The Blog of Texas-Fire.com Founder Kirke Phillips

Tunes, Volume I…..

August 23rd, 2008

Change is for punks……

August 17th, 2008

Craig Biggio’s number was retired today. I think I like baseball best of all the sports for two reasons; first is I never played it and second, most folks won’t sit and watch it with me. It requires long periods of not talking and even longer periods of not stating the obvious such as football or basketball. My buddy calls baseball nothing more than “golf with defense” and has declared it the most useless sport of all time. Although I challenge that he has never had to sit through a cricket match, I say ‘fine, more $7.00 beer for me’. Read More »

Water Power Welder….

May 11th, 2008

Firefighters have to cut stuff, we’re always around water; hmmm…. check this out !

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We Are But Mere Mortals….

May 01st, 2008

This is simply amazing….

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Money For Your Conveyance, Calculate Your Stimulus

March 21st, 2008

Tax time is right around the corner, and as such we are all preparing to spend our big-ass returns; right? Yeah, I have to pay this year (also). Not as much as Fookie (I Win Again!), but still, I hate paying the government when they have proven to be such mischievous spenders. And to think, Republicans would have me believe that it is my sandal wearin’ hippie freak Demo friends that are taking all my hard earned greenbacks to give to the poor. It’s probably Hillary’s fault, or that Obama Bin Laden dude.

This is not, repeat not, a political post, simply another in the long line of ‘hey check this out’. So, check this out ! Read More »

I can’t feel my ass, but my family tree is H U G E !!

March 06th, 2008

This past couple of weeks has been rather hectic. I walked out in the middle of a fire officer training class because apparently the guy teaching the class was too busy worrying about how good his resume sounded to all of us rather than concentrating on the fact that he is a racist. So, yeah. Might wanna have somebody look into a background before you hire a guy. Could be helpful. I did learn this, however; Don’t ever just ‘assume’ that the participants in the class you’re teaching want to hear your version of the origin of the word honky. Christ that guy was a friggin’ idiot. But ! The instructor for the morning class (yeah, I walked on a class 1 hour after returning from the lunch break on the first day; what?) brought cookies. Oh My God they were good. And I am a fat person, people (see rest of story). Hands down, after my grama’, and mama, the best damn Peanut Butter cookies I’ve had in my short 30 sumthin’ years. Thanks for those Chief ! Also, the pyramid built on the foundation of credibility using the management styles and theories as the upper stones was actually very neat and I will keep that close, remember it, and try to use that personally. Now, on to the real point of this post: I’m Fat, and My family is also huge…. Read More »