So, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything remotely meaningful here.

I was wondering about that. I mean, my blog is a little like therapy, and worth every penny. Also, you only get out of it what you put into it. I’m sure I can find another cliche to toss in here if I wanted to.

I started this thing years ago, and to this day my most popular posts are anythign that mention Emma Watson, Texas Cheerleaders, liquor stores, boobs of any kind, and granny sex. See? There’s no accounting for taste.

A new school year is upon us, I now have three kids in school. This, of course, is exciting and challenging, as any of you with school kids already know. There is much to be done on a given day, from homework to bathtime to extracurricular things. The other night I spent 45 minutes braiding my daughter’s hair, trying to give my wife a break (she’s the expert), and of course when my wife saw it by the light of the next morning, it all had to come down.

Since I fret here on occasion about energy issues (we are in a crisis, whether folks want to call it one or not), I thought I’d mention how odd it is that oil prices continue to fall (as of today) in spite of most of the gulf of mexico production remaining idle thanks to Gustav and now Ike. Ike could truly hit hard – the forecasters are saying it could be the worst Texas hurricane (himacane?) in forty years. Unless it isn’t. You know how these things are, so so many variables and unknowns. We’ll just wait and see. Now as for me, personally, the most I’ll see is a bunch of rain (if it follows the predicted track it should go right up the middle of the state, and we’d be on the rainy side). I’m a five hour drive inland from Corpus, on a good day, and three hours up from Galveston, so you can see that the brunt of the storm should be spent before it gets here.

We need the rain.

However, my wife is still ticked at me for not wanting to go to the beach last weekend, and this weekend the weather looks like crap, and if the storm surge is as bad as they predict there may not be much beach left to visit the following weekend.

Time will tell.

As you can see by looking around here, most of my blogging is on twitter, and that’s all well and good, but leaves me leaving a bit fractured. I’m gonna check the magic box on this entry and post a link to this to twitter, too. What the hell.

I’ve been running, trying for three days a week. I wound up at 12 miles in August and so far I’ve got 10 in September, which is a whole lot better than July (2 miles! On the same day!) and hopefully I’ll get close to the 40 miles per month I was logging in June and prior. I’m also doing the hundred pushups program, but I had to step back and do a “prequel” to week 1 since I’m so wimpy.

We need to buy a new printer, since we killed our existing one. I’m torn on trying to get too fancy or just saving money since we’ll break this one in a couple years. We really enjoy having a scanner and the ability to print photos, but in reality we don’t print them much, we can do it at Walgreens about as easily. But they dont’ cost toooo much, and are necessary for homework assignments.

Oh, crap, is my time up already? Oh well. Back to reality.