a problem has arisen.

This problem is between my two dear friends and neighbors, namely Cecil A. Beatley and Percival E. Worthington. I do not blame dear Percy, but rather believe the fault lies with Cecil.

The other day I took my gnomely friends out on a walk, and as they reached the top of a rather dirty hill, paused to take their picture...

ah, the appearance of innocence. Could anyone tell from Cecil's tranquil expression what terrible deed he was plotting? no. You must understand, Cecil is not an evil gnome, but he does hate spunk so. This hatred for all spunk, though a good thing in moderation, pushes him to judgemental remarks and intolerance. Words can hurt, Cecil. So, as they were standing there, Percy complimented Cecil's beard, and tried to water it with his watering can.

This was a bad idea.

No, Cecil, No.

t'isnt lyme disease! 'twis garlic flu!

i have come to the conclusion that my illness is not lyme disease, because i don't believe in lyme disease. i don't mean that i don't believe in the fundamental beliefs inherent in lyme disease, i mean that i don't believe it exists. my ailment is...

garlic flu.

my family eats so much garlic (seriously, 8 cloves in one loaf of garlic bread? wow. ) that this is not a suprise. if my hypothesis is correct, i am patient zero in the man-garlic mutation process.

yes, my friends, i am slowly becoming a head of garlic.

one of the more disgusting symptoms of garlic flu is that all the foods not banned by my medication taste remarkably like raw garlic, and are therefore disgusting. yuck.

a missive

Mary-John and Emily and Maggie .... COME BACK SOOOOOON!

march boot camp 08

wow, this feels like a really long time ago. these aren't all the pictures i took- i just got tired of uploading them, so i stopped after 5.

itsss.... BIBLEMAN!!

go to imdb, look up Bibleman- its a Christian Kid's show... not currently on air, but very very hilarious. also not great doctrine... but HILARIOUS!

a favorite quote...


Cypher: ...The Prince of Pride hit you with an ego-stimulating, heat-radonic seismo-ray...!

Bibleman: ...Creating an egoplasmic distortionary electro-field, which caused me to focus on myself instead of God! *Insidious!*

piglet would love it. or maybe haycorns are different.

this coffee tastes like i always imagined acorn coffee would taste like.

and yes, i have actually wondered what acorn coffe would taste like before. haven't you wondered? i mean what else did you think squirrels drank in the morning?

verdict: the squirrels are right. yea!

my superpower

Stronger than parentheses! More expressive than a double hyphen! Able to simulate conversational dramatic, emphatic or awkward pauses in written expression in a single bound!

Look! There, on the page!... between those two words! That thing that signals neither a shift in topic nor a separation between two connected phrases... is it a comma? is it a semi-colon?... no, its an ELLIPSE!

eureka!

i absolutely love the feeling you get when you solve a technology problem that seemed unsolveable. its just... oh yes.

makes me feel like one of those awesome geeks that are always in movies... the ones who are supposed to be geeky but wind up being the coolest character in the entire movie. i won!

Thomas Cole

This is "The Garden of Eden" by Thomas Cole, one of the painters from the Hudson River School movement. We saw this at the Amon Carter Museum a few years ago - its so much more amazing in person... the colors glow, everything is bright. If you ever get a chance to see it, go. A photo can't express how amazing it is.