Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Merry Christmas (belated) and a Happy New Year to all of you. I’ve been very busy with prepping some homemade gifts and doing a lot of the other projects I mentioned in my earlier post. Still trying to wrap up a few gift projects that I didn’t finish in time for Christmas Day…

Birthdays!

Tuesday was my dad’s birthday. We got to see him on Wednesday, which was nice. Yesterday was my son’s fourth birthday. He got some nice cards from folks (thanks!) and we took him to Disneyland. I tell you… the Christmas season is starting to feel like the only time where Disney [...]

California’s a real mess

Hey, I wanted to point you to this very interesting article about California’s budget problems that a friend of mine wrote on his web log.

Holy Terror

Here’s a description of the plot for an old movie I just saw:
A large group of college students get a bus and drive out to the middle of the desert. Loaded on top of the bus are various props and costumes… they are going to the desert to put on a show. Everyone [...]

Early Birthday Presents

Just got an e-mail today that Not Lame has shipped the new Owsley CD that I pre-ordered (per the tip from Joe)! Woo-Hoo! I’ll let you know how it is after a few spins.
Another early birthday present that I got while the wife was doing Black Friday shopping was the newest World War [...]

Ugh! We All Got It

Yuck! Friday night the rest of us got that flu that “comes out both ends”. My wife started at 7:00 pm, I started at 2:00 that night and my son started an hour after that. Needless to say, our big plans to go to Disneyland on what was probably the only Saturday [...]

Poor Little Thing

We’ve been parents for about four years and we have been blessed in that we have never had to deal with a child who is throwing up in the middle of the night… until last night. My poor little girl threw up all over her crib. Mommy picked her up so that I [...]