A few weeks ago, oldest_song and I attended a Zombie Apocalypse Live Action Roleplaying Game. It was a total blast.

In preparation for play, I had to equip myself.

This was my first attempt at painting a Nerf gun - and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. There will be more of this in my future, methinks. :)


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New Year's Eve pics of the event at the Blackwell/McLean Residence.

A warm and wonderful celebration - Nicci and I were glad we made it there before the midnight toast.


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Sparklemas 2007 pics - better late than never. mskoi was a marvelous host.

This picture says it all. So what if they're wearing bunny ears and it's Sparklmas. Both holidays were co-opted anyway. ;)


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Yesterday, I packed up my three guitars (Fender Japanese Strat, Ovation Celebrity Acoustic-Electric, and my Yamaha 12-String Acoustic) and brought them down to Guitar Center as trade-ins. Recent plans made it obvious to me that paring down my stuff made much sense [DVDs and CDs don't count - don't make me go there ( Read more... )

Many thanks to my Mom for emailing the long-awaited pictures of my niece, Phoenix Tamathina Wiley Burbank. And those picture captions are no lie. Lealyn did 30 hours of labor, drug free, to bring the poundspawn into the world.

My sister roxorz. And now - Phoenix:


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Ravenloft 2007 was a resounding success! Many thanks to everyone who participated - I had a blast running. :)

And now we present, MC Darcy, Lord of Ravenloft - aka Strahd Fu:


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We celebrated in style last night at Dave2's and mcleanj01's residence. Game Night the night before kept me up until the early AM - when I finally rolled out of bed, I made the creative flash of what my costume would be this year:


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During my Boston visit, oldest_song and I visited the Boston Brewing Company [aka Samuel Adam's Brewery] in Jamaica Plain. On the way there, we were shocked to find this poor guy out on the streets:


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In Boston, preparing the evening meal with oldest_song, I was presented with a package of mysterious bean curd purchased at the Alston version of Uwajimaya. The label read: "Halogen Flavored Tofu".

Your VIQ: What in *Red Heaven* is "Halogen Flavored"?


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Still waiting on photos of the Poundspawn. In the interim, have a photo of our trip up to the cabin to live, quoth Blake "a true Southern experience". Abandoned real estate. Beer. Semi-automatic rifles (got to shoot a 10/22, AK-47 and SKS). w00t!


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