Yes, really.  This gentleman is my advisor at Regis: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/22/brown-palace-santa-undercover-fbi-agent/

I knew he had a law enforcement background; I didn't realize he has this much of a law enforcement background.  Not to mention his more recent undercover operations as St. Nicholas.

Been a while since I've posted.  For those who still check on me here, sorry about that.  It's been busy.  I'm still alive, and as far as I can tell, still in posession of all of my wits.  Graduate school is, well, graduate school.  I've learned a lot, and mostly enjoyed it.  But this last class darn near ate my brain ( Read more... )

I haven't had much of a chance to get my physical life in order recently, in part due to work sucking my energy and soul away thus causing me to have too much butt-couch interface when I get home.  So today, since I'm having company on Sunday afternoon, I decided to kick my butt into some kind of gear and make some serious progress on the ( Read more... )

( Getting closer to done, at least. )

Makes huge changes.
( Chatting about and pictures of said changes under the cut. )

Just in the general sense.  I straightened my bedroom as much as possible, emptied the dishwasher, cleaned the upstairs bathroom, and got all of the things out of the cabinet section of the desk set and into two smallish boxes.  In the process I found a few more things to go to Goodwill.  Just as well; I hadn't taken the last batch in so I added ( Read more... )

It's another.

( Unplanned home repairs. {sigh} )

( Not what I was expecting, but hey, I'll take it. )

Today I started painting the stairwell.  It took this long to get to because I needed to figure out a way to get primer out of the five gallon bucket to a tray without lifting the bucket or making a mess in the process.  Now that I've done it, the answer seems obvious.  {insert V8 smack here.}  Sometimes I wonder about me ( Read more... )

The spice shelf and the tea/hot chocolate shelves (yes, plural) are today's goal to clean out and organize.  Started that just after breakfast and I'm taking a short break while I try to figure out what to do with the spices in plastic bags that have nowhere else to live.  Stuff like fenugreek and ground cubebs which I'm not quite  prepared to just ( Read more... )