I picked up the audio book version of Bob Dole's WWII memoir called "One Soldier's Story". WOW is all I can say.

Dole recounts his upbringing, his time at KU and then the beginning of the war. He was moved around and eventually entered the war as a 2nd Lt. in Italy as part of the 10th mountain division.

Dole was hit with machine gun fire because he insisted that he lead his group by being in front during several assualts. His road to recovery was extremely long...

Farmers Insurance gave me a settlement offer of just over $500 for the accident. That's a laughable joke and honestly very insulting. So I had no choice but to file a small claims suit against the driver who pulled out in front of me. Things go pretty quick for this type of case they told me, so I should have a date and time in less than a month.

Ok, my 2002 Trailblazer is starting to get some miles on it and is showing some age. Here is a list of what I need to do to it over the next two months.

Brakes. These are about to go out on me, so I will get them done and I will try to get some higher performance pads put on there and will have the rotors turned.

100k Service. It's time to get a tune-up and a 100k service. Not sure if I will get everything flushed, but I might just go ahead and get that done as I...

Seriously! We had a terrible September and October in Dallas. Lots of clouds, lots of rain. The lakes are all overflowed, that's for sure.

Now that we're into November, it's awesome. Sunny and near 80, which is way higher than normal to get consistent weather like that day after day. I'm not complaining. The groud in my backyard is STILL wet, we need to improve the drainage, BUT I love the nice weather.

The trees just started to change colors and fall off. It's...

Huh, you would think that I could figure out how to hook this blog up to Technorati ... NOPE, guess again.

I've been trying off and on for about a month and I can't get Technorati to connect into this so I can "claim" my blog on that site.

Hmm, anyone have any ideas?