So Maxwell showed up three Sundays ago, and Alison's sister gave birth to HER son yesterday (they're really putting the 'son' in Sunday) so now Alison and her sister have managed to have girls exactly two weeks apart and now sons exactly two weeks apart.

If one of them ever gets pregnant again, it'll have the other running in panic for test kits.

I just discovered that the sweet new game I've been waiting for (Civ V), won't run on my current system.

D'oh!

I may be hijacking my wife's computer. :D

So I needed to clean up the garage so we can get a proper stem wall installed between the house and the garage. About a day before the scheduled start for my cleaning fest, we watched a marathon of the T.V. show Hoarders, and I gotta say, I have never been more motivated to clean stuff up.

Since I stalled out on my vampire novel, Alison suggested I try submitting a proposal to an e-zine that does short stories for 'hidden world' themes. The outline I came up with is much more a serialized novella than a series of 12 short stories, but it was interesting to work on. I'll send it off and prepare for the inevitable rejection, but it ( Read more... )

I picked up a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses for grins and giggles, and discovered that the commentary/translation was done by a biblical literalist who's explination of every fable so far has been "This is a corruption of the events accurately described in the Bible ( Read more... )

Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday ( Read more... )

Hi guys! My Nintendo system is dead never to be seen again, so I figured before ebaying the carts to nameless dweebs on the interwebs, I'd see if any of the named dweebs I know would be interested in them. (They all worked last time the nintendo was working) (Note : You have to take them all and pickup or pay for shipping ( Read more... )

Alison is in training, and the guy likes to use pictures of scuba divers as an allegory to software programmers (don't as me, I'm not in the class.) But apparently he has put up several pictures that remind Alison STRONGLY of the ol' Warhammer picture that I have conveniently turned into an icon for y'all ( Read more... )

I'm not talking about berating you for not hitting the game winning run, or beating your mom while you watch helplessly. I'm talking about rewiring the house, repairing the cars, re-roofing the garage, building us wooden puppets and toys, and being capable of fixing most anything around the house ( Read more... )

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