Just got back from another Myrtle Beach excursion, this one timed to Danielle's birthday, and with four friends along. Everything went decidedly well, and even when the birthday dinner didn't quite meet standards and expectations, it still turned out good. Now we are home, and I am settling back in, and Danielle is reading her brand-new Kindle ( Read more... )

I'M OFF TO DRAGGIN' CORN! YEEEHAWWW!!!

I'm pretty psyched about Dragon*Con now. I don't know exactly where in the complex we'll be beside "The fourth hotel" because of our reservations, but the nice part is that we're in the same area as the con, but in one of the buildings that the con is not. We will have a (reasonably) quiet retreat when we are not in the midst of things ( Read more... )

Beach trip went pretty well, aside from my getting sick the first night there and staying pretty ick from then until, oh, this morning. The fates lean against me having good rest or fun unmolested. Still, it was a good trip, and generally very relaxing. Fairly mellow and stable throughout the week, too. Not bad ( Read more... )

We will be spending a couple days at a beach house now. We'll be back Thu-hurrs-day. Woot!

It was a blissful nine days of slack. So slack, we barely even planned out any slacking. We did some necessary shopping the first couple of days, then some unnecessary shopping after that, via some extra earnings from Danielle's job. Then we... uh... hell. We sat on our asses, played games, had fondue at the Melting Pot, visited my mom, and ( Read more... )

Vacation starts tomorrow ( Read more... )

New year's was a good bit more exciting than my birthday, I must admit. Lots of people came over, and quite enough ruckus was raised that I would call things a party ( Read more... )

The most important detail, to me, about this stupid 'incident' is that they have canceled my scheduled vacation, which was to start Sunday on my birthday. There's a possibility I might get it before the end of the quarter (January), but if not... Well, that ain't going to happen. And I am definitely going to get my birthday off. Period. End of ( Read more... )

( The New York Trip went quite well, if unnecessarily warm. )