Howdy, boys and girls, and welcome back to another delightfully stress-filled attempt at National Blog Posting Month. I first gave NaBloPoMo a shot two years ago, and found that it A) wasn’t actually too bad and B) kind of bumped up my readership numbers a bit. I successfully finished the November NaBloPoMo again in 2008,… Read More 1. a month of agony — with prizes!
One year ago today, I arrived at our new house in Pittsburgh, to spend the night for the first time. We had completed a nasty three-day stretch where we moved pretty much everything from our apartment in Butler to the new place, making the drive on Route 68 to I-79 to the Parkway North more… Read More home (plus 365).
There are times when it is advantageous to live in Florida. If Mrs. Crappy and I make it down to my sister’s new house in Naples this spring — when the weather in Pittsburgh is struggling to do anything but be rainy and cold — I’ll be happy to remind you about that. There are… Read More fall for a floridian.
Seventeen years ago — give or take a couple weeks — I was walking through the offices of the student paper at OU when I noticed the new GA writer, the one with glasses and long hair. Whoa. Ten years ago today, the new girl and I got married. When I found Mrs. Crappy all… Read More ten.
It’s not unusual for me to open Google Reader while at work, to check out feeds from other news outlets in the area and, yes, to see what my blogging friends have been up to. On May 10, I noticed a new item had popped up in the feed for Have a Good Sandwich, Mike… Read More need a sandwich.
Act One: With a couple of notable exceptions — the new bridge to Parkersburg that cuts as much as a half-hour from the trip and the new Baker Center looming over the lower end of Court Street — the 2009 Athens is very much like the 1995 Athens. Or the 1985 Athens. A late April… Read More homecoming.
Uncle Crappy 