Calfgrit11 said, “Dad, it looks like there’s an angel over our garage.”

Bullgrit

Last year, with my family’s support — helping me when they could, and leaving me alone to work when I needed the time — I added the t-shirt store to this website. This was a big and exciting step for us, but a rather obvious one, really. I mean, adding dad t-shirts to a website for my dad blog is a no-brainer. It was one of those things that we wonder, “What took us so long to do this?”

Designing dad t-shirts is just so dang fun, too. And then having people comment on my t-shirts when they see me wearing one is almost as exciting as selling one.

Speaking of selling the t-shirts, this has been our best selling design so far:

I rather like it myself, and wear mine fairly often. For a little piece of trivia, that minivan in the design is drawn from our family’s actual minivan.

That hero standing in front of the minivan in the t-shirt design, is that me you may wonder? You be the judge:

. . .

Naw, it ain’t me. I’m just a dad, geek, and good ol’ boy; I’m no superhero. The closest I’ve come to mutating a power from radiation is keeping a farmer’s tan even into the winter.

Anyway.

Our t-shirt store is growing. We’re marketing, we’re selling, and we’re building, (virtually, electronically). And we’ve discovered an unexpected fact about selling dad t-shirts: it’s the ladies who are buying them. By a margin of 2-1, women are buying these shirts more than men. Presumably, their buying for their men, but who knows, maybe these t-shirt designs are more unisex than I thought.

I’m looking forward to this new year. More dad blogging, more dad t-shirts, more work, more play. We have a lot of fun and effort ahead of us, and we’re ready to go. I expect 2012 to be a glorious year.

Thank you very much for visiting and reading and shopping.

Bullgrit

My wife and sons got me a Shiatsu Massage Cushion from The Sharper Image for Christmas. Here’s what it looks like when strapped into my home office desk chair:

Those red lights are balls that roll around and move up and down from the bottom to the top.

Here’s what it looks like with a lazy good ol’ boy enjoying it:

Yeah, I’m working hard. Listening to some Led Zepplin, (Christmas gift from my bother). I had to listen to rock and roll just to balance out the relaxation, else my heart rate would fall too low in the comfort. If I had been listening to something like Enya, I fear my heart would just completely stop.

Honestly, I didn’t expect that mechanical massage cushion to actual feel good, but I was totally surprised. No, it’s not equal to living hands, especially on bare skin, but I gotta admit, it’s good. It automatically turns off after 15 minutes, (I guess so you don’t massage yourself to death), and I clicked it back on repeatedly for a couple hours in a row before I decided I probably should get up and move around.

Between the mechanical movements and the heat option, I wonder what our electric bill will look like each month if I use this regularly.

Bullgrit

Happy New Year, everyone! 2011 was a pretty good year for my family, and I really hope it was for yours, as well. 2012 has the potential to be even better, and we’re excited.

I’ve been writing this dad blog since 2007, and I’ve really enjoyed writing every post, (almost 1,300), and I’ve appreciated every comment anyone has left, (over 2,000). I love writing, and would do it even if I had no audience, but I gotta admit it really is more fun knowing people do come here and read my work. Thank you, very much.

Y’all come back, now. Ya hear.

Bullgrit