Archive for May, 2005


Americus Wayne Maddox

My grandfather, Wayne Maddox died today (31 May 2005) at 12:13p CST. He was 88. He is survived by his wife of nearly 62 years, Benonia, four children (Russell Maddox, Kay Quast, Cheryl Evans, and Laurel Fort), ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend was a much needed four day weekend for myself. I have every other Friday off at work, so that is awesome, and my normal long weekend was extended an extra day. That makes me very very happy. Looking back on the weekend, I can’t exactly say that I did anything significant; I hung [...]

Ugh

I was watching the season finale of Lost last night (via the DVR). The show is fairly good, and I’ve enjoyed watching it this year. I’ve always been a fiend for deserted island stories (I love Robinson Crusoe, the Swiss Family Robinson, Giligan’s Island, The Cay, etc…), so this fits in nicely with that. Anyways, [...]

Bye-Bye Mavs

As a huge Mavs fan, I was saddened to see that we choked and lost game six. Unfortunately, I was out of town and didn’t get a chance to watch it, but I did see that we lost in OT (I read all the recaps and analysis earlier this afternoon). I’m also glad that I’ll [...]

Testing the Welcome

As many of you know, I work for a small (joking) church in Houston — Champion Forest. This spring we revamped the main website, and recently, we redesigned the student site, In Your Element. (In both cases, we actually means “I”) The redeisgns went really well, and I think most people are very happy with [...]

Graduation Plus One

Today, marks the one year anniversary of my graduation from college. It almost seems surreal that the first year has passed, and in spite of sounding like a bad cliche, it has gone by so very fast.

Finally!

After six months, eight designs, two hosts, three blogging software systems, and numerous promises to get this thing online, the site is finally online.