Not Dead Yet

Oh heavens! Where have we been? Hopefully we haven't lost too many of you in this extended unintended hiatus we've taken from si blog. We just got a new computer after the old one decided to explode or implode or replode, something about the "click of death" I dunno. But we got this one up and going. Nothing on it. No music. No photos. No nothing. So it may take just a few days to get her up and running. Good news is, we're still in the house and the unloading process went relatively smooth. Cats have moved in. Only a few boxes left. Crap is everywhere tho. Trying to remedy that before I go back on tour. Yes I have to go back, but just for two swift weeks.

So quick summary...

• Fran started a new job as assistant manager of the most successful branch in NJ
• I did a month straight at spring training, a feat never before attempted, and for good reason
• Fran turned 22. I came home and surprised her
• I locked us out of the house on my very first try
• I bought a lawnmower
• Fran bought Pabst Blue Ribbon
• we painted that hideous fluorescent room
• I unintentionally, but still viciously ripped out a nest of napping baby birdlings and flung them to the ground (and on top of Fran) from our second floor balcony
• I completely gutted and redesigned the interior of our outdoor storage unit, only to destroy it again a few short days later
• I've rediscovered my love for microwave burritos
• we emptied the POD and 90% of the stuff we had at my parents' in Jackson
• the house is a mess, every room

That's it for now. As soon as the rest of the computer comes (today I think) I will get moving on some new photos (there are tons) and we can rekindle our blogging relationships. This new monitor has a webcam so who knows, maybe you'll be seeing some video of us. Probably not tho.

Meet the Staff

Here's some of the people that I spend my everyday with.

Daniel

Daniel is a good old friend. He is just recently acquired a new job and has been watching what he eats. Daniel insists he does not have a foot fetish, but knows someone who does.

Emma

This is Emma & my 11th summer together and I can honestly say I don't know anything about the girl. She constantly challenges those around her by just trying to keep up (literally, I hate you) and just when you got her figured out, she dyes her hair brown. She'll get it together one day.

Curtis

Curtis is a mockingbird, out to rearrange reality and carve a niche into the plodding Santa Fe landscape, all the while leaving time to reinvent his formative years thru the amalgamations of his joy for motion, fervor for creation, and obsession with peanut butter infused mousse. Curtis also does not like moisture.

April

April is the mama of us all, mother to one, and this is the best picture she's ever taken.

Greg

Greg uses words like disconsolate, ursine & sugarwater in perfect, albeit uncalled for and usually misunderstood context, and can work a biblical reference into a conversation about teriyaki sauce. Greg is Stewie Griffin.


Brian (aka: the Jew)

Brian is the wide-eyed optimist youngen among us, but he will soon learn the dark side of the activity and, like us, live everyday in the bitter & macabre shadow of a merciful beast determined to scrape at our souls til we take our final decaying breath.

Michelle

Michelle is a dark disturbing lady. She rarely has a nice word to say and is usually referred to by the kids as "the pain-bringer". And tho I wouldn't recommend it, if you do ever find yourself caught in a conversation with her don't mind the mumbling rants about her 80's obsession & rats in the deer-feeders.


Rory (aka: Cosgrove, Deputy Terry Cloth)

Rory is a hot mess.

Michael

Michael was in Rent. And I think he pays rent, at his apartment, or wherever he lives, I dunno, he's never invited me over. Michael is also a 24 year old black woman.

Tranny Video!

This is what we use to pass the free time here at UPJ.

Prepare yourself.

Ridiculous!


Absurd!

Spring Training, Pt. 1

...making up for a lack of posting the past couple weeks, Fran doesn't really have internet access at the new home and I am restricted to borrowing neighbors laptops on the sly.... and we listen to Yaz Gazeteci Yaz at least 50 times a day, so that's awesome...

I'll let the photos tell the story. Sit back.





























Til next time.