For the past few months, I have been dealing with a rather serious back injury.  It's called a wedge deformity, and it takes place when some sort of a stressor is placed upon your spine and causes the normally roughly cube-shaped vertebrae to deform into a vaguely wedge-shaped piece of bone and nerves.  It's quite painful, and over the course of ( Read more... )

If anybody wants to buy me this, you will be immediately promoted to Head Minion.  Red and white, XL.

Just saying.  And kidding.  Um, sort of.

Kind of.

Vic Mackey rules.

It's the last evening of my vacation, but I am pretty okay with that.  Unfortunately my wife did not have the week off--we'll have to wait until May for that one--but we were able to spend a good deal of time together since my schedule was not bouncing all over the place like it has been for the majority of this sign-up period.  After the new year ( Read more... )

Salvation has been sent out again.  Wish me luck.

In a completely unrelated note, on this day eighteen years ago I lost my virginity.  It rocked.  Thank you, Lisa.

That is all.

When my wife and I saw How To Train Your Dragon at the local drive-in, after a little while I leaned over to her and whispered:

"Doesn't the way the dragon looks and the expressions on its face sometimes reminds you of Hera?"  (Hera being our tortoiseshell battle kitty, who may be pint-sized but never backs down)

"I was just thinking the same thing ( Read more... )

It was a crappy day at work.

My weekends feel far too short.

I have another three months until vacation.

Haven't heard from Harlequin yet.

(takes big drink from glass of wine)  I think that about covers things.

As you were.

I'm on vacation and I'm doing edits on Underworld.  How little things change--

Oh, wait.  I'm doing it from our lakefront timeshare in Lake Tahoe with a White Russian on one side and some new stuff to read on the other.

Much better.

Today was a nice, relaxing day around the old homestead.  I watched the Oakland A's drop the final game of a four-game series to the Baltimore Orioles, said loss being mollified by the fact we won the previous three games against them.  We got my books at the local library (The Rocket Who Fell to Earth: An Unauthorized Biography of Roger Clemens by ( Read more... )

I am very, very pleased to be in the last two days of tax season.  As many of you know, my long-suffering wife Lady Jade is an accountant by trade, so the last three months of so have seen a curtailing of our usual amount of togetherness.  Along with the recent change to my schedule (I wake up at four-fucking-forty-five in the morning for work), it ( Read more... )

First off, I did a little Ebaying yesterday.  No great shock there.  I got Ghost Rider on blu-ray for under $15 (including the S&H) which I was quite happy about.  If you haven't seen that movie in high-def, you really should; this format was invented for popcorn flicks just like that.  Coupled with the copy of Quantum of Solace that Mad Evil Chris ( Read more... )