The last time made any kind of an update to this thing I mentioned my mother's brother having cancer. I'm going to start out by saying he's still fine and alive. He's recovering and his wife is recovering from her Crohn's related surgery. That said, the last few months have been a series of emotional ups and downs for my family. On the ups side ( Read more... )

Life sucks. Karma, Murphy, and whoever is in charge of the universe can shove it. My uncle has cancer and he'll damn lucky if he's still alive in five years. There's more but I'm really not allowed to say what's going on yet. Still there's at least some good stuff going on like my brother getting married this December and my niece starting high ( Read more... )

Yes I am alive here. But more on that later. Anyhow, I know a good portion of you friends list are into the Japanese music scene and can either name practically every album every group put out or know where to find such information. I have a buddy who's big into the early hip hop and Jazz funk sounds. He loves anything that has to do with 80s ( Read more... )

...Easter candy ( Read more... )

...to Disney pins ( Read more... )

Just to let you all know I'm currently on the road to Disney. My brother is doing the Goofy Challenge this weekend (over thirty miles of running in two days)and we're going to watch the race and spend time with him and his girlfriend. So I'm currently sitting in a room at a Holiday Inn Express in Effingham. We left later than we thought we would ( Read more... )

It's Just Some Random Guy offers this little DC spin on a beloved holiday classic.

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To quote the opening of my entry from Oct. 27th, 2008 at 7:13 PM, "Seven letters: I AM SICK." Once again I'm sick. It started overnight from Sunday to Monday with a dry mouth and an odd sounding voice. Then, it hit. Monday morning I went to take pictures for my sister (crap I need to get them to her) and by the time I got home around lunchtime ( Read more... )

Back in August as the Olympics were beginning and we hit the date 08-08-08 I took part in the Worldwide Moment movement. At the time the moment took place I was in the mood to photograph my good old Aang action figure. I saw the time on my watch and figured I had no choice but to use one of my shots of Aang. So I sent in the photo and proceeded ( Read more... )

Hey all after eight months of Gwee I decided to change my journal layout. For the first time in a while I'm no longer using any outside images. The entire layout is completely Photoshop produced. I'm still working on perfecting the technique used for the header but it's a lot better than my first attempt at it. Expect to see a new user info ( Read more... )