goblinbox

gobbie

n., slang. Any kind of device (computer, PDA, cell phone, GameBoy, iPod, or television) that relentlessly sucks up all of your time and attention. If you're reading this, you're utilizing a goblinbox right now. You might even have a S.O. who wishes you weren't pasted to the goblinbox who's hollering, "Turn off that blasted goblinbox and come to bed this very instant!"

Telluride

Thanks to Amy, I now have a few images of Brett & Bo’s trip to the 2005 Telluride Blues & Brews festival. Looks like they had tons of fun!

Telluride 2005

(I still can’t believe I missed the Very Reverend Al Green, but I had so much fun in New York that it was worth it.)

In other news, I got those pesky permissions problems fixed so the rest of the Galleries work again. Yay! (Since I don’t have root, I had to go in and chmod every single file and sub directory in Gallery’s albums folder seperately.)

New York

Acapella group
Finally! An all-new gallery!

Images of my September trip to NYC to record Barbara’s a cappella album are now in the gallery! Yay!

Thanks, Aimee, for the sweet pics.

Lousy Roll of Film

A gallery of Random Pics in which I learn to use my old Cannon Elph APS camera to take non-flash long exposures. Circa last winter.

Smashed Truck

Early in the morning on June 30th, a big storm with gale force winds blew through Batavia, knocking down half a tree in the process and smashing up one of Brett’s trucks.

Mr. Brett is somewhat devastated.

Behold the carnage in my Smashed Truck Gallery called 1950 Ford 0, Tree 1.

Parker

New images of my niece, Parker, are now in the Gallery.

She’s about six months old now. Already! This kid is huge; she was ten pounds at birth and she’s still huge. Such a bruiser!

We recently saw her at Grandma’s house. She and her mom came down for a BBQ last Thursday night.

Chez Mook

Ever wondered what our old eternal-project-from-hell farm looks like these days? Well, the flash is broken on my digital camera (and there’s no real reason for you to see the interior anyway), so take an exterior tour of the property as it currently looks here. Seventy lovely images of rural living! Now with more canines!

Hoist Kit

This is being sold on eBay. Oh yes, my DH is actually selling something for once! HAPPY DAY!

Sexy Dance

Behold, spring is sprung when the peacock does his sexy dance. A few pics of the blue chicken doing his thang around the house: Peacock: Spring ’05.

Ron’s Here!

With the last of Prana’s puppies!

(Click the image to see more pics)

There were four, but now only three – Toby and Jeanne took one home yesterday. Need an adorable retreiver pup? CALL US! Quick, before Ron leaves again!

Morning Snow

It was snowing when I left for work this morning. Apparently, March has decided to go out like a lion.

HOT TUB! Well, sort of.

My darling DH got up this morning and ran off early to haul more crap home.

We now have a ’94 hot tub that doesn’t work, hasn’t worked for several years, and was allowed to freeze this winter with water in it! Yay!

The first thing we have to do is build something to set it on. (Like that’ll happen.) Then we have to put the tub on that something, replace the freeze-burst pipes, apply power, fill it with water, and then start troubleshooting whatever was wrong with it in the first place.

I’d be terribly excited (a hot tub! HOT TUB!!!) if I weren’t so terribly jaded – our outbuildings are stuffed to the rafters with ‘projects’ of exactly this nature. Snort!

But it could happen, and that’s the point yeah?

Miss Parker

A few new pictures of our niece, Parker, emailed to me by her mommy and daddy. She’s three months old already!

And yes, she does appear to still be a redhead.

Is it weird that every time I think of her name, Parker, I think of Charlie Parker, which today for some odd reason reminds me of the Steely Dan song ‘Charlie Freak’? Will it stunt her growth if I start calling her Charlie Freak when she’s only three months old?

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