2011 has been a year of change for holySmith! and you’d never know it by looking at this website because I haven’t updated it much.

holySmith! has been busy.

This is a classic case of the carpenter’s house never being finished. I spend most of my waking hours working on websites for one client or another and when I get home, there are two fine young holySmith! kids waiting to consume my attention, plus the finest wife in the history of wives — holySmith! The Wife.

So with all that, the time to blog/eBitch about things has kind of fallen off the table. But I am determined to keep holySmith! The Website alive and well because I’ve noticed that my competition has pretty much fallen off the face of the Earth now that we have stuff like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and the like. Many of the people who thought they could handle running and writing a website or blog have since come to terms with their inability to do it full time and instead, they tweet or post crap on walls (literally or on Facebook).

And that leaves holySmith! to pick up where others fell off. There are too many years of worthless content on here to walk away now, so this train’s gonna keep on rollin’ all night long.

Now I just need to figure out what I want to post. I have at least 8-10 posts that I’ve written to various degrees of completion, however, after writing them, I felt like they were all pointless and decided to stop. That usually means that they were too serious, too political, or I just ran out of enthusiasm for them and said, ‘screw it’. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll make fun of Chad or something. That’s always good for some fun and best of all, Chad likes it because he gets to be Internet Famous for a while.

Stay tuned, if there are any of you still paying attention at all.

holySmith! The Update is a post from: holySmith!

If you want to learn the big news, watch this. I would have embedded it, but it doesn’t fit properly on the page.

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holySmith! The Boy (now age 4) requested a Boba Fett pumpkin for Halloween. Note the authentic pumpkin rangefinder/rangefinder stalk and bullet dent on the top, right side. I had to add those to distract from my amateur pumpkin carving skills and poor symmetry, of course.

Boba Fett: The Pumpkin // Boba Fett: The Bounty Hunter

Boba Fett Pumpkin is a post from: holySmith!

Where were you when Neil and Buzz walked on the moon? Where were you when the attacks on 9/11 happened?

Where were you when the Great Iced Tea Incident of 2010 went down?

The cashiers at QT execute multiple checkouts with military precision.

But the well was dry.

Another lady said, “Yep, it’s empty, but I think they’re making more.”

Another woman was all like, “What? No unsweetened iced tea?”

“But I don’t want any pop,” says Chad Saddoris, like an Iowan.

“Ugh, really?” said holySmith!.

At that point, the panic started to set in for us. It was like we weren’t going to have our iced tea for the day. The sense of loss was really starting to swell up inside me, almost to the point of tears. So, in order to help cope with the devastation, we resorted to humor.

Chad was like, “well I guess the price of iced tea’s going to skyrocket now.”

And holySmith! was all, “Yep, now that it’s in demand here at the QT, iced tea’s going to start going for $100 per barrel and we’re going to be paying out the backside for it.”

Then some other people said stuff.

The Iced Tea that almost never was.

And as we walked back out to our shaded parking spot, next to the gas pump, we all reflected on the trials and tribulations that we experienced that day at the QT.

Take time today to reflect on where you were. And never forget the almost tragedy that was the Great Iced Tea Incident of 2010.

Great Iced Tea Incident of 2010 is a post from: holySmith!

Yesterday, the St. Louis Cardinals all but handed the NL Central title to those lingering farts known as the Cincinnati Reds. I can’t even remember the last time I met or heard from a Reds fan — oh, wait, that’s because there haven’t been any Reds fans seen in the wild since Eric Davis was hitting shots out of the Astro-turfed confines of Riverfront Stadium. Now, suddenly, there are Reds fans coming out of the woodwork.

I am pretty sure that when the Cardinals play the Cubs here in a week or so, it will mark the first time that two teams will actually find a way to lose to each other in the same game.

Yet I remain painfully optimistic until they play the last game of the year. There is nothing worse than this feeling right now if you’re a real Cardinals fan. Tomorrow is September and we’re basically done, barring any miraculous winning streaks combined with an utter collapse from the Reds simultaneously.

Now August 2010 is in the books. I thought we had it in the bag, but here we are, reduced to Cubs fans.

It’s just not right.

Oh August 2010, where have you gone? is a post from: holySmith!