.: I’ll post pictures on my return to New York.  We’ve been spending the past three days gutting my brother’s kitchen and putting up new cabinets. 

Can you say pain in the ass?

I knew you could.

Still, I really don’t mind doing this.  I wish I could do more, but my knowledge is limited to the gutting parts and I’m just a lazy bastard in general, so a project like this really kicks my ass.  Even when it’s occasionaly fun.

It’s about 11:15pm and we’ve at least got — I gots interupted. We’re going back to work, so there you go and with any luck, you may get a drunken post in the middle of the night tomorrow, and then a return home with some pictures on Monday.

AB

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.: Made it down to North Carolina in about 12 hours from Brooklyn.  Which isn’t so bad, considering the requent stops and the fact that we crawled through New Jersey and Delaware for quite a bit before actually moving.  My sister and my daughter got to sleep most of the trip away, my mom dozed off quite a bit, Chuck dozed off and on and I slpet for about two solid hours from 3:30-5:30am.

And not much has happened since.  We had some IHoP for breakfast, came back to my brother’s, slept, got up and had some dinner.

And Wii.  I played Wii.

Never played the Wii before.  I made a Mii which didn’t quite look like me but as a Wii Mii I guess I could have done worse.  Actually, I thought it was pretty good until I saw John’s and Chuck’s.  Theirs looked really good.  My sister Cheree was whomping everybody’s ass off at Wii Baseball.  Until I played her.  I beat her in both games of a doubleheader.  The first game I won with a homer in the bottom of the third (it’s only three innings), and only allowed her one hit.  The second game I got a no-hitter, and then scored with two back to back doubles in the third.

So, despite my Wiinadequacy, I was the one to shut my sister down.  So there! 

It’s good to be down in North Carolina, although part of me misses New York, since Gantor has just arrived there.  But I suppose I’ll see her soon enough.  Her and baby Gantor.

Tomorrow we begin ripping apart John’s kitchen to put up the new cabinets.  Should be fun. 

And I mean that.

AB

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.: “Maryellen is in Georgia,” said I.

“So is Russia,” said the Dude.

Gantor is on her way back from Florida.  It’s a secret, so don’t tell anyone.  Anybody who shouldn’t yet know this doesn’t read my blog, so I feel reasonably comfortable posting it.  She did have some car trouble, causing her to stay a night in Georgia.  The alternator went on the Mercury, but as I write this, she is now underway again (actually, spending the night in North Carolina).

.: I’m leaving for North Carolina myself tomorrow.  I’ll be heading down to my brother’s house, to visit his lovely family and to help him get some stuff done.  I won’t be going down alone.  Will be traveling with my brother, mother, daughter and sister.  Should be fun.  If by fun I mean like the sort of fun people who pissed off Vlad the Impaler had.

I exaggerate.

.: I missed the very Kerri birthday dinner tonight.  This bums me out and I seriously must make it up to her upon my return.

.: List of people I neglect to call daily when I really, really mean to:

• Andrea
• Sister Fran (my sister, not like, a nun or something)
• Joe & Jen
• AJ
• Andi
• My cousins.

That’s a short list, so if you weren’t on it and this upsets you, butch up.  I also have a list of people I really, really mean to email.  I won’t share that here.

.: I have now not had coffee with SleepJunky in ages.  This is a serious breach of the Universal Order and must be corrected as soon as possible.  I also really miss Son of SleepJunky and should really stop being a stool and go see them.

I also miss Gantor and baby Gantor, but I will see them in about a week.

.: I have decided to bring the laptop and microphone to my brother’s house, where we will record the first of the commentary tracks.

I’m also bringing plenty of paper and stuff, so that I can spend some of my vacation working on Jedi Jesus and doing some Bad Napkin Arts.

.: The Dude is worried about the zombie situation in America.  I concur.  He also feels that my daughter does not take the Zombie threat seriously.  She is too wrapped up in vampires and werewolves for his taste.

I got her ‘Twilight’, by Stephanie Myer.  It’s a girl meets vampire love story that the kids seem to be into these days.  I hope she likes it.  I hope I do not.  I don’t want to get wrapped up like I did with that Potter kid.  Though I really did like them Potter books.

.: I am so seriously behind on my comic book buying, that I fear I will easily spend over a hundred bucks the first week of September when I am able to buy them again.  And that’s if everything I want is still in the bins.

.: There may be less random thoughts coming Monday.  Depends on how sleepy I am after arriving in NC.

That is all.

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