Author: Craig

So I did a dumb thing while at lunch today. With the car wash/clean/wax/detail package I got, I received a free lunch at Chevy’s across the street. So I went and had a light lunch of veggie fajitas. I placed my fork down on the plate while I ate the first fajita I made and then picked up the fork to have some rice.
For those of you already thinking ahead. YES I PLACED THE FORK ON THE HOT FAJITA SIZZLING METAL PLATE.
The end of the fork was a little warm, but I did not notice UNTIL I PLACED IT BETWEEN MY LIPS that the other end of the fork was burning hot.

SIZZLE

OUCH

I now have partially cooked lips. They don’t hurt as much as I thought they would – most likely because I cooked the nerves too! wee! I have cooked lips.

Ahhh. what a lovely comp day. I’ve got so much accomplished – All of it with my damn car.
I hate spending money on cars, it is *so* not fun. But now I have:
An oil change
A working headlight
A Clean and shiny and waxed vehicle.

I also worked out, so that is nice. Our neice Katie is playing some Lucas Learning math game on my computer while I am on the one H uses – She’ll be happy to see I installed speakers for her.
Only thing left for today for me is to mow the lawn; I’ll do that this early evening.

It is really difficult to type on a “natural” keyboard when you are used to a conventional one. It is especially difficult when you are not a touch-typist, which I am not.

That’s what I am up to – not much.

As so brightly figured out, Heather and I are coming to Atlanta for Dragon Con this Labour day.
We’re flying in on Thursday the 29th, out on Tuesday the 3rd.

Both the Hyatt and the Marriott were full, so we are staying at the Days Inn downtown.

So hooray! we get to meet all you lovely Atlanta TH/LJ people! Hooray. I’m very very excited. Thank goodness Mr. smarty-pants figured it out, I thought I would burst from the secret keeping.

Big surprise for some people!

alludes to it, but I think we want people in suspense first.

so post here or there saying “What is it??!?!!” already and support our need for external validation. 😀

Name four bad habits you have:
1. Excessive introspection
2. Lack of patience with received incompetence
3. Scratching/peeling/aggravating wounds that are healing
4. Procrastination (I figured I could leave that till last)

Name four scents you love:
1. Jasmine
2. Lavender
3. Any Citrus (especially. Limes, Lemons)
4. Pumpkin-spice (cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg)

Name four things you’d never wear:
1. Drag (well, feminine frilly drag)
2. Gold Jewelry
3. Speedo Swimwear
4. Expensive Sunglasses

Name four Groups/Artists people don’t know you like:
1. Mannheim Steamroller
2. Andy Warhol
3. Mason Williams
4. Michala Petri

Name four drinks you regularly drink:
1. Coffee
2. Diet Dr. Pepper
3. Diet Coke
4. Dark and Stormy
**** In a tumbler of ice, pour 1.5 ounces dark rum (preferably Myers). Fill tumbler with (and this is important!!) Cock & Bull brand Ginger Ale. Squeeze 1/4 lime and toss in spent shell, add stir straw and stir. *****

Name four random facts about yourself:
1. I adore semantics
2. I enjoy annoying people
3. I am extremely lazy at heart
4. Corrallary to 2: my favourite way to annoy people is to dicreetly mock those who “Take things too seriously”

Name four random facts about your family:
1. I have never known any Grandfather, nor will any of my children if I have any.
2. All my extended family is in Wisconsin, and we do not speak.
3. I am most likely one of the only members to have the ability to carry on my Surname of “Hermann” — almost no boys in my extended family.
4. I know close to nothing about my family history.

So I got lazy and made photoshop do the work. Sue me.
Here’s the party pics!

Back at work. Blah.

The party was a huge success, a fun time was had by all, and there wasn’t even a huge mess – most people were quite kind with their trash and bottles.

I have a digicamera with some shots on it that I’ll make a gallery from and post the link to soon.

I missed KyleKyle and Britefox and Pat, though!

You’ll want to tune in, because you never know what may appear!

Well, it’s about t-4.5 hours till the party starts.
We have a webcam set up for all of you who cannot join us in person. To view it, get yahoo messenger, add “elenadan” as a friend, then select elenadan and (option | right | control | whatever) click it and select “view webcam”.
wee!
Right now it centered on our tiki statue.
fun!

List three things about your partner that make you jealous
1. Her ability to immediately chat people up and make friends
2. Her ability to drive stick.
3. Her ability to throw together an outfit and look fantastic.

List three tastes your partner has that you’ll never share:
1. Bad action movies (sum of all fears, hard target, etc.. ugh.)
2. Pet Shop Boys: Kill them now.
3. Scruffy Dangerous men: Yawn.

List three tastes your partner will never share with you
1. Wine
2. As calls them, “Stinky foot cheeses”
3. The Damned

List one taste you’ve acquired from your partner:

1. The Cure: Used to casually dislike them, now I can generally enjoy them.

List one taste your partner has acquired from you:

1. Twinks.