Necessary Roughness

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Archive for March, 2005

Strange but Not Unwelcome Phone Call
Friday, March 4th, 2005

I woke up this morning at 6 to my cell phone ringing. The Caller ID said “Home”, so I answered it. “Hello?”
I heard a TV in the background, but no response. Then I heard one of the twins (now 2 years and almost 2 months old) singing into the phone.
“Hey, baby, is that you? Did [...]

Even in March We Can Still Talk Football
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

As a Kansas City Chiefs fan I have little shock for the trade which sent Randy Moss to Oakland. The Bay Area seems happy enough. The only way Al Davis could shock anybody with a hire is if he hired O.J. Simpson to be coach.
Missouri-side, the Chiefs are looking at linebacker Jeremiah Trotter. Trotter seems [...]

I thought this report would be filed two weeks from now, but I have orders to travel to Kilgore next week.
Corporate’s travel web site tries to force me into a lie whenever I want to stay at my preferred hotel in Longview now, so another hotel report will be filed in one or two weeks. [...]

Come to Bury, Not to Praise
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

“One can be sorry that Hunter Thompson died as he did, but not sorry, surely, that he stopped writing.”
— William F. Buckley, Jr., Death of a Comic