Withdrawal From Social Media

A couple of days ago, i removed myself from social media. I deactivated my Facebook account and deleted my Twitter app. It feels very refreshing to be able to focus on my every day life a little bit more. We'll see if I'll be able to keep it down for a while, but I'm giving it the old college try.

The Undiscovered Country

Is that what the future is? The Undiscovered Country? Who knows. It's a strange time. Unplug and keep moving forward.

Overwhelming Adversity

I know a girl who bought a school bus and had all the seats out in a day. One day. The day after she bought it. I'm taking years, literally, years to slowly move through my plans. I could say it's youthful energy that isn't burdened with kids and dogs, but it's me. I'm slow and lazy. Time to change. 

My Best Girl (Lucero)

I'm a sucker for some pretty eyes

But they're going home with some other boy tonight

And i guess I'll be fine

Cuz there's one girl that's all mine

She's seen it before, she'll see it again

Cause that other girl's going home with him

And I've come back to her

She don't mind

She's my best girl, she's got six strings

And she knows all about these heart-breaking things

Though her eyes might not shine, she's

Always by my side

Well, she's all mine, for all night

She's my best girl by far

Well, she's all mine, for all night

And she'll never break my heart

She don't care if i come home late

Or if i don't come home for seven long days

She knows that I'm hers

And she knows to wait

She knows those other girls just won't last

She knows I'll always come on back

To her

She's all that I got

She's my best girl, she's got six strings

And she knows all about these heart-breaking things

Though her eyes might not shine, she's

Always by my side

Well, she's all mine, for all night

She's my best girl by far

Well, she's all mine, for all night

The only girl a boy can trust is his guitar

She's my best girl, she's got six strings

And she knows all about these heart-breaking things

Though her eyes might not shine, she's

Always by my side

Though her eyes might not shine, but

At least she's all mine

The Blue Collar Life

I'm in love with where i am, working on the every day life, laughing with people who are sharing the experience. I'm not rich, and i never will be. I'm excited about it. I'd rather hang with the under-dogs in this fight. 

Home

I'm feeling today, more than i have in a long time, that I'm living in exile.

I was born in Colorado. Denver. The capital city. At the time, my parents lived in a bedroom community in the hills called Conifer. My mom grew up a few miles from there in another little town, but it was too close to Denver for them. They had to get away.

Dad worked for the Post Office, and when i was 6, he transferred from Evergreen to Salida. I graduated high school here and came back after a very brief stint in San Antonio, Texas (Go Air Force!) and not completing two years of college in Alamosa, Colorado. Then Denver for 7 years.

I was in Denver making signs for real estate companies when the market crashed, and i decided to move to Alaska. That's home 

I lived in Ketchikan for four amazing years. I met my wife there. I had a great job, lived on a sailboat. I got to watch sunsets that took hours and leave fires on the beach. I got to camp under tarps and see whales.

Then i gave it up. For my kids.

And now I miss it something fierce.

Vehicle Registration

In an actually relevant-to-this-blog post, the BattleWagon OG has registration again. It's been almost a year since it expired, and it's just been sitting, sadly full of junk and wasting away. So much work to be done, but it can be done. It just needs to be done. What better place than here? What better time than now?