When I was about 9 years old I was sure I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. this one time, in the backyard, I had successfully mediated an argument between two friends. This meant, of course, that I should be...a psychologist! Me, the semi-robotic, whose in-laws still struggle to get me after … Continue reading What Do You Want to Be?
You know what I always hated when I was younger? People that were older than me telling me how the world really works. Telling me that I was too young to fully understand things and that it would all make sense when I was older. Well at 40 years old, I'm here to tell you twenty-somethings … Continue reading Don’t Worry About Regrets
Is it normal to have lived for 40 full years and not be sure if you’ve led an interesting life? When I tell the highlights of my years so far, they seem interesting; I was born in Germany to American parents and flew to the States when I was only 10 days old. My brothers … Continue reading Childhood and the Art of Adventure
If you've ever read about or examined the most well-known equation in science you'll know why, for now, there is no way we will ever travel at the speed of light. If you're not familiar with the work of Einstein I'll summarize. E=mc^2 states the equivalency of mass and energy. In English, this equation says … Continue reading A View of the Future: How We Will Travel at Light Speed
I decided that I wanted to have all my various blog posts from around the internet combined into a single site. For a while you'll be seeing some posts that are no longer relevant. I'll post them under the original post date and hope it works. Edit: It worked, and except for accidentally flooding facebook … Continue reading Combining my old blogs
When I was just out of high school I had decided that the best career track for me would be aviation maintenance, so I enrolled in Wichita Area Technical College's Aviation Maintenance Technician program. During my second year an ex-Navy sailor joined our class. He was in his mid forties, skinny, average height, with long, … Continue reading The Most Bizarre Person I've Ever Met
Did you ever have one of those days that, just before you got out of bed, you were having a really lucid dream that pulled some strong emotional cords, and throughout the rest of the day you're stuck in the dreamland, remembering the emotions and feel of that world? I'm having one of those today. … Continue reading Stuck in Dreamland
The other night I was laying in bed, lost in memories of what it was like to be a kid in elementary school. Remember those days? I remember how the last day of school felt. How the excitement of the pending summer break was barely contained inside your chest, threatening to burst its way in … Continue reading Remembering Summer as a Kid
2, 5, 7, 10, 15, 18, 20!, 22!!, 25!!!, 20, 14, 6, arrggh! Anyone who has spent years trying to lose weight recognizes the above mathematical series (I believe it's called the Sonofabitch Series, so named by famous mathematician Clark "Triple Cheese" Berger). For me the latest round started about two weeks ago. We had … Continue reading That’s One Slippery Wagon!
I'm a fat guy. I haven't been a fat guy my whole life, but after years of dedicated junk food consumption, I've managed to get into excellent shape...round. I met my wife (AndreaLand in my blogroll) almost exactly three years ago, and she had problems with my eating habits almost right away. Over the years … Continue reading Diet and Exercise, Who Knew?
A New Old Dad 