... to thatcrazycajun and starless_knight !!! Have a great one!! Belated hippos to filker0 and paltergo , whose birthdays slipped past me while I was busy with Baycon.

Dear Lady paltergo , Today we celebrate the day the Gods put you on this earth making it a better place. May you have a happy and fun filled day and many more to come. Hang in there lady, it is always darkest right before the dawn. There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

Time to do a "What's Mark Been Doing?" post, I think. A few months ago, we got a call from Marriott. The deal they offered us was a type I've heard before: four nights in a really nice resort, cheap, in return for sitting through a 90-minute timeshare sales pitch. It being winter in Michigan at the time, Palm Beach sounded awfully nice, so we went. The first surprise came shortly before we went...

Because I have again been taken to task for not writing, I'll start with a meme and end with something that I considered sharing when it happened, but never got around to. Swiped from uplinktruck Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In February I punched okaminokaze in the arm (-10 points) . In January I helped turtlelything hide a body (-173 points...

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Saturday I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points) . In August I pulled paltergo 's hair (-5 points) . Last Monday I put money in laken_steeljaw 's expired parking meter (14 points) . Last month I bought porn for uplinktruck (-10 points) . Last Thursday I gave change to a homeless guy (19 points...

Sarasota, FL - As a rule I tend to avoid 95% of meme's like a case of the bandwidth clap. However, this one I will pass: Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by those who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow. From paltergo I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwar...

Dear Mr. Obama I don't think I can add to that. A tip of the hat to paltergo for showing me this one. I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. - Barack Obama

Left Michigan Friday at 2 with friends paltergo and Shalla (who were also delightful roommates). Got stuck in the line at Canada Customs that had an agent who insisted on Doing His Job by spending a couple of minutes questioning the occupants of each car. Some time later, encountered a lane-shut-down-by-an-accident on the 401, causing us to take an hour to cover three miles. As a result, pulled...

Tampa, FL - In an earlier post, " Now just hold on a minute there Senator, you can't have it both ways... " I agreed with paltergo 's assertion that the only way Michigan's delegates should be seated is if there is another vote. In looking at it further, I don't think a second vote can be done in a manner that will produce an fair and accurate result. Of course a second vote in either state...

Tampa, FL - While running some errands around lunch time I stumbled across a sight that both disgusted and angered me. In front of me was a large delivery truck. We are talking a a large straight truck probably 13' feet tall. But this was not your ordinary delivery truck. The back and both sides of truck presents anyone that happens to glance that way with a remarkably graphic image of an aborted...