The end of another DecadeDance

Moving halfway through September and trying to get to right now before right now is next year. Let’s make it quick…. I’m going to try something different here – and add all the images at the end… I’m also going to avoid writing about all the nights of sitting around watching 30 Rock, going for [...]

Family Anvils and DJ Dogs

Ok – catch up time. It’s almost Mother’s day, and it’ll be the middle of summer before you know it. So, let’s skip back with a spring in our step to the pre-Europe days of March 2009. I had been hinting at some black kites changes, and I hate to say that my paranoid mind [...]

london, budapest, paris, london.

So there’s more words to fall before the trip, and a few from after, but for right now, we’ll take a little step out of time, like it’s an episode of Lost or something, and hit just that one week where Shelley and I shoved as much as possible into a week long European Vacation. [...]

the ice in boston is pretty

here we are, heading towards the end of january 2009, and already many changes. new president. that’s a big one here. i hope it all goes well. but to get from the last post to right now, we gotta start last year. december ’08. the 17th and the 18th – 2 nights of metallica in [...]

moving thru december

Alright, gonna try and get everything covered, get up to date before the Holly-Daze hits…. so much to do in the next couple of weeks, and i just wish i could curl up with the pups and sleep for a while… November ended with a very good thanksgiving meal at our house with Amy and [...]

crocodiles and christmas

So, heading ever closer to that 2008. time to start wrapping up the year and getting ready to start again. It’s sort of predictable, but sometimes you just can’t help it. So – some endings before the begins.First off, I just want to send holiday hopes and good new year wishes to all those formerly [...]

vancouver to disneyland…

Friday October 26th, get up, finish packing, head to work. Shelley and I leave for the airport around 1, get there just in time… to find that our flight has been delayed for a couple of hours. it’s times like this that i’m so thankful for technology. we plug in the computer, pull out a [...]

Hollywood Mom

Thursday evening my mom arrives from Vancouver for a short weekender visit. Shelley picks her up at LAX and brings her back to the office – “Look Ma, I’m in a Cubicle!” – Shelley and I finish up some stuff, and around 6 pm it’s off to the house, where we have a nice little [...]