Silence...

yeah, it's funny how certain moments in time are...

this somber Blindside song comes on, "Silence", & then I discover my friend Heather's old website... some would say a perfect moment in time...

I'm not sure I have any words myself...

ensue....

e-mail problem... solved

I'm able to check all my email with Thunderbird now, so if you thought
you had my last email address before the gmail announcement, then by all
means use that... otherwise, or if you're not sure, use the gmail...

so anyways... unless some sort of craziness ensues, it looks like I'll
be going to Comic-Con in San Diego this year - woohoo!
just hope all the people that seemed so interested in going don't
puss-out... they'll have enough notice, so let's see...

post-it notes...

well, for those of you that haven't heard first-hand, I'm a little hard to get a hold of these days... there's so many people that just use myspace as an exclusive communication tool, that I'm definitely out of that loop - I haven't been on myspace more than once or twice a week, as of late... & it's alarming how many of those myspace users are content to believe that myspace is gonna be around forever...

well, anyways, I pretty much post here from my email, & as I've mentioned before, I have been trying to get more done online without being online - which has also brought a new issue...

I love Thunderbird... Mozilla Thunderbird... I can do so much with so little...

so, what's the problem?... well, I'll tell ya... yahoo thinks that we in the U.S.A. should have to pay for POP access (not the rest of the world, just us)... so everyone who thinks that they have the best email to reach me may want to rethink that for a second...
& then comes GMail... I'm not as sold on Google as I have been on Yahoo!, but it does seem to be the only serious competition Yahoo is likely to see anytime soon... either way, alot of things about GMail are truly refreshing & helpful in very individual ways... obviously that rant about GMail also means that they have free POP access (meaning I can do it all from Thunderbird)...

Now, I'm not giving up on Yahoo!, & I'm well aware that there are atleast two workarounds for this predicament, but me being online less means I am unable to devote extra time to making these little nuisances work...
so in the meantime, email me at my GMail address, which, many of you know, is likely to be GammaKrikit (!)... then the @ symbol... then gmail.com... (!)

I still check my yahoo address but it's not nearly every day like the gmail...
any workarounds I might not know about?...

thanx Peter B. (see link on the sidebar) for the invite, by the way...

raising the eyebrow...

so I didn't really have any reason to suspect that my back would start
killing almost a week after pushing a Buick... but that's what happened...
at the moment, anything but lying flat causes cringing...

so how's everyone else doing?...

"No One Really Wins"

yeah, I'm not asleep... I know this is no surprise to anyone, but yeah...
I'm annoyed...

but anyways, I've been playing with this web-editor called NVu - kinda fun... not to mention free & open-source... it's pretty easy to use - I wanna see what all I can do with it... I'm hoping I can edit my blog with full-on custom templates...

Knowda... oh, wait...

so before Christmas, Verbs had this special on his new Groundwork 3P (EP) - it was pretty much a steal... pretty good too... thanx Verbs!
good hip-hop is hard to come by these days... seriously... & if anyone might think this 3-song cd was a little sparse, remember the pizza rule...

well, I have to go heat up so beans & then clean some more... have fun kiddies...

& in the vicinity of now... (or right up to)

I know... I know... I haven't been on for some time... (all 2 of you that read this might have noticed)

well, needless to say, the holidays, yada yada yada...

& things have been culminating to such a point, which will mean various changes - which will possibly be explained when they happen...

on a lighter note, this is my 1st post attempt from Mozilla Thunderbird - if it works out, I can get more posting done whether I'm online or not (& the internet has been a pain lately)... not to mention, I can actually read & respond to my email (a simple thing which has dwindled alot lately)...
but also, I've been trying to find ways to be more productive online, while spending less time on the internet... hopefully this works out...

...

now on to an actual update...
Christmas was fun (after all the pre-holiday stress, that is)... new years was kinda low-key, but I kinda wanted it to be...

it almost seemed like the holiday whirlwind was gonna take Kathy & Alex as swiftly as it had brought them, but we actually did get a bit of real time on the 26th (which was good)...

we had a nice visit with Adam & Jodie while they were here from Georgia - also got to see the munchkin at the dedication...

this is the 1st year in many that I've tried to do the Christmas card thing again - I actually did fairly well, all things considered... I didn't get everyone I meant to, but it's my first attempt with any real semblance of success, so I feel good about it...
I remember years ago, getting all these family addresses from my Grampa & meaning to start atleast some sort of basic correspondence -  but I lost the addresses rather promptly... it was nice to get his card done this year (even if I still didn't get any of the other Thompson's - it wasn't for lack of trying, but hey, I'm new)...