The blog has turned 6 years old. Everybody for free celebratory rootbeer floats at my house, for the rest of the month!

Oh…. is June already over? then make that the rest of next month. My blogging laziness is showing. The blog is a first grader and i don’t even know what day it is.

I remember the days when I would post nearly every day if I could. Well, I say I remember them… but I actually only remember them if I click on one of those months way down near 2003-2004 and read a few posts. Not only was I a completely different person, but it sure seems like I had a lot to say. I have captured some of my finest written words in these pages. Poems, songs, and passages that my dad likes to call “waxing rhetoric” or philosophic or sentimental or whatever flavor wax I feel is appropriate that day. For me, reading these posts helps to strike the same notes that brought them about, and at this time in my life I feel that nostalgic note-striking is probably the greatest purpose that this website can fulfill. What is invisible to most readers, especially in my more recent years’ posts, is the searing heartbreak I’ve been in and out of, the tumult of a swiftly changing life and the day-to-day dynamic of relationships. I’ve always loved having a co-author like Jon to provide an entirely different perspective, whose posts are inter-woven with all of my own.

I’ll be honest: when I started this thing, I imagined blogging far into the future, like dad’s family newsletter, reporting with breaking news about my future children and their wacky wonderment of the world. How far off is that? Another 6 years? More? I was thinking about blogging on davidcomeaux.com for decades, apparently. I really hope I’ll get that far, but for now, I’m just going to keep this thing alive, hoping I have some time to sit down and write a post every now and then.

Thanks for reading the blog.

Ok so a quick update.

• It’s summer. It’s over 100 degrees outside. It’s a mild 75 inside my house. Comeauxs: 1, Sun: 0
• I’ve been recording Nick Lavin’s newest music and have been trying to get it all down before he leaves for 2nd year of med school on July 15.
• The economy is cramping my lifestyle, and Des and I are scratching around at ways to save some bucks (Des says cut the grocery bills, Dave says Oh Please No Anything But That).
• Oliver, the big dog, has bizarrely begun to misbehave and eat the cat’s food, and if there’s no food, he’ll indulge in the litterbox goodies. Speckle, the little dog, who used to be bloodthirsty for the cat, now walks with feline fear in her heart.
• We’ve been eating a lot more fruit lately, since all the good stuff is in season. The smell of a ripe nectarine is somewhere in the vicinity of The Most Delicious Smell Ever.
• Not hanging out with friends enough, especially those still living in baton rouge. Must work on this.
• BOTH of my sisters were in town at the same time for a general summertime/father’s day visit. That was unendingly humorous.
• Julie got me to go running with her, and ever since she left I’ve been telling myself to wake up and do it again but I haven’t. Fail.
• Des goes to Baton Rouge like 3 times a week for Paramedic training, and she’s really good at grossing me out with ER stories.
• I have been to England twice in 3 months, and that reminds me… I still haven’t posted any photos of my trip!! ok, make that priority post no. 1
• Talking about posting photos reminds me that I have to re-vamp the photos pages, because they are SO OLD and outdated
• I think that over the 6 year history of this blog, i’ve updated the photo pages like 4 times. I’m not as quick as dear old dad with the photo updates.

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