I’m doing the AIDS Walk again this year. I never quite got what the deal was with these sorts of things. Why are you paying someone else to do some physical activity? I finally sussed out is that you’re paying to have a representative participate in a fund and awareness raising activity. By that reasoning, you’re getting a bargain donating to my ( Read more... )

Prince Jeffrey $25

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Day of the Dead Painter $100

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Here's what i've got on display at the City of The World Gallery this month, in three bite size chunks

First, the overview of my wall.

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Right after I posted my "return to LJ" thing I discovered that the external Hard Drive with.... Well, pretty much everything on it was acting weird and making noises. I finally got around to taking it in for repairs last week and it's very dead. I think that may be the end of the Stratosphere project and any projects that might have sprung from it ( Read more... )

So, About the time i posted the last of my Great Britain pictures, I switched over to a new computer with the latest version of iPhoto. I played with it a bit, and while I love the face recognition and tagging tools, I hate the fact it stores the photos in a place only accessible from iPhoto. I can't seem to get over the fact I can't just open up a ( Read more... )

Our penultimate day was a long rocket from Conwy to Glouchester, looking for a hotel modern enough to have internet. We found it and Jef booked transportation and lodging for the next leg of the trip, where he would be taking a class on the isle of Jersey. We finally broke out the Scrabble that evening and Jef kicked my butt ( Read more... )

On the day before, when I was pushing my poor brother across Wales, trying to get to someplace large enough to have a hotel, it was Llandudno I was trying to get to, based purely on the way it looked on the map. It looked like a place that would have a hotel, and if it didn't, there were several other towns nearby that seemed likely suspects. Doc's ( Read more... )

Honestly, there was a time when I was even worse about climbing on things I shouldn't

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My plans for the morning had to be put aside this morning due to some unexpected, yet delightful guests. Vicious monsters. I was seriously in danger of being licked to death. The owners managed to beat animal control to them.

( Pics behind cut in deference to the pit bull averse. )