Annoucing StapletonFamily.US

Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!

Just wanted to publish a quick post and let you know that the Jake Stapleton web dynasty has split again.

As of today all the “Family postings” have been exported out of Jakestapleton.com and imported into Stapletonfamily.us, this site will now become the central repository of all the Stapleton family updates.  Jakestapleton.com will now revert back to content that he deems worthy to publish, however Jake’s political opinions will still reside at Jakesopinion.com

So please make note in the browser of your choice and happy reading!

Apparently I Have Always Been A Male Model

I arrived home this week from my business travels to a birthday card from my sister Nancy.  Apparently she picked it up back in February and had been holding it every since.  The picture on the front of the card caught her eye (for obvious reasons) and she knew it was the card for me.

The card has further bolstered the notion that I should pursue one of my dreams to be a male model.  I can just see the ad campaign now, a picture of me, a little Barry White in the back ground, and underwear with a cape.

The Birthday Card

And a picture of me and Dad circa 1979 or 1980

A little trouble getting in the Spirit

I have to admit that this year I have had trouble getting in the Christmas Spirit. Not with the true meaning and spirit of Christmas the birth of Christ but just with I guess the secular Christmas stuff you might say? I am having trouble expressing this thought so before I twist this around to where no one can understand it let me just say it this way

The birth of Christ our savior I am good with.
The spirit of giving this time of year I am good with.
Everything else large and small in between I am just kind of blahhhh.

I can’t really explain why I have been blah this Christmas.  The blessings that my family and I have received this year are truly too numerous to count.  Maybe I am just tired and really need the next 13 days that I have planned off we’ll see.  (but back to the point of the post)

Then we get to today, when I received the video below in an email today from a friend.  It just made me smile and just kicked me out of my Christmas Blah.

So if you are experiencing the Christmas Blah this year I hope it does the same for you.

Thanks Kathy Smith for yanking me out of the Christmas Blah.

A surprise in a Christmas Card

While opening the mail today I received a little surprise. In the Christmas Card from my Uncle Phillip and Aunt Delores they stuck in this old picture.

Me & Trigger 1981

I can not tell you the last time that I thought about Trigger the horse in the picture. He was kept on my grandfather’s Farm in Jackson County.

Thanks for the old memories and bringing a random smile to my face today.

Today is 3 years

Yep its hard to believe that three years ago today we moved into what was then our “new house”.  Since then we have remodeled the entire house finishing up the inside during my vacation in October of last year.  Which was not all that bad when you think about all the days I have been on the road.  Technically we have been in the house 1095 days and of those days I have spent about 225 nights on the road.  So if you do the math I have been gone 20% of the time that we have owned the house (29% of the time if you just count business days).

Enough math now the important bit.  Like any good homeowner I have before and after pictures showing all the work.  Sure I could just post the pics but a movie is always better enjoy!

Changes to the Jake Stapleton Web Dynasty

I will no longer be posting to my FriendFeed account.  The service rocks but with it recently being purchased by Facebook it just reminded me that I am relying on a service to archive my web content that I really have no control over.  So I am going to begin using twitter and my own WordPress implementations to archive and distribute content myself. (with a little help from twitter)

My personal web page can be found as always at www.jakestapleton.com with my personal twitter account being backed up there once a week in the form of a post.

My more opinionated content can be found at www.jakesopinion.com a more recently launched site so that JakeStapleton.com can remain for personal use and updates only.  (There is also a link to the Jake’s opinion content in the sidebar of jakestapleton.com)

I also have a twitter account just for my more opinionated web content it can be found at http://twitter.com/jakesopinion this twitter account will be backed up daily in the form of a post at www.jakesopinion.com and will replace the recent “things you outta know” postings. (Really enjoyed doing them just too many time constraints) This should enable me to get more content out in a timely fashion with my busy schedule.

Many of you may think that this is just silly to do all this.  However I also know that many of you read my links and articles and use them as a source of news and maybe on some rare occasions insights and I would like to keep that up.  Plus with the things going on today the more informed you are the better off you will be.

I am still debating on continuing to use twitter to update my facebook status but time will tell on that one.  Some much information to share and so little time to do it in.

Yes I know I really should be working on other things like stuff that actually earns me a living but I do find this relaxing.  Everyone have a great week.

You can see everywhere I am on the web here.