Now bend over and get ready for your spankings! ...

Happy 4th of July!Patriotic cupcakes. ...

Another fun afternoon at the pool.Forrest swims. ...

Forrest and I have had a good time hanging out at the pool the last couple of afternoons.Forrest wears a tank top when he goes running. ...

After learning that I am a terrible person, I think about little Snowball and Mama Cat, rescued from the backyard, and Henny-Penny, perched on her blue towel in the laundry room, and decide that someone is over-reacting and perhaps projecting their flaws onto me.Still, I am sitting here when I should be in bed, very angry and wondering why I put up with this crap. ...

At Doctor Fred's office for my annual physical. The physician's assistant was pleased to see I have lost 20 pounds and noted that my blood pressure had improved. I asked Dr. Fred to look and see what I weighed when I first went to him. In 1996, I was 160 pounds.Holy emaciated crap! MidLifeCrisis2009 Homer is now at 193-195 lbs, depending on which scale I get on. I cannot imagine being 33 pounds skinnier- there wouldn't be anything left of me.So we talked about optimal weight and 185 seems like the proper goal.And in other news, I'm driving up to ...

So it's been a while. There really hasn't been much to say lately expect to whine and complain about the constant pain. The nerve pain is starting to go away but like my doctor told me, it's going to take a very long time Very. Long. Time. Ugh. I was encouraged yesterday morning when I woke up and felt no pain. NONE AT ALL. Of course that quickly ended when I got out of bed and sat dawn. Ouch! I have a follow up with my doctor this morning and more physical therapy on Wednesday. I've been trying not to go all Valley of ...

Sunday afternoon in the pool with Ken. Perfect weather and fun company. ...

According to Doug, this is a palo verde borer. He is my go-to man for all of my entomology questions. I'll be seeing him in late July when he is in town for a bug conference.Palo Verde Borer.Going swimming again, summer has arrived with all of its hot and sticky days. ...

I'm standing in the pool at the house Sandy, Mark, and Zane will be moving into on July 7.Pool!The water was 88 degrees. I'm part lizard, so I would like it to be in the low 90s. The monsoon clouds are overhead, eventually I had to get out of the pool because I was wondering if it was going to be stormy.I did all of my weekend chores yesterday afternoon, so it was really a lazy day. Tomorrow morning I'm back to the gym, now that my knee is back to normal, and beginning work on the next ...

Does this pit make my butt look big?The safety vest and hard hat are today's of-so-necessary fashion accessories at the sewer plant.I found this transitional Empire-to-San Pedro style point in the fill of the pit, which was about three feet deep. Also, a grinding stone (mano), flaked stone waste, and rabbit, bird, rodent, and deer bones.I came home covered in dirt. I am still blowing it out of my nose hours later. I worked hard today! ...

Ohmigod, I have never flown to a South American country to cheat on my spouse and leave my four sons at home on Father's Day. Because I'm a big old faggot and I am not allowed to get married in most states in the fricken U. S. of A. and if I lived in Arkansas I wouldn't be allowed to adopt children because I'm a nasty homo, and everyone knows that homos are evil folks.Yessirree, Republicans politicans have the bestest traditional family values. I only wish I could become a Republican, but even the Log Cabineers and that new ...

Well Summer has arrived. The evaporative cooler is rapidly becoming less effective. I tossed and turned last night. I would have slept on the couch in the living room, where it is less hot, but Joey did what she does periodically (peed on the cushion), so that wasn't happening.I am out at the dig site toiling away. I am still losing weight- now at 199. My pants are falling down. I can wear shirts that I haven't worn in three or four years. Yeah me.I am working on my secret project. My fingers are sore.Starting to think about what to ...

I awoke early and was driving back from Bisbee by 6:20. Near Benson I carefully swerved around a rattlesnake sunning on the asphalt. Sunrise. Richard, Roger, and I stayed with Ray, Cobban, and Terry in a lovely house perched halfway up a hill. We sat on the porch and had some drinks and chatted before meeting the guys for dinner. Cobban and Ray. Bisbee is a lovely old mining town and the vegetation is quite different from Tucson, reflecting it being 3,000 feet higher. Besides the typical desert plants we saw many peach and apricot ...

What I'm up to:- being at work at 5:30 AM out at the dig site has my internal clock all messed up.- I banged my knee last week and it still aches enough that I haven't been able to go to the gym.- however, I am down to 202 lbs (from 216) and my pants are falling down. Based upon what I see in the mirror, I think 190 is the likely goal.- going to Gay Pride in Bisbee in a few minutes, hanging out with Ray and Cobban, Richard and Roger. I am going to be full of ...

Just to be clear, I have not had an affair with a Republican politician. Any rumors you hear about that are completely, utterly untrue. ...

I went back to work today. Well, I went back last Thursday but after two days, I was bedridden all weekend. Monday, The Greg® drove me back to the doctor for more 'roids and some reassurance that, "Yes, Brian. You will be able to sit and walk normally again." Oy. Today I was able to work about six hours before I had to call it quits. Me and Mr. Vicodin are now having a lovely evening washing dishes and grooving to my new fave song that I saw last week on BFF. Awesome, right? ...

How did I bruise my knee? Apparently I banged it on something at the dig site on Friday- now it hurts enough that I did not go to the gym to continue with MidLifeCrisis2009.Sam Elliott or Pornstache?I was placed in a singularly bad mood this afternoon. I came home and watched mid-1980s music videos on Youtube to calm my nerves.Henny-Penny and today's egg.Henny-Penny knows now that she is supposed to go to the laundry room when it starts to get dark. She has taken to laying eggs on the top of the washing machine- very convenient for me ...

Richard asked me to make Roger's 50th birthday cake. Roger is the best cook I know, so making his cake was a bit scary. He asked me to incorporate chocolate and hazelnut flavors.I made a practice cake two weekends ago and practice cupcakes last Monday night (the people at the dig enjoyed those). Each time I tweaked the recipe for the cake and frosting slightly.The Cake.I made a basic chocolate mayonnaise cake (adding a half batch so I could have three layers) and added about four tablespoons hazelnut oil to the batter. In the end you couldn't taste ...

At the gym I saw the hot Middle Eastern man. I wonder if he is ancestry is Iranian? I note that many of the men protesting the faked election results in Iran are very attractive.I have been watching carefully what I eat, no alcohol, and going to the gym regularly these last few weeks, along with working out on the dig. In the last month I have gone from 216 pounds to 206 pounds. I had to use the next hole for my belt and certain clothes are no longer tight. According to the Body Mass Index, I am still ...