Steven E. Wedel

My oldest kid enters teendom today. I cannot believe it’s been 13 years since the day he came shooting out of my wife like a slimey cannonball. How old was I? Hmm. I guess I was 25. And a wreck. The video tape shot moments after he was born is shaking all over the place…

In typical fashion, OCU is open for business today, while my kids’ schools are closed. There is no synchronicity to the world. The roads are better today. Well, once you get on the main roads. Sidewalks and parking lots are extremely slick, though. So, naturally, I wore the worst shoes I have for ice. Dress…

Work was cancelled today. I know and horrorwench would laugh their assess off over the thought of schools and businesses closing over the paltry amount of snow and ice we have. The ice actually is pretty bad. There’s at least 1/4 inch covering the windows of my car. But the snow hasn’t even covered the street…

Yeah, I’m disturbed about the Oklahoma Sooners laying down for Southern Cal in tonight’s Orange Bowl. But that’s just a game. I can’t really blog about what’s really bothering me. It feels like it would be an invasion of privacy. I don’t know. I visited a sick friend today and learned that he’s in really…

Back at work today. Ugh. Sure, it was an incredibly stressful break what with the freelance work and the kids seeming to have tapeworms making them eat constantly, but at least I was home. However, I seem to function better with a set routine, so maybe it’s a good thing I’m back to the grind.…

Umm. Okay. The ’70s to me were all about KISS, “Welcome Back, Kotter,” “Happy Days” and seeing “Grease” on that new thing called HBO. I really thought this would come up with the 1980s. Oh well. what decade does your personality live in? quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd

Last night I donated 90 or so minutes of my life to yet another horrible movie my wife wanted to watch based on recommendations from her co-workers. This time the culprit was “Napoleon Dynamite.” I’d never heard of it, which wasn’t a good sign. Then the opening credits came on and I saw that MTV…

Here it is, New Year’s Eve. Wow. What a year 2004 was. I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted to, but I think I laid the groundwork to make it happen in 2005. We’ll see. What do I want to accomplish in 2005? 1) Be a better father and husband. 2) Finish rewriting The Prometheus Syndrome,…

I’m still sick. Damn cold just hangs on. Now I’ve got a nice cough that irritates my sore throat. I thought hell was shoe shopping with my wife. I was wrong. With her, I could always leave her to it and go to another store or another department. But with my 10-year-old daughter, I can’t…

Today I knocked off one of the four freelance newspaper articles due on Wedneday. That might not seem so bad, except that I spent most of the day making calls and waiting for calls to be returned. I still have three freelance pieces to write and would like to work on some fiction, ya know.…