Entries from January 2009

January 31, 2009

Empty Sandwich

So this is what it looks like when you bite into the peanut butter and jelly sandwich prior to your wife actually putting the PB&J on it.

Pam laughed at me. A lot.

January 11, 2009

And the winner is…

Last night’s party was pretty great. My brother-in-law Joel and I recorded a song for a Christmas song contest at work. We did a new version of “Deck the Halls.” It had a somber twist to it. Basically, it contrasts the super-happy “Fa-La-La” attitude of the Christmas season with the fact that for a lot [...]

January 10, 2009

Party Time

I’m sitting in the dining area at work, taking a late lunch break. People are setting up for our annual “Holiday Gala.” It’s a big party. People get pretty dolled up for it. Right now I’m sitting at a table with a freshly pressed, clean white tablecloth. The salt and pepper shakers are perfectly centered. [...]

January 4, 2009

Memphis

On our way back from Mississippi last week, Pam and I spent New Years Eve in Memphis. We stayed with some friends of ours from college, Mike and Meagan, who recently got married. Meagan was Pam’s maid of honor. Mike is a drummer and works for a record label in Memphis. It was really good to [...]

January 3, 2009

Declaration of Electric Dependence

I had the day off from work a few weeks ago. I had planned to do some recording in the afternoon, but Pam needed the laptop to work on one of her ridiculously long papers for nursing school. So I decided to play a little Xbox 360. I hadn’t played in a while, and thought [...]