Taking Grandma Out
While most people my age don’t have the luxury of having any of their grandparents, I am still lucky to have my grandmother. She is getting close to ninety but certainly doesn’t act her age. In fact,...
View ArticleBit of a Music Nut
While most of my friends have hobbies, I really only have one thing that is my true love: music. Music has been a passion that I have had since I started piano lessons when I was four years old and...
View ArticleWorking Out in the Shop
I thought that I would test my woodworking skills this morning by working on making a stool for my wife. Her old one broke while I was standing on it and I certainly felt obligated to replace it. So,...
View ArticleSpending Some Time with Friends
One of the things that I really like to do is hang out with my friends. I believe that it is important to spend time with people and not just my computer, so I take whatever opportunity that I have to...
View ArticleGetting Help for a Friend
Like many people, our friend Bill has had some life problems. Instead of dealing with them, he has chosen to turn to drugs and has definitely gone down a slippery slope. But we have decided that we...
View ArticleLooking for an Attorney
One of the things that I never hoped I would run into is needing the services of an attorney. But one of my best friends found himself in a bit of a legal pickle, so I have been trying to find him a...
View ArticleFan of the Piano Guys
If you have ever looked for music on Youtube, chances are that you have heard of the Piano Guys. Thanks to them, my love of music has been rekindled and I have found myself looking in windows of...
View ArticleBecoming US Citizens
We had the opportunity to make some friends last summer down in Mexico, and they have been trying to become US citizens for a long time. In order to help them out with their journey, they have...
View ArticleCelebrating a New Baby
One of the age old traditions in our family is to celebrate the birth of a new baby by handing out great cigars to your buddies. It has been done for a few generations of our family now and it has...
View ArticleGetting New Glasses
I have been wearing the same scratched up glasses for too many years now. It isn’t like I couldn’t go down and get a new prescription for glasses at the optometrist, but I have just been a little too...
View ArticleFound a Replacement Camera at the Last Minute
When Stacey and Michael asked me to fly to London and take pictures of their wedding, I was stoked. I love capturing every moment of a wedding day, and it made it bitter sweet that it was going to be...
View ArticleNot Going to Studio City this Week
Working with real estate across our company sometimes pulls me in different directions at once. The catch is that I am only human and I can’t be in more than place at once. This means that I have to...
View ArticleAlways on Friday
While I had hoped to leave before four today, a phone call that I received around 3 PM stopped that from happening. It turned out that my mother had a little bit of a mishap at her house, and I needed...
View ArticleReading the Saturday Paper
What a lovely day. I have been out of my house all day shopping and drinking coffee. While it feels like I have accomplished some things, it also seems like today has gone by too quickly. In an...
View ArticlePlanning Next Weekend
It is hard to believe this weekend is already just about over. Seems like it has been too few hours away from work, but in less than twenty four hours from now I will be back behind the office doing...
View ArticleVisited my Aunt this Week
While I don’t get a lot of time off from my job, I try to make the most of it. This means that I go on trips for myself, and sometimes I go visit relatives to help them out. That is exactly what I...
View ArticlePicked Up a New Uniform for Work
For the last six months, I have been working as an esthetician at a local salon during evenings and weekends. It has been a good job that has allowed me to focus on my college work during the week and...
View ArticleFixing Broken Windows
Last weekend we had the unfortunate problem of having a baseball go through the windows on our house. Two of them were broken while we were playing ball out in the yard and my wife wasn’t happy. I...
View ArticleRenovating in Arcadia
This week I am working in Arcadia helping a childhood friend of mine finish renovating his home. He has been working on the project for the better part of a year, but he has got to a point where he...
View ArticleBirthday Present for Grandpa
What do you buy a eighty year old man for his birthday? That was the question that had plagued me for the last three months. My grandpa has never forgot any of my birthdays for as long as I can...
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