Happy New Year! For those of you wondering why I’m prolifically blogging today instead of being on a 26-hour hell ride back to Vietnam, I changed my flight around a little bit.  I had originally booked my flight back as a round trip returning to the U.S. on June 1, 2008.  But after thinking about [...]

While I’m posting YouTube clips, I feel compelled to post this one that McGehee’s son, Hugh, showed me. I can’t decide if it’s funny and disturbing or just disturbing, but I’ve watched it about five times. The song that begins at 5:47 is what brings it all together, but it’s better if you watch the [...]

I’ve never seen the HBO show “Flight of the Conchords,” but this YouTube clip Travis showed me is funny as hell: If you want me toI could hang ’round with youIf I only knewThat’s what you’re into.You and himHim and youIf that’s whatYou’re intoHim hanging ’roundAround youYou’re hanging ’roundYeah, you’re there too.And if you want [...]

I quit working as an attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency in February 2003.  On my last day, as I was carrying all of my stuff out of my office and out to my car, a security guard stopped me in the lobby as I tried to carry my computer monitor out of the building.  [...]

This is the invitation for the garden and tool wedding shower we had for Dave C. and Jamie when they got married back in 2003: And, for good measure, here’s one more of Dave C. bonding with Sasquatch: Jamie, me, David at Whistler, B.C., 2004: One more from India, 1996.  I have no recollection of [...]

In 1996, a credit card account I had was sold from my local bank in Tacoma, Washington, to a bank in Columbus, Georgia.  Once the account was sold, I had a bunch of problems with the bank in Georgia charging me late fees when I had not been late on my payment, etc., so I [...]

In 1996, some of my law school friends and I played a prank on a few of our fellow students.  Lewis & Clark is known primarily for its environmental law program, and as a result a lot of environmentalist activist types attended the law school.  My friends and I found many of them to be [...]

In 1997, I sent this mock Firm Bio out as my Christmas card.  I was working for the law firm Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim in Seattle, Washington at the time.  It’s pretty much self-explanatory.  If you click on either of the individual pages below, you should be taken to a larger PDF [...]

My friend Caroline and I have always laughed about how some people abuse quotation marks and all-caps, so when I stopped at a Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits in Alabama on the way back from Mississippi last week and saw this, I had to snap a quick photo with my iPhone. I am very confused.  Is [...]

I’m about to take off from Asheville. Above are Travis, Suwannee, Indio, and Katie. Here they are crazy stylee: Mr. Hanky, Indio, and Suwannee: