Had an interesting drive into work this morning... my drive is most of an hour, the price of living amongst the corn and away from sirens, but I have a company vehicle that is a real perk. I was driving in some extreme cold (7 degrees), and there was some snow on the ground, just fluffy flakes settling like dust, accumulating here and there, and also dancing in the headlights as I drove.

It wasn't even close to being a storm, but all it takes is for one person of the right cautionary...

With bailouts, stimulus packages, unemployment extensions and a myriad of government payouts added to the national debt, we have entered the era of the trillion-dollar expenditure.

A trillion here, a trillion there, and after several times of hearing the trillion-dollar figure, it actually sounds affordable.

But is it? Most people have no concept of what a trillion-dollars is. Get ready for a shocker.

A dollar bill is 6.14 inches in length. Imagine stacking...

On one of those perfect Arizona fall mornings we decided to go flying in my brother's Cessna 140. When we got to the airport we saw a group of guys gathered around the nose of one of two Cessna 180 planes at our little airport. They were hot, sweaty, and in a general bad mood cause they had been trying to prop start the planes for over an hour as it had a dead battery.

We asked if we could help and were invited to the prop party. I went first cause I was taller. My brother yelled...

It turns out that I am a part of a very small percentage of Americans: I am a veteran of a war.

I won't attempt to claim that I'm some sort of war hero. I know people who are, and I've been right next to extraordinary people when they have outperformed the rest of us. Sometimes that's just the way these things happen.

With all that being said, I have no real redeeming/outstanding qualities. I simply do my job the best that I know how and try to improve every day,...

I wanted something awesome to celebrate my degree with. Something cool and fun that I could look at and would remind me of graduating, of getting off my ass and finishing something, that could serve as a milestone marker not only of finishing up at NKU, but of our move to Texas.

Looking at a map of aforementioned Texas, finding the little dot marked "Cleburne" and the non-dot where I knew Stephenville to be -- Stephenville housing Tarleton State University -- I decided...