Nothing stranger than seeing your oldest son running through the house with a frozen hammer stuck to his tongue. Not a whole lot going on, although it should be an interesting New Year.

Well, I haven't had time to blog lately with work, kids and the house.  I Spent a day last week cleaning out my closet and organizing my hundred or so pair of socks.  I also found the only painting I saved from College.  It actually looks pretty good for being 20 years old.  The most unusual thing about it is the firecracker paper still embedded in some of the paint.  I used PVC pipe and firecrackers to EXPLODE paint at the canvas from 3-4 feet away.  It looks good on the wall in my new office and I can look at it and remember the smell of gunpowder mixed with the ammonia from the Latex paints when I made it.

I think I might take some time next week and make another one.

Just a few Pictures from Chicago.  having a great time up here.  We're off to Wisconsin Tomorrow.

For any of you that didn't know, Gary Gygax died last week.

Jake asked me the question I've been dreading all these years. I was hoping that he might make it to 14 or 15 before this happened. He's almost 12 now and seeing how I asked my Dad when I was only 10, I guess thats not to bad. It happend just like I though it would. I was relaxed watching TV and drinking Earl Grey when he poked his head through my door and asked "Dad? Do we have any potassium nitrate?"

My Hackers in training. BE AFRAID!

Been busy, thumb is fine, enjoying my new office, work is going great.

Here is lizzy showing off my new desk

It looks like I'm almost done. I passed the drywall inspection, and the next and last inspection is the occupancy inspection. About two or three weeks of drywall finnishing, painting, and trim and I'll be ready to hang the doors and put in the flooring.

Some long over due pictures of the addition, enjoy

I found Buster playing with a rat this morning. I dont think he has any idea what to do with it after he catches it. He is a very lazy cat.

The all new Mouse-Mouse. I really want one of these, but I know my kids will hate me for it.

I was cleaning out a folder on my computer when I found a selfportrat that Jake did. I wonder If he has computers on the brain.