Damn, I am sore. My legs are in a state of total mutiny. It hurts from my ass to my ankles. On the other hand, I seem to be oddly emotionally invulnerable, today. People have raised their voices, lost their tempers, etc., and I have been the Buddha, in the midst of it all ( Read more... )

hogofheaven and I joined mukor and eyeofmazikeen in the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, VA on July 28th to attend the rousing spectacle of OG goodness that is Depeche Mode ( Read more... )

I helped the neighbor, Misty (her daughter is friends with Amanda) put together a lamp, today. It was nice to be given a problem that I felt more than qualified to solve, for a change ( Read more... )

Fairly acceptable father's day - made my father a huge load of hotwings, and the kids baked brownies with chocolate ganache. Dad responded in kind by providing steak, etc. Bottom line: we ate a LOT. I've been perfecting my hotwing-fu, as it seems to be an essential skill for the kind of rennaissance man I am striving to become. Soon, I may ( Read more... )

Straightened things out with one of the collections agencies, repaired some second-hand speakers and assembled a new sound system for my basement studio, spent an evening with Cristin (watched Disturbia, which, though I hesitate to open myself to ridicule in this way, was a pretty decent movie) while Janice went out and partied, discovered that ( Read more... )

It was terribly cleansing to my soul to stay up until 3:00 with Josh and Mary, last night. Even if all we did was drive to Emory for no reason, and go to the Huddle House ( Read more... )