Ernie Online

Let me preface this blog post by stating the story I’m about to tell was before Google, YouTube or access to instruction guides or videos on vendor websites. I guess I say that so that I don’t feel too silly or at least don’t get judged too much. However, my actions, as a result of […]

About 15 years ago I joined a coed softball team with my wife. The idea was that it was a recreational team and while still competitive, it was more for the “fun of spending time with my wife and friends.” However, I’m pretty competitive and still wanted to win. The problem is my mind thought

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I love to document life through pictures. Before the camera phone, before the digital camera, I was always the one carrying around a thirty-five-millimeter camera or a Polaroid camera. I was also that annoying guy at weddings who took advantage of those disposable cameras on the tables

Roughly 20 years ago my children were in Little League Baseball. I loved going to the games and watching them perform what they practiced every week. My wife and I went in with the concept that we wanted our children to have fun. Sometimes, it was challenging for them when they either didn’t listen to

It’s happened again.  It only happens every four years, but it’s happened again! I am hooked on watching and following the Olympics. I don’t know what it is? Maybe it’s because I love sports. Maybe it’s because it’s a sense of National pride. Maybe it’s all the hype and hoopla of the events. Maybe it’s

We pride ourselves in keeping a nice clean home and upkeep of our lawn and landscaping. It is not only for our benefit but the rules of the neighborhood as our home is in a Homeowners Association. I truly enjoy mowing my lawn and my wife enjoys planting and taking care of the various flowers

This last week I got the chance to do something I’ve wanted to do since 1986… Yes, 1986. That was the year I graduated high school and the same year Ferris Bueller’s Day Off arrived in theaters. I must’ve seen that movie a dozen or more times as I worked at a movie theater when

About six or seven years ago I got this urge to learn to play a musical instrument. I don’t know what quite came over me as I’m perfectly content to listening to professionals play and I appreciate the years of work they have put in to perfect their craft. But I thought I would make

Last month I was feeling kind of… blah. I know that’s not a technical or scientific term but that’s how I was feeling.  I wasn’t terribly unhappy. Nothing major or life changing happened.  Overall, I suppose felt okay.  I was just not motivated and was very low energy.  Things have been kind of stagnant for

There’s this thing about me… I overthink just about everything! I mean, it’s a real issue sometimes. It’s to the point where I wish there were some type of support group where I could go and work out my overthinkingness (yes, I just created a word). I think it stems from wanting to be perfect