This prompted me to a) read that post and b) read a few more which in turn further prompted me to a) subscribe to Bora’s blog as it’s downright spiffy and b) revisit writing a few words here again from time to time…

Indeed… the historical record seems to suggest I take a 3-6 month hiatus from posting here every now and then .. and I think the most recent one may be over…  or maybe not – time will tell I suppose… there’s something that I find immensely… I dunno… “aligning” is probably the best word… about dumping my thoughts here regularly that isn’t satisfied by yer facebooks and yer Twitters, the two things that have supplanted this place as a repository for my thoughts…

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We miss you up here… & I especially miss everyone today – my most favo(u)rite-est special day of all…

Hope everyone has a great day… have a BM for me yo…

Err… that’d be a Bloody Mary… hah…

Reminds me of plenty of rain soaked jaunts for the bean in Seattle…

I love you guys!!! Thanks so much for sending flowers to the Boo for her ballet recital – she was super excited and I think that was just the most awsomest thing to do ever.

Sorry it’s been so long since we talked in person – I shall endeavo(u)r to give y’all a ringy-dingy this weekend to say howdy. And talk about interesting topics. Like soup.

lotsa fun was had… love-of-my life karen talked about it and posted some pics here… my favo(u)rite picture is yours truly fisting a wee little pumpkin with glee…

after recovering from the revelries on saturday we headed out to the fish sto’ to try to make sense of the fish situation… i mentioned our first wave of troubles here… unfortunately that wasn’t the end of it… we had (err… they had) the ick (ich) (f*cking ich as i like to call it)… and we experienced a near total wipeout of our tank… when all was said and done we had the two plecos (which is kinda cool because they’re my faves) and a black loach left…

so we took a water sample to our pals at big al’s… i was pretty tickled when my new best fish pal steve told me that our tank water was the best he’d seen in ages and ages… so the light was green… opportunity knocked… and k and i decided to answer and head to africa… our tank is now devoted to the african cichlids… which is kind of a big move… these fishies are kinda the link between fresh and saltwater… they’re a bit finicky… sometimes agressive… and don’t get along with the regular run-of-the-mill community-type fish… the cool thing is that they’re often pretty colo(u)rful and groovy lookin’ compared to the regular community folk… so i sorta feel like we’ve taken the step from aquarium neophytes to semi-experienced aquarist folk… apart from the fact that we just wiped out virtually our whole tank i guess…

anyway… we got some new dudes and dudettes to the aquarium today and we’ll add to them over the next couple of weeks… in a month we should have a pretty stylin’ and colo(u)rful tank… and as soon as i can figure out how to take some pictures of our new pals that are in focus and look good i’ll post ‘em…

so after yet another long-ass break in posting here i find myself and the tugboat sitting downstairs at 4:00 in the morning watching, for about the millionth time, thomas the tank engine’s spectacular adventures of some sort or another… and i figured maybe it’s time to write a little something…

so in my blog-type absence we’ve for the most part just been chillin’ and have had a fine summer thus far… besides a multitude of bbqs and time playing in the park with the kiddos we managed to take our first full-family shot at camping… which i’d have to call a qualified success… apart from the kiddos’ lack of desire/ability to go to sleep at night and love-of-my-life karen’s coming down with some wicked flu-like symptoms on the last day it was quite grand… such a success that methinks we’re gonna give it another shot in a couple of weeks… which makes me happy because i’ve always dug the outdoors and the woods and i’m glad that the chilluns seem to like that kinda stuff as well…

another heavenly fishing trip with the boys has come and gone… my personal most-magical-place-ever montana is doing well… i really get a lot out of going there each year… fish were caught, adventures were had, and the mighty austin came along for the first time this year which was pretty darn cool… i’d like to say the biggest thank you to k for holding down the fort while i was gone… due to some unfortunate scheduling she ended up being a fuul time single parent with no backup for the whole week that i was gone… while attempting to study for a hugely important professional certification test… you rock honey…

… and i’m proud of you for kicking ass on said test the day after i got back…

and one of my favorite summertime things… the tour de france… is going on… what a friggin’ debacle… i’ll save some extra thoughts on that for another post… two quick thoughts though… go leipheimer (and please don’t slap me around by getting caught doping)… and i hope that after this year this is still one of my fave summer things…

and on that note… i shall negotiate w/ seb for some napping…

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