8 Gallons of water were sucked out of my office carpet by the shop-vac.

8 gallons.

Carpet has now been upgraded from swampy to damp.

Yee. Ha.

...right into our basement.

Damn it.

Tonight I used baking parchment for the first time. It was bloody perfect ( Read more... )

I learned something today ( Read more... )

We finally got the tree up this year. I suppose I should call it a Christmas tree because that's the holiday Tara celebrates with it. Excuse my heresy, but I still find the whole thing hard to swallow ( Read more... )

Ok, had the guy from Roto-Rooter out today. the router they use is much better than the one I rented from home depot ( Read more... )

This is really beginning to piss me off ( Read more... )

Ok, no rain. No snow. Now precipitation of any kind ( Read more... )

Friday after work was spent setting up the 501st booth at the Chicago International Toy and Game Fair. Saturday and Sunday were spent trooping the event, with Sunday evening to take the booth apart ( Read more... )

My son Ryan loves the Force Unleashed game, so he had to be the main character. Of course he didn't like the normal look of the Starkiller, but he loved the Sith Robes:


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