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24-hours ago, my wife was presented with the possibility of going to Stockholm for some training. She just told me an hour ago that she's been approved, booked and ticketed for the trip, and she leaves in a week-and-a-half!

Talk about no mucking around!!

She'll be gone from Saturday the 11th, to Saturday the 18th! Ah!

The thing is, I'll be at ( Read more... )

Well, I now know what inspired the 'chuck' in Chuck E. CheeseMy youngest nephew turned 3 today, and my sister let him pick where he'd like to go for dinner. My sister then apologized to all 14 of the invited adults who had to endure the sadistic mouse factory of pseudo-pizza and noise. I mean, the pizza crust was actually sweet! Not to mention ( Read more... )

I recently went over to archer4j's house - we've been friends 30+ years - just to see his family and check some remodel work they'd been doing. While I was there, he drug out all sorts of sketch pads and drawings we'd done over the years, going back to our Junior High School days. It was kind of weird ( Read more... )

The latest excavation of my studio has unearthed all manner of things - including things I didn't even remembering having. One of these discoveries was a stack of papers over 3-inches thick, consisting of nothing but printouts of my emails from late-1999, to early-2004. The thing was, I hadn't remembered ever printing these out! Not wanting to ( Read more... )

Some years ago I did up an icon/avatar for my wife, basing it on her Chinese Zodiac sign - the Tiger. I'd also meant to do one for paxnirvana as well, but I never felt I could do any sort of justice to a feminine version of her Chinese Zodiac sign - the Dragon ( Read more... )

Not too surprisingly, I disappeared for over 2-months again. I do that...

The past month has seen me doing the traditional Spring Things, prepping for taxes and doing some serious cleaning. 3-weeks, and a lot of help from Craig's List, got us our garage back. (It still surprises me walking out into the whole uncluttered-ness of it all!) I've ( Read more... )

My wife discovered this weekend that not only had my license expired in December, but so had my car tabs ( Read more... )

Last Saturday my younger sister and her family hosted Christmas for my half of the family. 17 of us packed into their modest Ranch house and made a pig's breakfast of the evening (but in an enjoyable way). And thanks to the fact that snow had messed up all sorts of plans, and that many of us had been all over the world in recent months, we used ( Read more... )

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