Another Holiday Survived

OK, so we technically haven't survived the New Years just yet, but with the big D-25 out of the way it feels like we managed to scrap our way through another year with our sanity more or less in tact.  The kids made out great, I got way too many movies and books, and my wife got a power saw!  (Yes, I'm frightened....)  We still have some returns to deal with (one of my DS' big gifts, in particular, needs to be exchanged for something that doesn't require rebar and concrete), and since the ol' XBOX 360 has been shipped off to the geniuses at Microsoft for some repairs, there are a couple of gifts that we can't use just yet, but overall the family made out just fine, we've all had a good time...and my God, I think I've eaten as much food in the past month as I had through the entire first three fiscal quarters of 2008 combined.  ;)

Happy Holidays, everyone.  Be safe, and here's looking forward to a great 2009!

Go Spurs!

WARNING: Hopeless basketball addict and Spurs fan will randomly post video recaps of games.

The "Saw" Parody Sequence from "Scary Movie 4"

Very stupid, but very funny.  Don't watch this while the kids are up.

My Wife Rocks

Anybody who can keep up with this family, take care of anything and everything related to these crazy Holidays, knit a closet's worth of cool stuff and somehow still find time to deal with a demanding moron like me deserves more than a big "I Love You"...she deserves a frickin' MEDAL!

Another November, Another Novel

Well, actually, finally a novel may be more like it, since my debut effort two years ago (Razor) was really just the first part of a longer (still...ahem...incomplete) project, and last year's effort (The Ending Dream) was never completed, even if I did hit the requisite 50,000 word mark.

This time, however, I actually wrote a novel in November. I'm happy with this one, as it's the first writing work I've actually completed in quite some time, and it somehow managed to incorporate a little something of all of the writing-related ideas that have been floating around in my over-sized head for the past several months. It needs quite a bit of revision and development work, but overall I'd say this one is a keeper...Hell, I even left it open for a sequel...:)

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