Yep.. still alive... just mostly living on Facebook these days, but there was enough in this past weekend to merit posting it all here ( Read more... )

4 stores, several nights. (Now, I know, if you want a costume, best is to do it yourself. My youngest daughter couldn't really brainstorm up something. Rachael, on the other hand, envisioned, and aquired all the bits for her pokemon trainer costume on her own. I was impressed ( Read more... )

For those who don't know.. I keep a list of movies that I have all my close friends sit through, with the exception of one movie, which is long, and a bit esoteric.. (Thank you Shancara for watching it ( Read more... )

Shortly after 4 this afternoon, my wife had a shortness of breath, went pale, threw up, and said her chest hurt. No.. not a heart attack ( Read more... )

As a followup to my 'must see' list.. this list is a bunch of movies that are just too damn good to miss out on.

The Great Race
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
A Funny Thing Happend on the Way to the Forum
The Producers
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The First Men in the Moon
The Mouse that Roared (a better book)
Being ( Read more... )

Periodically, I put out a list of movies that people who hang out with me will be forced to view at one point or another because I think they are good movies, they say something about who I am, or they'll clue people in on some of the more obscure references I make.

Here they are, with some links to information about them.

1. The Quiet Man
2. ( Read more... )

I know I have mentioned it a lot recently, and certainly among my friends, that my father had passed away at far too young an age, from leukemia. To the dozens of people, maybe hundreds, that are reading this, you probably have no idea why I would dwell on this so much, or be so torn up about it. Everyone's father is different. Some have great ( Read more... )