It was an ordinary evening.  Nothing much happening. Seanie and I were just hanging out an starting to think that it might be time to go to bed ( Read more... )

Seanie washed the French press yesterday and its pieces were scattered all over the kitchen counter. It's morning and I need coffee, but I couldn't remember how to put them together. I asked Seanie to fix it while he was still in bed. He told me to bring the pieces to him, so I did, and he assembled everything while lying on his back with his ( Read more... )

Recently money's been a little tight, so Seanie is trying something new to put a little cash in our pockets. He's signed up to be a driver for Door Dash, one of those fancy Internet start-up companies. You order food through the app, and one of their drivers picks it up and brings it to your home ( Read more... )

2016 New Year's Resolutions

Eliminate blogging backlog
k00kaburra : up from 509 to 532 entries
fashion_piranha : up from 151 to 165 entries
So...nope.

Get my weight to match my driver's license.
Nope.

Roam and ramble the world a bit.
January: Denver
April: Tokyo
May: Chicago
June: Orlando

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Last weekend, we had a big sale at the store. Everything in stock was 20% off, with select items discounted up to 50% off. It led to a productive weekend, sales-wise. While I don't think the store was that much busier than usual, the transactions were much larger than usual as people stocked up on books. The extra cash from the weekend will be ( Read more... )

Seanie's brother moved out of the duplex at the beginning of April to his new place, a rental belonging to Seanie's mom. He's not far away, just on the other end of the Willow Glen neighborhood. When he and his wife left, not all of their stuff went with them. He has been storing multiple vehicles, some lawn furniture, and a lot of miscellaneous ( Read more... )

Today was a little different from the normal routine at the bookstore.  An artist named Karl Johnson came to the store to cut silhouette portraits for our customers.  Appointments for a sitting have been sold out for weeks ( Read more... )

I haven't written about my nephews in a long time.  I don't see them very often, especially now that their parents have split up.  They spend much of their time in Morgan Hill and Gilroy, closer to where their mother lives ( Read more... )

Awesome Pack #5
My boss was on vacation for a big chunk of July, and then we had a string of events.  When I got home in the evenings, I was so tired that all I wanted to do was zone out with a book or by watching TV.  Seanie and I played hardly any games at all.  I hope we'll have more time this month for our new Awesome Pack games.


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