This was my first blog.  I started it to see what I could do with it, and it expanded very quickly, and became more professional.  Now the problem is that my personal blog no longer fits in my professional sites.

I really don't want to shut it down, but JeBas.US has been expanding into other areas of interest and service.  The main www site discusses the issues about running websites like this one.  GlutenFree helps parents feed a family gluten free meals.  Art not only shows my latest artwork, but discusses issues of marketing on the Internet.  And finally, groupGTD is a time and project management software for groups and individuals.  

Stories was nothing more than stories of what happened to me.  These stories didn't offer parenting tips, or little morals, and anything that would be considered important.  All these stories are little pieces of amusement for friends and family.  I enjoyed writing them, but they no longer have a place on this site, so they must be moved.

From now on, my LiveJournal page will hold these stories.  LiveJournal is better suited for these personal stories, and I encourage you follow along at that site.  There I will keep a personal journal of what I'm doing.  

Thank you for reading. 

My mother has this story that tells on herself. I takes place shortly after she re-entered the work force. She, her boss, and several coworkers were at a restaurant enjoying a nice steak dinner, when her boss turned to her and stated, "I believe that I'm old enough to cut my own steak."

She ends the story with a reminder that she had stayed at home a long time to raise five kids. She had been cutting other people's meat for a very long time.

I am severely hoping that I am finally over these bugs. A couple of days ago I finally got up and felt well rested. None of my joints hurt, and I wasn't trying to turn my lungs inside out.

The title says it all. I've been sick on and off for almost a month, and I am sick of it. It's annoying, it's frustrating, and I have to much work to do. I want it over. I want it done with. I want to be healthy and move on. ARRGGHHHHH!

It's a minor complaint, I admit, but I want my fuzzy alarm clock to come with a snooze button. I've been sick a lot recently, and I have been trying to get some rest, but my cat seems to think she knows when I need to get up. The problem is that she is not always right.

I have heard, though I cannot remember the source, that domesticated animals are not as smart as those in the wild. I have sometimes wondered if that was true. My best example of proving the case is my wife's guinea pigs.

While I was working at ZSoft, I had told a story about a customer that then got repeated, and eventually passed into one tech support urban legends. This is the story as it happened to me.

The picture connected to this entry was done in my first professional job. I was doing telephone tech support for a company called ZSoft. To learn their new PhotoFinish program, I began painting with it. This was the first digital image that I ever produced. It was one of the many things that job had given me.

As I was looking through the list of things that I could write about, I realized how many of them involved me doing something stupid when I was young. I realize now that every stupid little thing that I have done in my past is going to come back and haunt me, in morbid detail.

If someone asked me what the key element of parenting was, I would have to answer endurance. The trick is obviously out lasting your little ones so that you can reach that all important goal of grand-parenthood. That stage in life where you don't have to be the mean old parent, but the spoiling grandparent that doesn't have to live with the consequences. But to get there, you have to have endurance.