As I already noted, we’re back from our vacation. It was a good trip, relaxing. Despite the lost baggage incident, it went as excellently as a vacation could. A couple hours at the beach each day, mostly sunny, no sunburns, visits to historic Civil War era sites (I could feel my interest re-kindling). Didn’t feel […]
What a trip! Details to follow. Or check out the above slideshow in its natural habitat.
What a week… The kind of week where you think to yourself Man, do I need a vacation… And this week I get lucky because I do have a vacation! A. & I ship out tomorrow for what appears to be our first ever “real” vacation. Just me and her. A long way from home. […]
There is something extremely cathartic about this rain, this first downpour of the spring. currently playing: Junior Boys “Birthday”
Short version: Fun is where you find it. Funny how fun a night will turn out to be when you don’t expect it. “Short walk?” “Sure!” Hours later… You’ve admitted secret desires for industrial’s come back while at the same time spending half you’re night talking about house music, how you love to play it […]
The gig this past weekend was both incredibly fun and incredibly draining. As I mentioned to a couple of folks already: it was the first time playing some records felt like … er … work. Pete pointed out that a four hour set will do that to a person. Still, such an incredibly good time. […]
Back from our exhaustingly quick MD trip and jotting a few notes down while I wait for round 1 round 2 of the pictures to get uploaded to Flickr… Surprise party for A.’s dad was a huge success. There was (of course?) the challenge of convincing him to leave the house for a sufficiently long […]
Given the available evidence, every morning that does not begin with coffee and comics before I leave the house is merely a prelude to a bad day. Some might call this superstition. Some would claim that correlation does not equal causation. And there may be something to these assertions. Nevertheless, the evidence continues to mount: […]
teh m00se is out of surgery. and doing well. eating “adult foods” like popsicles, she reports. we all like good news. Flickr seems to be down and seems to have been for hours. which (among other things) means that you’re probably not reading this until well after it’s been published 1. we all hate bad […]