Driving a Jeep is great, as long as you don't mind rain dripping on you while you're driving, the check engine light being permanently alight, and if you want a consistently working stereo.

This is really short but funny. Not adding a spoiler here -- just go read the whole post.

Young kids love the vulgarities. Ours get to hear plenty of them.

It's really cold, and earlier this winter, it even snowed in Baton Rouge!

You can find out what buckets Facebook put you in for the purposes of selling you adds and selling your information to advertisers. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but they are not very good at categorizing you.

Misunderstanding song lyrics is a source of comedy that goes back as long as humans have been singing.

Some thoughts about the college football games this weekend, and is there still such a place as Key West?

I was helping V with a book report, and there's a giant picture of an old ship with six thousand little labels for every line and sail. Boat geeks and readers of parent blogs alike with rejoice in this internet content.

I wonder whose job it is to come up with new neighborhood street names. I'm thinking that this might be the job for me. Here's how I get to that idea.

AFor the first time in many years, we went on Summer vacation without taking the helm of a sailboat. Instead, I took the helm of the motor van San Clemente< for a tour of the Pacific Northwest. We started out north of Seattle, ferried through the San Juan Islands of Washington, crossed over the Vancouver island in Canada. From there, we crossed British Columbia and visited several Canadian National Parks in their Rocky Mountain range. Finally, we circled back into Washington for a few days before heading home.

My sister recently left a job where she worked for a real nut. Their business was butt wipes. Pretty simple. Below is the text from an email that boss man sent the advertising agency describing a commercial he wanted to make. All wording and grammer are exactly as he sent them, with the excitation that I've replaced the brand name with blanks.

We had something at the house that would lead you to believe that we live in squalor.