquered," b...

Our principal sat my friend and colleague Stacey down at the prom and asked her if I was returning to teach next year or if I was perhaps se...

I heard an excellent Built to Spill  song a couple of weeks ago on my buddy Whitney's radio show, and since then, I've been playing ...

No rest for the wicked today (or the good, as my wife got a lot of shit done as well) but I went to bed early last night; awoke early; finis...

The end of my plumbing saga is both disheartening and instructive-- I called my buddy the plumber on Friday afternoon, and he had just gott...

Today was a weird half-day at school-- it's prom night, but the powers-that-be also thought it would be a great day for the After the Fi...

I'm not sure how Dave Martsch's indie project/band "Built to Spill" flew under my radar for so many years-- but I am enjoy...

I went to Home Depot, bought some threaded tape and gaskets, hooked everything up, twisted a bunch of knobs, tightened some shit, and then g...

I did some work on the sink today, but I'm stuck on step five (of sixteen?) because I need to go to Home Depot and buy some rubber gaske...

Over the past few days, I've been killing it with the lies and half-truths-- essentially refraining from saying my actual opinion: on Sa...

I reffed five matches this weekend (well, actually I got paid to ref five matches, but one match was a forfeit . . . ) and I now consider my...

Though the sink calleth, this seems more like a Sunday afternoon job.

It's finally Friday of an oddball week-- we had Monday off for Memorial Day; I went to school Tuesday, but there weren't many studen...

This morning, I thanked my wife for cleaning out the fridge-- I get nervous and overwhelmed when there's too much stuff inside it, and I...

I had to do some light demolition and use some heavy profanity, but I figured out how to remove a vanity and sink with a broken faucet from ...

The Ten Year Affair  by Eron Somers is not for everyone-- as with many books that I like, the Goodreads reviews are split--  which I find a ...