Yesterday morning at 6:30am I got out of bed and opened up my laptop. When I normally book a flight, I do it at least the day before, but since I wasn’t really sure what I was doing in San Jose and for how long I’d be doing it, buying a flight back to San Diego was something I was putting off. And no, my wife wasn’t very happy about me buying a one-way ticket …

how many days have I spent locked in a room, pecking away at the keyboard of my laptop to the point where my back and my brain hurt like hell? too many. I do it to myself, really. It is the only time I can truly get things done without being interrupted in one way or another. I don’t have a cell phone with me thank God, and only a couple of people know the …

Here I am, in Costa Rica not even 24 hours, and I’m marrying a couple on the beach in front of the surf camp. Its amazing that you can get ordained instantly online. Rose Ministries, www.openordination.org, thank you. You can now call me RevJoe. OK, so let me tell you what it feels like when you return from being away from your large business for two months. It feels great. It feels overwhelming. It is …

Its 11:45pm and the family is sleeping, I’m on the couch half-watching Army Of Darkness. I met up with Muzzy at the Catalina Lounge for a drink tonight, just one because last Saturday I decided to have a boys night out and lost count of my drinks, had to be driven home, puked, the fun stuff like that. It was an old friend from high school having a birthday party. I saw people I hadn’t …

Where have I been? You know where. Having another kid. Tying up loose ends as I get ready to hit the road for a few trips. Not answering my phone or my emails much. Its crazy that I’ve been sitting in San Diego for this long, going a bit stir crazy and not knowing when the new baby was going to come. Then a week ago today Happy was born. I’m sorry I haven’t written …

ps there isn’t another one coming nine months from now. A little after midnight this morning I sat in the hospital room with my son Happy. What a trip to be holding a three-hour-old baby. We were expecting for Happy to be quite a bit smaller than Otis, but he was born pretty much the same size. 21 inches long, 8 pounds 8 ounces. And HUGE feet. After now having my second child I can …