I don’t do this often, at least publicly, but pardon me for a moment while I have a mental moment. I can almost physically feel the “snapping” sensation in my mind right this second, so I’ll get it out in verbage rather than just go shoot something because well, hell, I’m out of  bullets at the moment. [...]

Zephyra’s Story: Update 5/12/2012: I added a few pictures today to the Facebook album. They’re watermarked “Zephyra – Day Seven” so you’ll know which ones they are. They’re the last seven photos in the album.  Overall Zephyra is coming along very nicely. Many of her stitches are coming out on their own. Some others she’s [...]

Like so many other things I think will just disappear into obscurity, I’ve refrained from mentioning this because I assumed the powers-that-be would realize the ridiculousness of this argument and simply drop it. Apparently that’s not going to happen, so I’d like to speak up, and I think you all should too. In case you [...]

  It seems I’m destined to be in the news again, though this time hopefully the story will be more complete and less full of controversy and I’ll be in like-minded company… maybe. A few weeks ago a film crew and producers from ABC’s  20/20 came to visit; spending two and a half days to [...]

I feel like I’ve told this story a hundred times already. That’s because in reality I guess I have. I’ve been building wooden toy trains for a couple years now, based on the trains my grandparents made for me when I was a child. One day I started puttering around in the shop, looked up [...]

I’m posting this to see if there’s anyone out there that has come up with a work-around for this problem. Facebook, as per the norm, has been unresponsive to numerous bug requests, instead referring users to the same regurgitated page that has nothing to do with the problem. Problem: Can’t Adjust Privacy of Facebook Groups [...]

How to Sell…. anything. I’m writing this post as a response to something someone posted in a peer-group I’m a member of. I started to compose this as an email and decided halfway through to re-write it as a blog post and share it with you. Maybe you’ll find it of interest and maybe you [...]

As a small business owner, a person who loves to just “be” on the internet, an author, a partner in a new web-venture, and a remote managed services provider; life is busy. The more I do, the more I have to do to maintain it. Even deciding which blog to post this on was a [...]

This is my challenge to OMJ Stanly County! As a founding member of OMJ and a moderator of the largest OMJ group anywhere, I think WE can show the other counties across the state what it means to come together in a very small little way to help people who need it. Collectively we have [...]

Well, it’s been an interesting few weeks and I’ve had little time to myself to make any recent posts that weren’t motivated by some other factor besides just wanting to write, so I’m doing that this morning. Today is day one in the newest chapter of our lives up here in Stanly County. I got [...]

My friends sometimes harp on me for picking on other companies who try to stretch their services over into my vertical market; most commonly telephone company employees, your Internet Service Provider’s employees, and most often electricians. For the record, I don’t do the same to them. If you have an electrical question more complicated than [...]

  Preface: The original title of this post was “Troy Bilt Warranty: Bravo or Bull?” I started writing this letter today to send to the respective companies, and to post here on my blog. What started out as pure disappointment and frustration with two companies however turned into stunned amazement at the level of customer [...]

This is my letter to Congress, the President of the United States, my senator, governor, mayor, police chief, and neighbor: WHAT ARE WE AS A NATION, THINKING? Today it comes out in national news that since Republicans and Democrats can’t come to a decision about what to do about our debt ceiling, we’re going to [...]

First and foremost, let me preface this blog entry with the fact that these are my own personal opinions. I own a variety of guns and have hundreds of friends who each have their own reason that theirs is the best. If you’re a gun-nut, militia-enthusiast, or have your own set of white sheets hidden [...]

I received an email from Frankie’s owners, asking me to post this to the blog. It say much better than I can how they feel and their thoughts. I told them I’d share it here with everyone. “It is times like this when words are just not enough. There are so many thoughts going through [...]

I know this is the tenth year of the Scooby Pig Pickin’ and it’s late notice but I’ve got a major update for everyone for this year’s pig pickin. We’re not “cancelling” the pig pickin’ but we are going to move the date to a time as yet to be determined. Why? Well there are [...]

This post won’t seem strange years down the road, but on the heels of my last series of posts it seems depressingly repetitive in the extreme. My partner Tim and I have been working together since 2004. We’ve worked at two different companies together, literally travelled the world together on projects, and had each other’s [...]

Here are some pictures of Frankie taken today at the clinic when we went in to check on her. Stay tuned for more info on the main blog post. You can read the whole story on Frankie by clicking here.  

Update 6/13/2011: This post has been updated from the original: Scroll to the bottom to see the interview. Since we have had so much worldwide interest in Frankie and so many hundreds of questions about her continued progress we thought of a neat idea to address them all! Tonight I’m going to do a recorded [...]

This is a continuation of our Help Bear Creek Vet Save Frankie the Foal post series, so if you’re not caught up on what’s been going on, check out the main post first. Frankie was visited by a friend who happens to be a published author and professional photographer the other day at the clinic. [...]