Long time, no see, friends! I'd been without internet for a few days so, visiting the site and leaving comments has been a great sputtering of energy. Let's see if I can't fill you in proper.
#1 - To clarify, I am not married. I am not/was not getting married. The persons who did was my sister, chiquitabonita and my now illustrious brother-in-law PornStarGuy. And their wedding Sunday was great! As it was a low-fi, quickly planned affair, there were a few rough edges, a few ruffled feathers but it was otherwise smooth and pain-free.
Throughout their near week in-town, I was really pleased how well both sets of my parents got on... They'd divorced 20+ years ago and everyone's remarried since so, that's some measure of equal playing field.
The other benefit to the exchange is my Aunt Rhoda. She my step-father's sister-in-law, a southern baptist, a gruesome houseguest and an intollerable pain in the ass. Happily relatives seem to get along when they can identify that there is a far greater asshole in the room than the person they'd normally have beef with. She and my Uncle John vacation at my parents house, literally. Some people choose Europe, otthers St. Bart's...not them. They'll call my parents and inform them that they are inviting themselves to stay the week of the such-and-such and move in.
The first thing my Mom had said aftern announcing she'd be arriving a near-week before the wedding was, "I don't want to hear it. She's here to help me with the wedding and will be completely innocuous." This woman is the bull in a china shop of good houseguest form.
Anyway, she did provide to be a fantastic photostalking victim of the lovely AmazonRed13.
After the dinner table, when she wasn't taking pictures down her shirt or of me and AlienPrincess, she would creep behind Rhoda and pop a flash two inches away from an eye and dash away. I'll have to sort through pictures and find a picture of this to post...and maybe of boobs, too. 
As I'd last talked to her, chiquitabonita will be arriving in Charlston today. Due to the poor planning of PornStarGuy's mom and his needing to move his family down there (as well as himself and CB), there wasn't time for a proper farewell party. In the next couple of weeks or so, the two newlyweds will be settling into their new apartment together down there and will get back on-line here. For anyone interested in phone numbers or adresses, drop a note in my 'contact' tab and I'll set you up.
And perhaps that's all for now. The future of work stuff I'll update on in the next week. News on the greyed DarkRabbit and what he's been trying to do to rejoin our ranks will be touched upon, as well.
Oh! And as a brief aside, gas prices! Yes, they're miserable... As the guy who drives everyone, everywhere, this has hit me hard. So friends I have six words for you: discount club cards and the internet. I've been a member of Costco and Sam's Club for years because of my former job. Both of their business models are not to make money on the items they sell but on anaual membership fees. This relays as gas 5-10 cents cheaper at the pumps. The other resource for buying gas are consumer websites such as Gas Buddy, Gas Price Watch, the enterprising Google Map hackers at My Wikimap and locally at Connecticut Gas Prices. Pay what you find but you've no excuses not to pay less.
#1 - To clarify, I am not married. I am not/was not getting married. The persons who did was my sister, chiquitabonita and my now illustrious brother-in-law PornStarGuy. And their wedding Sunday was great! As it was a low-fi, quickly planned affair, there were a few rough edges, a few ruffled feathers but it was otherwise smooth and pain-free.
Throughout their near week in-town, I was really pleased how well both sets of my parents got on... They'd divorced 20+ years ago and everyone's remarried since so, that's some measure of equal playing field.
The other benefit to the exchange is my Aunt Rhoda. She my step-father's sister-in-law, a southern baptist, a gruesome houseguest and an intollerable pain in the ass. Happily relatives seem to get along when they can identify that there is a far greater asshole in the room than the person they'd normally have beef with. She and my Uncle John vacation at my parents house, literally. Some people choose Europe, otthers St. Bart's...not them. They'll call my parents and inform them that they are inviting themselves to stay the week of the such-and-such and move in.
The first thing my Mom had said aftern announcing she'd be arriving a near-week before the wedding was, "I don't want to hear it. She's here to help me with the wedding and will be completely innocuous." This woman is the bull in a china shop of good houseguest form.
Anyway, she did provide to be a fantastic photostalking victim of the lovely AmazonRed13.
After the dinner table, when she wasn't taking pictures down her shirt or of me and AlienPrincess, she would creep behind Rhoda and pop a flash two inches away from an eye and dash away. I'll have to sort through pictures and find a picture of this to post...and maybe of boobs, too.
As I'd last talked to her, chiquitabonita will be arriving in Charlston today. Due to the poor planning of PornStarGuy's mom and his needing to move his family down there (as well as himself and CB), there wasn't time for a proper farewell party. In the next couple of weeks or so, the two newlyweds will be settling into their new apartment together down there and will get back on-line here. For anyone interested in phone numbers or adresses, drop a note in my 'contact' tab and I'll set you up.
And perhaps that's all for now. The future of work stuff I'll update on in the next week. News on the greyed DarkRabbit and what he's been trying to do to rejoin our ranks will be touched upon, as well.
Oh! And as a brief aside, gas prices! Yes, they're miserable... As the guy who drives everyone, everywhere, this has hit me hard. So friends I have six words for you: discount club cards and the internet. I've been a member of Costco and Sam's Club for years because of my former job. Both of their business models are not to make money on the items they sell but on anaual membership fees. This relays as gas 5-10 cents cheaper at the pumps. The other resource for buying gas are consumer websites such as Gas Buddy, Gas Price Watch, the enterprising Google Map hackers at My Wikimap and locally at Connecticut Gas Prices. Pay what you find but you've no excuses not to pay less.
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It reminded me of this:
'Well she came from Minneapolis
She was looking for a change I guess...'
(Bill Janowitz, 'Minneapolis')
Anyone who tries to rhyme Minneapolis is a friend of mine!
And also this:
'I'm setting out my stall behind a sheet of dark hair, and you, the hostage of crazed hormones, will be driven to say: "I am the next poet laureate and she is the cherry madonna, and all of the summer is hers."'
(Paddy McAloon, 'I Trawl the MEGAHERTZ')
Basically I have nothing in my head but a load of useless quotations...
(but then usefulness is relative, I suppose)