Surfing Safety Lesson

This morning, as I was driving down Harris Road to go surf at Wrightsville Beach at a little before 7 AM, I saw a number of police cars blocking off all the roads off of Harris.  I got to a checkpoint near Briarcliff Apartments, where my brother-in-law, Michael Mercer, lived until very recently.  I reached […]

Michael Mercer’s Sting

There was a pizza, a Red Baron pizza, in the freezer.  I can’t remember how long ago Amanda and I bought it, but it seems like every time I suggested fixing it, Amanda wasn’t in the mood to have it.  So I fixed it myself today for lunch.  Yummers. Michael came by to pick me […]

Surfing After Work

I went surfing after work today.  Michael had called up earlier in the day and asked if I wanted to go and I told him I’d check the surf report around 5:00 to see what it was like out there.  The surf report said that what was out there was about shin-high and nobody was […]

First Time Technical Directing

I got up at 5:30 this morning to go volunteer at Port City Community Church.  I guess I’ve been doing that for about three years now (Really – wow!) but this was the first time I’d done it in the new church building. When  the church was held at Roland-Grise Middle School there was equipment, […]

Flat as a Lake

Amanda and I got up a bit early today to take care of some things then went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast.  They had a huge display of Tar Heel crap when you first walk in which made me want to vomit and leave, but the Mama’s French Toast breakfast is really good so we […]