Minister Of Mocha

As my alarm went off this morning I did what I typically do: ignored it. In truth, I didn’t exactly ignore it. What actually happened was that when my brain heard the noise it repurposed it into something that made sense. I was in the midst of a dream and the noise was strange. My…

I was watching the Super Bowl with my friend at his house yesterday. It wasn’t a big party, pretty much me, him, and then his wife and son filtered in and out of the kitchen for the occasional snack. On one such occasion I asked his son (early twenties), “What’s your favorite number between 1…

My plans today were kind of all over the place. I was going to go down to Starbucks and have a cuppa. I thought I might run into a friend there who absolutely adores Groundhog Day. I was going to help my grandson with his very first tax return. I was going to write a…

I was trying to email someone this morning. I have never met them, but a mutual acquaintance gave me their information. I sat down and composed an introductory email, you know, just sort of setting the stage to let them know how I thought we might be able to do some work together in the…

Last week I went to a concert in LA. I was excited to see the band for the first time as was my childhood buddy. As we got closer to the arena we began to reminisce about all of the shows we had been to at the Forum in LA. Back in the day it…

Saturday Mrs. Blogs and I played the waiting game. We had the time and location of our Saturday class in prison changed just a day and a half prior and we had no way of letting the fellas know. The result was that several of them stood in 40 degree weather outside the education building…

This year my Steelers have been kind of all over the place. We were in the cat bird’s seat for the playoffs, then faltered against one of the worst teams in the league. Last night, in a winner goes on and loser goes home final game of the season we missed a great chance to…

As you may (or may not) know, I’ve been trying to get into shape to run a half marathon in September. I started off well, then the holidays came. I was traveling, I was eating, I was lazy…now here we are three weeks after I started training, and I’ve barely done anything. As it turns…

Well, I missed all of last week with all of my blogs. The blog service wanted me to update my password so they sent a link to the email on file. The problem with that was that the email on file was from way back when I started the blog and not only is that…

Today is the day that I started training for my first ever half marathon. I got encouraged (read:coerced into it) by my son in law, who is a runner. I bought fancy running shoes and even signed up for a fancy running app. The race is in Sept of 2026, so I have about nine…