I’ve been up for the most part since about this time yesterday.   Spent the night holding a vigil that someone remained breathing and responsive.   Mild overdose of valium (non-intentional—just had a bit much for his system at the dentist yesterday). 

I’m angry they let him drive away from their facility in his condition.    He was not in his right mind when he walked through the door.    I guess they wanted to call his emergency contact (me), but he kept refusing.     Refused me taking him to the ER too.

Freaked me out.     Just glad he’s okay.      Despite everything, I’m still crazy about the guy.

It seems like the new year is always a revolving door of change for me.   Its been this way for several concurrent years now… but as the new year comes, so with it comes some chaotic upheaval that disrupts the very fabric of my world—shattering contentment.

At least it serves to keep me in motion—always evolving.  Stagnation isn’t particularly desirable.     It would seem, however, that an important chapter in my life is reaching its conclusion.   Wonder what’s on the next page…

Love is the law.  So let it be.

I figured it was high time to update this here blog with some words.     Not that the sonogram my sister texted me wasn’t a worthy-updated or anything, but I didn’t really say much.

So today I’m going to talk about what I got for Christmas:

A bean bag chair that I actually fit in (so a big one)

A new camera!

The latter I’m especially happy about because I can get descent pics in low-light without a flash…  which means that when I try and photograph all my halloween stuff next year, it has a good chance of turning out.

To test this, I drafted none other than MumRa, Everliving Source of Halloween  (and resident Mummy in this house):

Pic of Mum-Ra using Gabe’s digital camera (which it turns out has no better resolution than the one on my phone…but it has a flash, so there’s that going for it):

MumRa in 3.2 MP Glory – This was actually one of the better pics I got from this past Halloween, but alas you can’t really tell he’s shrouded in some of the best cob-webbing I’ve pulled off.

Here he is, donning his gay apparel for Christmas, with the new 14 MP camera:

Somehow, I doubt the cob-webbing would have shown up spectacularly in this photo, though, had it been there.

I’ve been taking other random shots of things in the dark and all in all its turning out pretty good.   Not professional-quality, but I won’t need to photo-shop everything to actually see it either.

And finally… a pic of me in that bean-bag chair, happily enjoying some Christmas morning gaming:

Gabe says it’s a good picture of me, but I don’t agree.

Anyway, hope all my readers had a great holiday season and that the new year is already a prosperous one for you.

Merry January!

The western rim of Reno, however, is another story.    It’s a bit late in the year for one, but we have an out of control brush fire that has destroyed twenty homes already, indirectly killed someone (heart-attack), closed all our schools, shut down many key roadways,  and is spreading.

Very high winds today not making things easy.    From what I understand, the city of Reno has declared a state of emergency.   (Would be nice if the citizenry actually got that notification other than via heresay.)

If it gets to where it’s actually threating my home.. well Reno is toast at that point.    But there seems to be some fear, that I feel at this point is a little far-fetched, that the city will burn.    It was a bit unnerving, driving westbound from Sparks and seeing flames from the other side of the valley this morning, though.  

At zero-percent containment, an expanding evacuation zone, and nature… i’m just hoping for a most benevolent outcome right now.

Its officially time to be beside myself in giddiness.   The Dark Holiday Celebration is here!

Tonight is my annual Halloween party, and I’m really looking forward to it.   Tomorrow will be clean-up and I think some fang-crafting.  My new buddy is going to make me some custom fangs.

Sunday I will probably carve pumpkins.   Itching to try out some tools I picked up a couple of years ago and haven’t played with… including my Halloween Dremel.    I have a powered saw too.    Neither of which have felt the sensation of sinking into the flesh of a pumpkin.

Hopefully I’ll have some pics to share over the weekend too.  My photographer is slacking… ‘cause well, she’s a busy gal and its Halloween…  which makes us all busy.

So Dark Tidings to you all… remember your ancestors, as they remember you (and if your dearly departed are going to pop in for a visit…  this is the most likely time).    Put some food out on your porch for the spirits…   don a mask to confound troublesome goblins (or, you know, just scare some kids)…   and be afraid… be very afraid   (but in a good way.)

I met a guy over the weekend who I think may just be more into Halloween than I am.   Shocking!    At the very least he gives me good competition for dark-holiday obsession.        Needless to say we hit it off extremely well, geeking out over skeletons and gargoyles.   Three of my gargoyles are also his.

Seems we have a lot of common interests too.    For you Radcliffians, I think its safe to say I have a new Jaffa to add to the ranks.    I may be getting ahead of myself, but I’m already anticipating an extra set of hands for next year’s setup.

Speaking of which, just some finishing touches to be made and the photo shoot can begin!   I’m particularly pleased with how the bathroom came out this year.    of course every time Leia barks (it was her five-year birthday yesterday), she sets off some sound-activated horror.    I, of course, can’t help but giggle about it.

Watch this.   I mean it.

Its things like this that allow me to maintain a positive outlook with the world (in case you were wondering).

(note, this is at least a couple of years old.   I believe it occurred in Santiago, Chile.)

As one commenter astutely put it:

Funny how animals that cant talk and cant do as much as us help each other out when they see a friend in need, and we stupid ass human beings see somebody in need and we just walk on by like we saw nothing..

If a dog can ‘do what is right,’ than so can you.   Live Jedi.