The ides of summer are upon me.

Another month.... more miles. Here has been my schedule since June 1st:

San Angelo to Brookesmith... oops... replacement switch broke.... my bad
Brookesmith to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Brookesmith... oops wrong switch ordered. their bad.
Brookesmith to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Winters.
Winters to San angelo.
San Angelo to Ozona.
Ozona to Mertzon
Mertzon to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Novice.
Novice to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Sonora.
Sonora to 10 miles outside of Eldorado. (rember that trip to Ozona? Somebody forgot to reset their trip to keep up w/ the gas mileage because his gauge doesn't work. Then he forgot to check adjust for that first forgetfulness. Thanks to SheaPo for the hookup. My bad.)
10 miles outside of Eldorado to San Angelo.
San Angelo back to sonora.
San Angelo to Coleman.
Coleman to Paint Rock.
Paint Rock to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Zephyr.
Zephyr to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Brookesmith. Replacement switch functions works and is G2G. Peace. I'm out.
Brookesmith to San Angelo.
San Angelo to Ozona...
And Ozona back to San Angelo

I'm wiped. I knew my job would require this sort of travel... but i'm tired of the road. My boss has made a lot of these trips with me so I can't complain too much... but this would explain my lack of blogging.






It's been hectic. It seems like at least 2 times a week i'm leaving before my wife and son are awake and not getting home till it's almost time to go to sleep.

Jen does a great job of making my home a home when i do get back though. She's such an awesome mother and wife and I'm lucky to have her to come home to. If I can just convince her that her and football can coexist peacefully all would be well ;)

Some recent events:

My good buddy, Jay Scott made a champtastic return to San Angelo a couple of weeks ago. Good to see the guy. He is enjoying florida but was glad to come back. He and I enjoyed pipes and cigars till about 1 in the morning catching up and talking about old times. Excellent stuff. He's got a girl these days and I'm proud of him.

And he bought me a steak for A&M/Duke's BBall season bet. The bet was that A&M would have a better year than Duke. I am not foolish enough to think this wasn't a fluke. It was. And I fully expect Duke to return to former glory and A&M to move to upper of the pack in big XII play.

We got to go on a mini-vacation last week to Abilene... Not that impressive... but what can you do when you have no vacation days your first year on a job? We had a great time. We ate big... Watched a movie... stayed up late. You know... young crazy newlywed stuff!!

Transformers rocked. FYI. Go see it. Be a little kid again.




The whole time we still missed the little guy. It seemed like everywhere we went we still saw babies and they sounded and looked a lot like Jackson. It was tough on Jen but she braved through it. We definitely enjoyed our time together.

The only rough patch of the vacation was when Jen decided to cut her hair. She has gone quite a while and let the hair get to about the middle of her back. Now. I think my wife is gorgeous no matter how you slice it... but I prefer it short. She looks good when it's like that. So she's walking through the mall and is tempted to go cut it. I play devil's advocate. Do it Do it Do it Do it. She agrees. I'm stoked. We're aiming about shoulder length. go in for the hair cut... Lady cuts it to shoulder length. Jen approves and the girl gets to doing the whole layering thing. By the time it's done we're well above shoulder length by about 3 inches. I'm a fan of the hair... but it definitely was not what Jen asked for. It's taken a bit but she's gotten used to the hair and is cool w/ it for the most part. I think it looks great. And she gets compliments out the wazoo about it.

We went out and ate steaks that night went to bed. Woke up... had breakfast... skipped church.



Yes. Skipped church.
I am now back on the slow boat.
You're shocked... I know. I am too.



We thought about going to Beltway (Chandler's old church) or visiting Southside (Blake's church) but decided to heck w/ it... We're going to the zoo!!! We had a really good time there as well. I haven't been to the Abilene zoo in probably 12 years and forgot about how much cool crap they have there. I made jen walk through the snake house and she did it. Atta girl.

We finally went and picked up some Bueno (If you're a top Taco Bueno exec and are reading this... come back to San Angelo... we miss you. I promise I'll eat there at least once every two weeks.) and Jackson. I could tell he missed us.

Hopefully things will be settling down for me in times coming up.


I'm about to start reading some books again. My saturdays have been packed w/ other things so my chances to read have been slowed considerably. I have one by MacArthur coming up as well as another CS Lewis afterwards.


I hope your all well. And I love you guys... God Bless.