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Being a single man, and further being from a family who doesn’t really like to dote on each other, I have precious little Christmas shopping to do each year. So when I do my Christmas shopping, I usually end up buying myself a little something too. You know, just to have something to wrap up, and put under the tree to open on Christmas morning. I’m gonna need a big bow this year…

hehe.. I finally found what I’ve been looking for. Unfortunately, it’s in Fredericksburg, VA, but it’s being loaded onto a truck, and Santa should get it here just in time for Christmas. And speaking of Santa, Wade’s favorite company brown santa is bringing my other christmas present early. teehehehehehe…… God, I love Christmas….

while home for the brutal period of time we refer to as “thanksgiving”, i saw this dentist’s sign.

this is a good example of a reason people should be allowed to legally change their names.
i also recently saw this, which is a good example of why over half of our country’s male population should be chemically neutered.

in case you cant see, yeah… that douche canoe has a Dharma Initiative sticker on his window. a really big one.

now, it may shock some of you to know, that despite me being a total technophile, tv, and more directly, the concepts of tivo, are completely foreign to me.  however, unlike my father, who must be told over and over which remote lowers the god damn volume, i can usually pick up basic concepts pretty quickly.  hence, when my buddy logan informed me that the fancy directv box that we have at the ranch (transfered from dad’s old house) is like a tivo, and showed me how it works, i went ahead and set it up to record a couple of shows for me.  now being bored as hell tonight, and all caught up on lost and heroes, i decided to kick on the ol’ boob-tube and watch a few episodes of my good pal norm, over at the new yankee workshop.  so i turn on the tv, bring up the guide and immediately see this:holy.  shit.  seriously.  is this the kind of crap you people watch?  are there just so many channels now that they just started making shows about anything to fill airtime?  does there REALLY need to be a hour and a half special on this particular topic?  now, admittedly, i have a few shows i like to watch.  the discovery channel, the history channel and hgtv often have programs worth watching.  but to just turn the damn thing on and stare it for hours, watching whatever is on… its time we started doing things differently folks.  i’m not saying kill your television.  i’m not even being so bold as to suggest canceling your cable.  just… maybe pick up a book instead every once in a while?  go for a walk outside, ride a bike, climb a tree.  get off the couch and go live your life instead of watching dumbfuck celebrities mess up theirs.  just sayin…. and speaking of books, thanks to joe for lending me the man in the high castle by philip k. dick, a pretty interesting study of what would have happened if the axis powers had won world war II.  check it out sometime…

this morning i was sitting at the kitchen table at the tornado magnet, eating some grapenuts, checking the weather, basically minding my own business, right?  suddenly, i could feel someone staring at me.  now, being the overly paranoid person i am, i immediately assumed that i was mere seconds away from certain death.  i took a few seconds to decide whether i wanted to see the face of my would-be killer, then slowly turned and, accepting my fate, looked out the window.  this gruesome sight is what met my eyes…  okay… so, not the stone cold killer i was expecting, but still, ya gotta admit, she does look menacing, right?  in completely unrelated news (well, loosely related if you consider both subjects contain animals behaving in a manner undesirable to me) i learned today that this, apparently, is the most important tool in my shop…  little bastards…  fyi, it’s unnerving as hell to have your fingers inches from a tablesaw blade while dozens of yellow jackets buzz around you, clearly unhappy about the high pitch whine coming from the saw motor.  after being stung on four separate occasions (luckily none of which were during potential finger-removing operations), i declared war.  suffice it to say, i lost said war.  come to find out, what i thought was a dozen or two yellow jackets is probably closer to 200, maybe more.  despite the fact that the battlefield is strewn with the enemy dead, i am out of ammo, and they still hold that hill.  i will go into civilization in the morning to procure more wasp spray (a whole case, if they got it) and resume the fight.  i just hope i don’t get addicted to yellow jacket toxin like captain murphy.  (well, that was a scorpion, but you get the point…. sealab, people.  stay with me.)  wish me luck, i fear they have figured out my very short list of possible attack methods, and are planning a counter offensive as we speak…

i was digging through my computer this morning, trying to organize things, when i came across this image.

i can still remember the exact moment, right after i finished this piece, that i knew designing and building furniture is what i am meant to do. some time has passed since that day, and i am sad to say that there have been distractions and a few life events that have kept that from becoming a reality for me. well folks, i have officially put my own ass on notice. the time has come to make this happen. with the exception of a few last minute details, which will all be wrapped up by the end of this month, my responsibilities and commitments to other parties will be met, and i am officially out of excuses. it’s time to start…