Category: Life It’s Ownself

Mission Impossible II: Return to IKEA  <cue theme music> Mr. Semitough. Your mission, should you be stupid enough to accept it, is to return the the Swedish furniture store accompanied by your IMF team. Once there you are to locate and extricate a piece of stylized Swedish furniture suitable for use as a computer workstation. Once you have liberated the furniture you…

In the suburban jungle, weekends are the most dangerous times and require a true suburban guerilla to redouble his or her efforts in order to survive. This weekend was no exception for Semitough. Surviving trips to the mall, kid activities, and the dreaded weekend projects require cunning, skill, and daring. We did OK this weekend. What with The Princess now…

2006 Texas Aggie Football Wallpaper – 4 Originally uploaded by AggieFrog. Most folks start the year on January 1 but at the Semitough house the year doesn’t really start until Fightin’ Texas Aggie Football season begins. Semitough, Mi Esposa, The Princess, and Energizer Buddy will be heading down to College Station for the Citadel game, this year’s season opener at…

The sun came up hot on my second day as a redneck bloggisti. The last few remnants of Semitough’s weekly lawn watering ration were evaporating off the brown grass like vapor rising over a steaming pot. At some point there will be no benefit to the once weekly watering and I can just turn off the sprinkler system and save the money. At…