Hi. This is my luck – both good and bad. During my trip back to North Carolina my rear, driver’s side tire literally exploded. I have no idea what happened. I was doing 75mph, as was most traffic, and then all of a sudden I hear this soft ‘whirring’ sound. I was on the phone […]

Yeah, yeah. So I cribbed a lyric from Pearl Jam. Big whoop. Contrary to some of your best wishes, I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth and get smothered by a bunch of worms. Or blond women in bikinis. Damn. I would pay good money for that last part. Really. I’m now here […]

Countdown to departure has started. I’m leaving this weekend for North Carolina and I start the new job on Monday. Yeesh. The entire ‘scrape-together-a-place-to-stay’ thing is a real pain. Luckily, I found an apartment that will allow me and my pooches to live together. Another lucky nugget: it will be about 15 minutes from where […]

Ah, yes. Apartment hunting. I have been apartment hunting a grand total of 5 times: Moving out of the dorms in college Choosing a new apartment during college my senior year Leaving my sister’s townhouse in Northern Va. to live with my future ex-wife Finding a larger apartment with my future ex-wife Weird time after […]

First things first: I’d like to say that I’m terribly upset and worried that Richard Hammond from Top Gear is in the hospital. Top Gear is one of the only television shows that I enjoy watching. Go and figure that it is only shown in England. Haven’t seen an episode? Check it out on YouTube […]

Logistics, logistics. Angela and I are mulling over relocation alternatives should one of us land a job in North Carolina. Right now, I’m probably closer than she is to landing a job there what with the numerous nibbles on my resume and the various interviews I’ve been to. Since I’ve had the joy of going […]

Angela hates that I’m always ahead of the curve on neat things. Why? I dunno. Maybe it has something to do with me rubbing it in her face that I usually hear about or see the cool things before her. Here is a list of some of the cool stuff that I just have to […]

Today was the day of my bi-annual tea party. Yeah, yeah. I know. A lot of you will probably think ‘What kind of fruity poof is this guy?’. I’ll admit, the first time that I conjured up the idea of doing it I thought it was somewhat effeminate, too. Here’s one of my first posts […]

It all started with an innocent thought – I think I’ll call home. I hadn’t spoken to my parents for over a week so I was pretty much due to pick up the phone and give them a holler. At the same time I was cooking dinner on our new stove while Angela was putting […]

“You got the cups in the front, two loops in the back. All right, I guess that’s about it.” – Frank Costanza Last night, Angela and I watched the Redskins/Cowboys game. To be honest, we sort of watched it – she was busy doing some stuff for work while sitting on the couch and I […]

Mother of God. Yesterday we lost our DSL connection. There have been times in the past when our connectivity went kaput but yesterday was a pretty good wake-up call to an alarming situation: I can’t get along well without my internet connection. In the past I thought that I couldn’t get by without television and […]

Note: The following is to be posted at DET but, unfortunately, I’m locked out of the publishing component. 1987. U2 released “The Joshua Tree” and they were exploding all across the world. I remember when they were about to sell concert tickets back home in Norfolk, VA. The tickets were being sold at a place […]

I’ve been married for a few years now. Hell, if you count the first marriage I’ve been in the institution of marriage for almost a decade. Being the mate of someone for a while brings out the most interesting facets of yourself. Both of you learn from each other’s experiences and wealth of knowledge. In […]

Note: The following was originally posted at D:ET but, for the life of me, the frontpage keeps changing and you probably couldn’t even find it there unless you started digging around. Grrrrrrrrr. Many of the posts that I drop on that site are pieces that I normally would have put on this site. Unless things […]

Shut up. Shut up shut up shut up. I know there are going to be a good number of you who will look at me like I’m a complete and utter boob and that I probably got what was coming to me. For that, I give you the pre-emptive “Shut up” and smack of my […]

There they go – teens and twentysomethings packing up their cars to head back to university; little kids deciding what kind of lined notebook paper to get (regular or *college rule*?!) and back packs. It is that time of the year again: Back to school. It rolls around every year around Labor Day and whenever […]

Thigh… Tho, Angela hath been gone thince Thunday to a conferenth in Florida. That left me home alone to fend for mythelf. Thith ithn’t tho bad. Exthept for one thmall problem. I’m a bonehead. We haven’t been grothery thopping for a while tho the kitchen wath pretty barren. Rodenth and roacheth were bringing food in. […]

Today was the day that I got to head down to North Carolina and face Johnny Law for the speeding ticket that I got last month. I was caught doing 73 in a 55 mph zone. Ugh. I had visions of being shackeled, having to put on one of those orange prison suits and be […]

Angela took off to Mongomery, Alabama, yesterday. I dropped her off at the airport at 5:30am because of all the security checks that people need to go through. Her flight didn’t leave until 8am but everyone is showing up much earlier to be herded through the poking, prodding and x-raying. That left me and the […]

So, I’m tossing around the idea of running advertising on designkitty. Why? Why not? I’m curious. I have a few other projects that are interested in using Google AdSense so I may as well use my own blog as a proving ground. My question to you is this: Will you be annoyed with it? I’m […]

My poor pooch. For those of you don’t know Farley dog is my dog. I’ve had him since he was 12 weeks old and just a little lump of pup. Now he’s creeping up on 9 years. I brought him to the vet on Saturday and got some pretty bad news: the pooch has Lyme […]

I love owning heyitcouldbeworse.com. I really do and I’m really happy with the number and type of readers that I get. However, there were two situations this weekend which made me sit down and think about the whole thing. My sister won’t read my site. I found this absolutely fascinating. While celebrating my father’s birthday […]

Angela and I were watching the first episode of an anime called ‘Rec’ yesterday. The plot summary is as follows: Matsumaru was stood up by a girl whom he had asked to go out with him. When he was trying to throw away the movie tickets, a girl blamed him for wasting the tickets. So, […]

People wrestle with demons every day. Turn on your television during the morning or afternoon and countless shows, most starting with the word “Judge” or containing the word “Court” depict people who fight some type of personal demon. There are liars, thieves, drug addicts and other ne’er do wells. I’ve been wrestling with a demon […]

Man, I haven’t updated this sucker in over a week. Who knew that time would fly by so quickly?? Let’s play catch up and then I’ll update this in two days. 😉 Beautiful Women & Musical Tastes I’ll admit that I don’t have the best taste in music. I’ll listen to almost anything but, when […]

This past weekend started out simple enough. It wasn’t until Angela & I were playing with Tobey on the bed that things went awry. We were wrestling with both Tobey and Farley having a grand old time – kicking, screaming, tickling, biting (yes, I’ve bitten my dogs). And then, if a flurry of body parts, […]

Oh, ho…looky, looky. We have a teen perusing my mental vomit! In response to my post “Why do teenagers exist?” I received the following comment from the user someteen: (pardon the misspelled words)I dont even know where to begin after reading an article like that….hmmm….well first I do agree with what you have said on […]