Shack Notes

A special thanks to Mike at Crooks and Liars for including us in his blog roundup this morning. For those of you who are new to the blog what you will find here is a collection of posts about all sorts of topics, some happy, some sad, some funny and some that are just kind of out there.

There are about 5,500 posts here. To give you an inkling of what you might find here is a snapshot of some posts that are worth a read.

• The Many Layers of Hell
• The GermoPhobe
• Jack’s Experience In the Ladies Room
• What The Hell Happened to Courtesy
• Inside the Blogger’s Studio- A Dream, Er Nightmare
• The tears that do not fall
• She Needs To Know About Boys
• Great Moments In Parenting- Parts of our Body That Grow
• Letting Love Go
• The Heart Wants What The Heart Wants
• Alone In The Dark
• He Put a Gun To My Head
• Stumbling Through Life
• Me & The UItimate Fighter- Road Rage
• The Bearer of Bad Tidings- One Less Set of Footsteps

Anyway, I appreciate your time and hope that you’ll come back to visit again.

Yes, you read the title of this post correctly. I am asking everyone who comes by the blog to join me in celebrating The Second Annual Link To Jack Day.

As part of the festivities I am asking that you leave a comment letting me know the URL of your link. I’ll return the favor in a different post.

For those who are curious why this year’s date is different from last year here is a simple explanation. The Waffle King spilled a ton of syrup on my calendar and I inadvertently missed the date. If you don’t buy that I can always argue that we operate off of a hybrid lunar/solar calendar that has two leap months.

Either way, it doesn’t matter. March 26 is The Second Annual Link To Jack Day. Join in, provide a link. Leave a comment and let me know what your favorite post is. If you can’t come up with a favorite post feel free to let me know what your favorite category is.

Last but not least, I am taking requests. And now have at it, let the linking begin with reckless abandon.

I have received a few requests to provide links to some old posts. If you are a new reader here are some old posts that you might want to take a look at.

The Germophobe
My Great Sadness
A Boy Named Mookie
Blog Questions We Ask Ourselves
Talking Penis
Blogging for Ego, For Experience, For What
Father’s Love Their Daddies Too
The tears that do not fall
Morality Without Religion- A Comment to The Self-Righteous
The Story of Two Souls
I Yelled At G-d
Married To the Wrong Woman

Sometimes when I start these notes I feel a bit like Captain Kirk. You ought to hear a disembodied voice as the narrator, “Blogdate 01192008…we have entered the template redesign star system….”

This evening I spent a chunk of time working on updating my template. I have been meaning to do so for quite some time, but until tonight had been unable to find a spare block of time. Ok, that is not really true. I hadn’t been willing to use the free time I had to take on the project.

Truth is that tonight I should have tackled a dozen other projects that were more important and more pressing than this one, but sometimes it is much more enjoyable to blow off responsibility. Besides it is a three day weekend so I have plenty of time to fix the motion detector, repair a gate and engage in some heavy labor.

In case you are wondering I am pleased to say that I had the splint removed from my hand. The very next day I celebrated by driving to the gym and spending an hour shooting hoops. I had to fight not to play. I really miss being out there. I love the competition.

Hi Folks,

I am going to play around with the template over the next few days or so. Please excuse the mess.