Ruminations

This evening Kathy and I went to Clear Springs Seafood Restaurant for a special dinner. I had never been, and was fairly taken with the huge barn, the nice site, and the giant baskets of onion rings. Afterward, we went and walked around Landa Park, one of my favorite places in New Braunfels.
While walking along [...]

Lots going on: I took Abigail and Maggie down to the river Saturday morning for the San Marcos River Spring Cleanup. After breakfast tacos, we wandered the banks for about 2.5 hours gathering up debris of various descriptions. Maggie spotted a beautiful hawk, and Abby found an egg that had dropped from a tree but [...]

The scene: a mother and her 12-ish year old son stand in the toy section, separated by four aisles of space. I’m right between them.
The mother speaks: “Billy, come over here.”
Billy ignores her.
“Billy, please come over here now.”
Billy continues ignoring her.
“Billy, come here right now, or I’m going to start singing.”
Billy looks mortified, dutifully sulks [...]

For any of you Wii-toting friends out there, here’s my Wii number: 4947 6945 6170 9931. Let me know what yours is so we can get hooked up!

There’s a good article up at the L.A. Times site on Ross, his partner Andy, and their work at Boom! making new and interesting comics. Here’s the link. (If you don’t have an account on their site, feel free to use mine: latimes.5.seanmctex@spamgourmet.com/password.)