Photos from saturday's awesomeness are now up in Ginger's Birthday Party (Steampunk Mystery) gallery.

I thought it would be fun to convert this group shot to sepia such that it looks old in keeping with the steampunk/victorian/19th century theme. My original intent was to do this for individual photos, but i really don't have very many and i'm not even close to having a shot of everyone, so i decided to just do it to this one.

Anyway - enjoy. :-)

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...If i came home from vacation and there *wasn't* a penguin in my freezer.

As of last night, we've returned from the far-off land of Arkansas. The vacation was good, but i'm glad to be back.

EDIT: Other pictures from the vacation have been posted. I recommend you at least check out these two.

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Whew, I've made it back. That's a lot of driving for a 24-hour period. Still well worth it though. Much fun was had (although, I hear the jeep was misbehaving while I was gone). ....Oh, and what would a trip to see Kevin be without the subsequent inheritance of fun-yet-obsoleted tech toys?

So yeah, i've downloaded the concert pics from my camera, sorted through them, pulled out the best ones and posted them on the site in the Cat's Cradle Gallery. They're a little noisy, but the exported jpeg's clean up pretty well at the small, web-friendly resolution and I'm quite happy with the results. I think i got some good stuff there. :-)

I've also expanded Anselm and Paddington's Gallery, which now included a few pics of Stitch and Dharma.

Anyway, I'm tired. Later.

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Just a quick entry mostly to point out some updates to the Gallery -

Friday we had an open mic night at the the coffeehouse. Ginger & I took some pictures - I've put some of 'em up in a gallery for the coffeehouse. Had a good turn out too. Perhaps the open mic's will have a bit more success this year...

Saturday we had a good gaming session, and then Sheri & I took Ally over to Nick's house. Ally had never really been somewhere to play with other's pets before. That was fun. You can't pay for entertainment that good. :) Got some pretty good pictures from that in Ally's Gallery as well.

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Well, we made it back from our trip to IN alright. We had a great time. It was nice to get to hang out with our families and relax - we hadn't been up there since last christmas.

We spent the first half of the week up in the Frankfort area with sheri's grandparents - mostly playing cards and talking and stuff. We also stopped by Sheri's sister's house on our way back down to visit our neices. They're cute.

The second half of the week we spent in Columbus with my parents playing golf (for the first time in 10 years!), bowling, playing some more cards and generally having a good time.

We returned to find some rather impressive post-it art in our livingroom and office. I sort of saw it coming though - since we had all talked before of doing it to someone else's place. Next time the post-it's strike, i want to be in on it.

In some ways I wish we would have had a bit more time up there, but in other ways its good to be back (aside from some computer issues and people spamming my site).

I put some pictures up in the Gallery. Enjoy.

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Take 2

Greetings one and everyone,

Much has transpired since my last entry but, for various reasons, i have been unable to blog about it until this moment.

Most notably, i have moved. Sheri and I closed on our house on the 1st around 5pm. Shortly thereafter, we and a small army of friends descended upon our little apartment and moved everything in it over to the house (about .4 miles away) in 3 hours. Afterwards we went out to dinner to reward our efforts.

The following day, sheri and I left for Arkansas to visit her family. While there we attended her brother's high school graduation party, went to Silver Dollar City in Branson, went out on her dad's boat, and played lots of Shadows Over Camelot. We also camped out on our way to and from. On the trip, we saw several quite amusing landmarks - including Fort Pillow and Yow Chiropractic.

While we were gone, our house was named The Igloo (probably because it's the only place of ours around that has descent air conditioning) and it was thusly decorated with paper snowflakes, cotton snow and blue saran-wrap ice (complete with incased frozen mammoths). We also found a group of stuffed animals gaming in our basement. I hope to have pictures of this stuff up in the gallery soon.

Since we've been back, we have begun organizing the place (though not too much, since we still have to paint pretty much everything), we have tested our washer and dryer (which seemed to work quite well once the hot and cold hoses were reversed), we have acquired a range and a refridgerator and have (finally) got internet access (and there was much rejoicing).

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Project Pink Pirate was a complete success.

For those of you who don't know (due to internet silence on the subject), a few of us had some fun with ginger's apartment while she was out of town last week.

See, our friend ginger is [sarcasm]so fond of the color pink[/sarcasm]... ...and monday, the day she returned was 'national talk like a pirate' day - we decided to take our inspiration from these two facts. Sheri, Tony & I spent a lot of time, effort and a bit of money on what turned out to be the most fun we've had in a while.

First we replaced a bunch of her stuff with very, very pink equivalents. In addition, we placed pirate figures all over her living room (some adorned with pink scarves, etc) and hid plastic pirate gold all over her apartment. She also gained some new...er...'decorations' in the form of a poster and a spiderweb of pink thread criss-crossing her living room. I could describe it more thoroughly, but really, you just have to see it. The link above leads to the Pics page - an entire subsection devoted to this project.

Kevin also called from north carolina and left a message on her machine - it was a sound clip from aerosmith's 'pink'.

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well, since the return from our great expidition out west (where west == "arkansas"), not much has happened here 'cept the usual. For anyone who hasn't seen them, i posted some pictures of the trip here - there's even one of the freezer full of penguins i found when i got back.

i've written and posted a few new songs lately, which makes me feel a bit better about my muscianhood...until recently i hadn't really written much in the last year or so. i've been telling sheri i want to get an electronic drum kit...as well as some other recording equipment so i can start recording my stuff - which has been a dream of mine for about the last 7 years or so. someday i'll pull this off.

sheri has officially switched shifts and now works 7-3...which means she's around in the evenings...which is nice. It's much less disturbingly quiet here now.

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