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Dragon*Con 2013

Another year, another dragon*con. The closest thing I have to an annual vacation. 5 days in Atlanta with friends and 50,000 additional crazy people. Less dancing on my…

The hat

The hat got around last year… One more week to go.

The edge

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see…

Get a Grip

Best ‘mistake’ purchase I think I’ve made for this house is a large pair of channel lock pliers. I mean… very large. Heeee-uge. I needed something to get…

Pick her up

“A man has always wanted to lay me down, but never wanted to pick me up.” — Eartha Kitt.

Robin’s Getting Old

work hard

I think reality only punishes me for relaxing or being lazy. Thats seems to be when clients freak out and shit falls apart. But when I work hard,…

Goth

I posted this back in April, to a private thing. At the time, I didn’t want to stir up any real trouble. But I think everyone has sorted…

Art

Crush old American-made cars. Display them in a vast empty factory that formerly employed those Americans, on a property footprint that could house thousands of them. Charge them…

Do it.

“What do you do when (if) you ever feel like giving up?” – theaudacityofswope There is no such goddamn thing. There is only getting up and doing it…

Birthday Weekend

Friday – Amanda’s Birthday Saturday – Shannon’s Birthday

Merle Haggard doing impressions

…these moments…

You have to shut off all of those voices and look for these special moments—these moments that you accept you have no control over. So much of my…

Estimating

This post is about business, so… you know, caveat emptor. Probably the single most common thing I do in business is write estimates. If people are even vaguely…

thanks

I posted the following two bits on Facebook a couple weeks ago; but I wanted to share them here as well, for long term archiving: So yes. As…

Rust

The plumber just showed me a section of the pipe she pulled out—the junction where it went out to the front yard faucet. It was packed completely solid…

Yacht Rock

Starting over

The home sale is done. I moved in 2 days ago. The house is still empty, until I get my belongings out of storage. (Interesting to note that…

Rolling Thunder

Life is hard.

It’s hard, right now. It’s been almost a year since Heidi broke things off. And I am still living there, for various reasons. And I think we both…