I had a pet dog named Smudgy when I was about Five. He was a short-haired german shepard mutt that looked like he had a dirt smudge on his nose. He was a great dog. he was always a good sport has I tried to climb on him and ride him like a horse. Of […]
I went over to a friends house this weekend with my wife. They have a pet rabbit. I like animals so I let the rabbit get used to me so I could pet it. Eventually it came around and let me pet it. I did for a few minutes then drew my hand away. The […]
Like many homes we keep a drying towel on the oven handle. With three kids this is not were the towel stays for long. The other day my wife was cooking dinner and as I walked in I saw flames in the broiler pan of the oven. I asked why my wife had the broiler […]
The old adage goes, measure twice cut once. This can be applied to many things, and in my case its more like measure 4 or five times, write it down on two separate pieces of paper, check twice more, then cut.
I wrote a bit ago about losing the cable to connect my camera to the […]
With so many things always going wrong they tend to blend together. So when something happens that I feel I should write about I first have to write it down. Unfortunately that process has it’s share of problems too. Often times I lose the paper I wrote it on, or the reminder I used doesn’t […]
The holidays are always hard on the old waistline. But I have been back at the gym for almost two weeks now. Despite all that effort, today in the bathroom the button on my pants popped off. I hadn’t even gone to lunch yet! They were also my last clean pair of pants, so I […]
I realize this is a slight departure from my normal focus on my own events, but I thought it might be helpful to understand the genetic makeup of darkcloud.
My father was recently trimming a tree. He knowingly used a somewhat unstable ladder in the process. As he was trimming the ladder gave and he fell […]
When I was young my sister and I begged my dad for Trix brand cereal. After some time of doing this he finally caved. We were ecstatic. We argued over who got to hold the grocery bag. We talked about how wonderful it would be in the morning.
My dad had other […]
So a friend of mine and I planned a ride Saturday and he would pick me up at 8am. Ideally I should have gotten ready Friday night. Instead I went out to dinner and a movie with my wife. We ended up staying up late catching up with an old friend of my moms who […]
I’m not always sure how I survived growing up with my dad. He was busy one day while caring for me and gave me a screwdriver to play with. I was about three. An hour later when he next saw me I had taken the vacuum completely apart. It took him many more hours to put […]