Day 206 through 210

Planes, Trains and Automobiles . . . Surviving the least Magical Place on Earth. With the Jack Butler Hotel at maximum capacity, I find myself a bit pressed for time to continue with my usual academic pursuits.  That being said, we are turning in a bit earlier than usual this evening, so I feel I must jot something down on paper before I lose track of the mis-adventures that have filled the past week of our lives.  Our guests arrived a week ago Friday, and due to a slight miscalculation on our part, were forced to ignore their jet...

Day 202 through 205

The Jack Butler Hotel Once again we have illuminated the “No” on the vacancy sign out front of the ole Jack Butler Hotel as we are preparing for guests come morning.  This time it will be the other half of my wife’s parental units and we are indeed looking forward to the visit.  I need deodorant and the children are desperate to embark on the side trip we have planned to Disneyland Paris.  There is but one small hiccup at the Hotel, and that hiccup has management in an uproar.  As you all know by now, my current scale for a...

Day 201

Lessons hardly learned and a short course in International Marketing. We have all seen these home video type programs on TV.  You know the ones, a grainy video hacked out on a Hi8 where some hayseed took time out of his day of Nascar watching to video tape his dog barking and attacking his own reflection in a mirror.  One would think that after the third or forth collision with the mirror that the dumb dog would figure out the error in his ways.  Well, that is me with the Wilkinson Sword.  After weeks of self mutilation, one...

Day 197 through 200

The Accidental Exhibitionist:  Unlocking Victoria's Secret while giving the neighbors the Full Monte. A miracle has occurred on this the16th day of September.  If you have been following along, we have been struggling with internet connectivity for going on two months now and I am proud to say that with a little stress and strife, we are now connected back into the information super highway and I can once again focus my passion on this project.  It has been a busy few weeks, so the inability to connect, while inconvenient has been...

Day 192 through 196

Deliberations at Daybreak . . . Flied Lice for Breakfast I realize it has been many days since my last post and I have likely alienated what remaining readership I have left.  I would like to say that this fine morning finds me with a robust internet connection and a hat full of ideas, but unfortunately neither is the case.  It was suggested to me recently that locating the Holy Grail might be a more worthy and fruitful quest than obtaining a French internet connection, and at this point I might have to agree.  Indiana Jones...

Day 186 through 191

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick The exceedingly frenetic pace of my full time job as a part time single father of two has once again kept me from writing or painting much of anything over the past several days.  Once again, life finds my wife out of town during a stressful period in our lives.  This in fact marks the second day of school of my young lads at the French private school we have enrolled them in.  Her absence was indeed noted on my end and I found myself quite angry with her as the first day of school approached. ...