Planning and attention to detail? Score a nice birthday weekend for Scotcharina.
She's needed a break from year-end-close-hell at work and this did the trick.

Sharktopus' Gummy Revenge
Saturday's theme: Epic Shark Date Night - the lady digs sharks and that makes
planning easy. Luck came into play as well.

Dinner: Dodie's Cajun -bonus as she used ( Read more... )

Great day yesterday in which I speeded excessively southbound from Dallas to Austin and all the cops were working
the northbound traffic. Plenty of good beer drank and procured with some classic arcade action made this one of the
better birthdays in recent memory.

Black Metal Unleashed
The Whip-in advised me that they would be out of bottled Jester ( Read more... )

HermanoDiablo works till midnight and his current lady-friend does about the same, though both sometimes work later ( Read more... )

Not much of a workday here at High Ridge Ranch with PadreDiablo taking off on a brief roadtrip but tomorrow's another day and there's one working chainsaw. [this is Texas]

We got MadreDiablo to come to the Albert Icehouse for a family friend's 75th birthday BBQ. Everyone always fawns over my mother -probably having to do more with her rare ( Read more... )

“Bring me a bottle of vodka, I can’t go out because parents are here. Momma needs her devil water.”

“Titos? Club soda & limes?”

“That’s why you’re my favorite brother.”

HermanaDiablo’s text message this past Friday indicated things were already looking dire but what could you expect when the night’s celebration centered on a 1-year old? Add to that ( Read more... )

I awoke fully clothed with the cell phone underneath the pillow. At least I remembered to take off my shoes. Then there are last night’s pictures, posts confusing people and the fact that I used the name of a black metal band in an email to my co-workers.

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Today is my 40th birthday. Many thanks for those of you who’ve honored it by sending praise. A certain slow and painful death will come to the non-believers. I am that petty.

Now to construct the day further…

Saturday, while at Lord Calvert’s [PadreDiablo’s cousin] double-wide mansion, I listened intently to family lore which at some points featured -by today’s standards, child abuse. Maybe it was the beer or the homemade chili but my heart was warmed. Got to get together with family more often. Good for the soul and all that jazz.

Entertaining ( Read more... )

Working 18 hr days, surviving on 4 hrs of sleep means only one thing. I’m the On-call for my group this week. Yesterday’s calls started at 5:45pm and kept coming. I think the rule of thumb was everytime I was about to settle into sleep the phone would ring.

However with today being my birthday [respond and pay tribute], I did not let work ( Read more... )