Yesterday I had the chance to teach 3rd through 5th graders what I know about drawing comic strips and comic books as part of our elementary school's Enrichment Day.  It was a little tough for me because A.) that's a subject that needs a little more time than an hour can provide, and B.) I'm used to teaching older kids, so I wanted to keep it ( Read more... )

Soooo... this was a week.  Started off still in slight panic mode because of the financial situation and Katie's new job still not coming through.  Then it came through... but Katie was notified the night before that she was starting the following morning.  So we had to scramble to finagle ride logistics and such because I was scheduled to work ( Read more... )

Wow, my last entry here - which was in 2014 - was a television meme? Lame ( Read more... )

It's been so, so long since I did one of these, and I stole the idea from cloverdew to just do it all in one go (since I don't frequent LJ as much any more). Feel free to waste some time reading this if you're into television.

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled.There are quite a few on this list, but the one that has always bugged me the ( Read more... )

At my current job I've had an interesting relationship with one of my coworkers, now an ex-coworker (more on that in a moment). The guy in question was hired on several months before myself and the others who are currently in our department, so he was more or less our trainer and boss when we started. And I couldn't stand him. Turns out he's a ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's been a while. You probably don't even remember me ( Read more... )

I don't want to sound like I'm panhandling the few remaining friends who still hang around LiveJournal, and I'm certainly not pressuring anyone into anything, but I'm going to mention my Kickstarter campaign here for those of you who might be interested.  If you don't know what Kickstarter is, it's a crowd-funding site (like Indie-go-go) for ( Read more... )

It's tough to get a slap-in-the-face type of moment to put things into perspective.  I was going to do a whiny post today about how much Halloween means to me and how it basically didn't exist for me this year, but after reading a very serious and honest post from a close friend earlier, I couldn't.  It just made me feel all "first world problems" ( Read more... )

I just learned that my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Wilcox, passed away.  While I don't have any strong ties to her, she was still very significant in my life. I went to a small Catholic school, so everyone - teachers and students - were close in a way that doesn't happen in a big public school (or a big Catholic school, really).  She was stern, ( Read more... )

Figured I'd do a quick write-up about my brother's bachelor party.  I know some of you aren't into the whole drinking-and-partying thing, which is cool (heck, I'm getting too old to do it anymore... more on that), but I thought maybe some of you would get a chuckle out of the shenanigans.

We held the bachelor party at my aunt's cottage, the same ( Read more... )