Author Archives: patrickrhett

If you spent any time at all this summer with the Lovely Wife or me, you know that she has spent a good portion of it making a wedding dress for her friend and teaching mentor. And stressing about the … Continue reading →

On Wednesday I told the Lovely Wife that she was getting a present the next day. She was sure it was going to be a book she had seen and wanted – Happier, by Tal Ben-Shahar. It was actually a … Continue reading →

So, I can take a picture with my iPhone and email it from the iPhone to a .Mac web gallery, where it will automatically be added. I can add as many galleries as I like, and have a different email … Continue reading →

… to an almost unhealthy degree. I carry it with me everywhere. Some Jehovah’s Witnesses just came to my door, and I unplugged it and put it in my pocket so I would have it with me in case I … Continue reading →

Before. (Dingy, old, moldy.) After. (Clean, new, monkey-tastic.) Cleaned, installed new composite floor tile, replaced cabinet sink with pedastel sink, re-caulked, and increased monkey content by 1000%.

Skim Milk, Cream, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Monoglycerides, Diglycerides, Carob Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Annatto Extract, Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and Cottonseed Oil, Water, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate, Beta Carotene, Vitamin A Palmitate, … Continue reading →

“It’s all juice coming from the same place, I don’t see how that makes it redundant.” I was sitting at my desk when someone on the other side of the cube wall walked by and I heard this snippet of … Continue reading →

We went to Houston last Fall to see Body Worlds @ the Houston Museum of Natural Science. We visited the museum that day, but had to call and get on a list to see the Body Worlds exhibit at 1:45 … Continue reading →

I went to this show with my brother Ian, but I don’t remember that much about it. I think she wore a suit.

The lovely not-yet-wife and I were in the last row of the Austin Music Hall, but could see just fine, and it was close to beer. There was a guy who stood behind us for a minute on his phone … Continue reading →