We stayed up way later than we meant to trick or treating and waiting for the Great Pumpkin Sunday night. It was really the first time Oliver had been able to go Trick or Treating, and although it took him a couple of stops to figure out what was going on, once he did figure it out, he pushed past everyone else, ran to the door of the next house, ( Read more... )

...Only this time, the blue bastard isn't coming with him.

My buddy Ryan Cordell, who inherited the Blue Bastard from us last year, and drove it across the country to his sometimes home in Illinois, is leaving his other sometimes home in South Korea today.  On a freighter.  To LA.  He's due to arrive in Long Beach in 10 days.  I'm excited about ( Read more... )

Back by popular demand!!!!  More Tales of the Blue Bastard!!!!  With a picture!!!!

Have Baptism, Need Towels!

(We start the scene with me and Cordell getting into the Blue Bastard, towels in hand)

Me: I meant to get your car washed before you got here, but, well, you know.

(I throw a bunch of wrappers, coke cans, papers, and cds into the back seat so ( Read more... )

My buddy Cordell is in town from Korea this week and next week he'll be taking our 89 Toyota Camry on a roadtrip across the country for the remainder of the summer.  We were going to give it away to charity at the beginning of the year but when we heard Cordell needed a ride, we decided he was the best kind of charity, and it's been sitting in the ( Read more... )

Claire started preschool today.  This brings up a lot of weird emotions in me, not because I'm worried about how she'll do, but because I'm not sure how *I'm* going to do.  I mean, she's not supposed to be in pre-school yet.  She wasn't born that long ago, she can't really be old enough.  Sigh ( Read more... )