Matt Howell

The kids and I had a great time last night. First, they were dropped off at the office around 4pm. We headed over to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. We needed to kill some time until the Muncie Symphony played that evening at Minitrista. I decided on Chuck-E-Cheese and the kids liked that! We played ski-ball, [...]

Don Shockney passed away on Sunday, August 26th. I had the pleasure of attending his service of remembrance on Wednesday. Don was my best friend’s grandfather and I’ve known him for quite a few years. Amazing woodworker. Good man. I was also impressed by the military portion of the graveside service…special thanks to the men [...]

Friday evening my dad and I mowed my yard (I pretty sure I haven’t mowed it for a month because of the dry weather). The yard takes about 3 hours to complete and I’m always happy to have the help to get it done. Afterwards, I drove into Winchester and had dinner at Velia’s Tacos [...]

The kids and I stayed in Friday night and watched movies. First, “Bridge to Terabithia“, a Disney movie for my daughter. Wasn’t bad. Girl died. Oh, sorry, ruined it for ya. LOL :-) It did have one of my fav gals in it: Zooey Deschanel Next up, Hot Fuzz. Had promise, lost me, then came [...]

Got an email out of the blue this morning from Doug Smith. “I am proud to say that I am now officially a dad. We had a girl, Madeline Elizabeth Smith, on August 9. She weighed 7 lbs 9 oz and was 19 inches long. It was a long day, but it was worth it.”

Tuesday was OzzFest at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana. I arrived around 5:45pm and met up with Angie on the backside. Patrick, another SpinWeb employee, met us there too. Molly was a bit late, arriving around 6:10pm. We all headed in for a heavy metal rockin’ good time. And it was… What [...]

Here’s an update on Karlene and her unfortunate move to Seattle. Cross-Country Move Leaves Roommates Empty Handed From Karlene, “Hey Matt, thought I’d see how you’ve been and give your blog the sequel to our story. It’s not a happy ending…” SEATTLE — There’s new information about the West Seattle roommates whose belongings disappeared in [...]

John Cusack’s girlfriend has just dumped him for the biggest jerk in school, and John deals with the depression, anger, and frustration in humorous ways. Slowly, he finds himself bonding with French exchange student Diane Franklin, a beautiful and clever young woman, that helps to build up Cusack’s self-image so he can win his girlfriend [...]

The kids and I had Pizza King pizza to start out our Friday evening. After dinner, we hung out for a bit and then drove to Muncie where we attended the Friday Night Free Movie outside the downtown development office. They showed the movie “Unaccompanied Minors”. It had Fez in it from “that 70′s show”. [...]