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Hey, it’s been a while once again. Life just gets in the way of me staying current with my journal here. My ex-wife called me this morning to tell me that the grandson of our dearest friends of ...

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Good Evening everyone. It’s 7:30 pm here in the deserts of West Texas and I’m at work, but it’s slow right now. Not too much is going on in life on the negative side. Brian and Liz are still ...

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I was just reading on a certain social media site with way to many fluff articles about the world’s worst bosses, and I had to drop in and tell about my wicked witch of the work place. In the 80’...

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It’s very hot here today, I’m hugging the air conditioning vents, lol. That’s not really the point of this post, though. I’ve been speaking to a friend and former co-worker. She just lost her Da...

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It’s 4:12 am as I type this. It has been an extremely slow night at work, and I can’t finish my reports until six a.m., so I thought I would regale you with my thoughts. Except I really have no ...

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I don’t know how far abroad the news traveled, but Texas recently had a prison inmate overpower officers and escape in a hijacked transport bus. The search was centered on a town in central Texa...

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Just a quick entry to keep myself current. I am determined to bore everyone with the minutiae of my life. I don’t know if I mentioned in my previous post, but last October I resigned from the pri...

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It’s been forever since I made an entry and so much has been going on! I lost my account here when my last laptop when up in flames, figuratively speaking and just recovered the account. Let’s se...

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I keep telling myself I’m going to post more, but then fail to do so. I have once again told myself that I’m going to make a concerted effort to keep up with my journaling so I have something to...

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Well, it’s been a long time since I last posted. Lots of changes going on in life, My kids who moved away just moved back in, and they’re expecting their second child, another girl, in about two...

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Hello everyone. Once again despite my best intentions it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Things have been hectic trying to help my son Brian and his family get situated and back into their own h...

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Had a very nice weekend overall for my four days off. Woke up at 3am, put on my best uniform to head to work, feeling well rested, serene, and girded against whatever strife the prison might thro...

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Trying to post more often than I have been. I could claim a busy schedule, but we all know that’s usually only an excuse, lol. Things have been going well here. Brian passed his telecommunicat...

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So, at my job as a correctional officer, one of my frequent duty posts is to drive a patrol car around the perimeter of the facility. Three mornings ago, about 6am, I noticed a young lady who ha...

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Well, as I believed I mentioned previously, Brian, my youngest son is marrying his girlfriend in March. Last week, I found out that Jessica is now engaged to her boyfriend of two years. Jessica...

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As usual, my days off flew by with less accomplished than I hoped. Today is my last of them and there’s laundry, yardwork and grocery shopping on the list, beginning shortly. Yesterday started o...

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I am dying over here. I have a foster daughter, Kelly, who is 37. Shortly after leaving our home twenty years ago, she went to California and met a young man, Chris R., and married him. They s...

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Well, things have been interesting to say the least in the last few weeks. Haven’t said anything until now because I was so agitated I didn’t want to go into it. In late July I took in my deceas...

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We all came through unscathed from Harvey. Brandon got some water in his home but apparently not too bad. Brian on the other hand had quite a bit of water damage Their little rent home was a loss...

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We’re in a lull this morning from the rain, but large portions of our community are under water. Several friends and family members have lost their homes and possessions to the flood waters, so i...

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Lovely weather here on the Gulf Coast this week. I’m high and dry, but I’m trapped in my neighborhood as the roads are flooded. I am currently laughing myself silly at my sons though. They calle...

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Babysitting today. It was last minute when Jillian’s babysitter couldn’t make it and Raina had a doctor’s appointment. They made it home around 11am and I continued to watch so she could run erra...

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Okay, this is different from my usual posts, but here goes. Years ago and before his death but after Mother’s, my father revealed some secrets about my mother’s family. One of my uncles, Ray, and...

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It’s been a little while since my last post. I keep promising myself I’ll be more faithful about keeping up with it, but time seems to slip away without notice. I’ve been working hard to clean ...

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Thought I would upload a couple of photos of our brief trip to the beach. Weather was uncooperative and the water was stirred up and muddy. We soon left and went to the home of my son’s MIL, and ...

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