R&R

Well, I'm on R&R leave from Iraq and I just got to my parents house last night. It's the first time I've seen this one; they moved since last time I visited them. It's a nice place in Greybull, WY. I was originally going to post this from my dad's computer, but one look at that poor thing and I knew I had to use mine. This is for a number of reasons: 1)My dad's computer is pretty old and a bit slow, absolutely nothing more than what he needs. 2)There is so much adware/spyware installed on that thing that I had to stab it through the CPU with a sharp, wooden crucifix. I will deal with this problem all in due order. 3)There is just something about using your own computer; it's more comfortable and familiar.
Tomorrow, I will be going to Orlando to stay with my big sister for a couple days and then on to PA for a few more days before coming back to WY.

Being a Kid

It'd be great to go back to being a kid. No worries. No responsibilities. Life was easy. Easier than it will ever be again. Of course, nobody knew that at the time. Oh, no, we talked about growing up and what we wanted to do. Now, I often look back and wish that I could just return to that simple bliss. It was so easy to find joy in the smallest and simplest of things. Going down to the river to catch crayfish, riding bikes or walking to Buell's and climbing up into the hay mow with our bounty, going around with my dad while he made farm calls, "camping out" in the front yard, going over to Faith's house for pizza and to watch McGyver, playing in the sandbox with my Tonka truck. So many memories, so much nostalgia.
I know that it can never be like that again. Not for our generation, anyway. Time only moves forward; there is no way back. It's past time to think about what we might want to do when we grow up; it's time to decide and follow our course. That's the hardest part, though, the deciding. Once on the path, it's relatively easy to stay on it; it's finding the path that's the hard part. Well, nobody ever said that growing up would be easy.

Here is a picture that I'm guessing was taken 15-16 years ago. It is a picture of my two adjacent siblings (middle and right) and me (left) taken by our parents old house in PA. I'm not sure who took the picture (probably our mom), but my brother scanned it a while ago and it's one of my favorite childhood pictures.

Running Blog

Last month I started a blog to write about my running. The address is http://seetmarl42run.blogspot.com. There is only one post now, but I have some ideas that I might write about in the near future. It's quite a bit different (although the template is identical), which is why I made it a new blog instead of just writing that stuff here. The posts will be considerably longer, also.

Template Update³

OK, I finally got a chance to fix my template, again. The problem was the new search bar at the top that replaced the old ad-bar. It's better, but it cut off the top of my page with the old template. I was messing around with it for a while, but I was having trouble with it, so I just started over. Well, not completely. I stole the template from the "Dots Dark" prefabricated template and adjusted it to how I wanted it to look. Anyway, I tested this one in IE and FireFox with no issues.