Happy Old Year, Happy New Year

Apparently I've been too lazy or too freaking busy or too something to come on and say hi, lately. Sorry about that.

I've popped a picture on here of my view from the laptop in our hotel room in Georgia last weekend. I have a set of these 'view from my laptop' pictures, to remind me of the places I've dragged my old Dell along in the time it's taken me to write my novel.

JB and I had a nice long weekend away for Christmas weekend...





...and now it's almost like we were never down there and relaxing, as we've both been working our, uh, selves hard at work this week, and the Blondster flew home last evening from the panhandle of Texas, so that was both a celebratory and exhaustingly long day.

Now, we finally have a few minutes in our own home to breathe, so I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for your friendship in 2008, and here's to a Happy New Year as well!

Holiday Hiatus

I may not be around the internet for a few days - courtesy of a bet from JB, and a trip down to Georgia, beginning this afternoon - so Happy Holidays everyone!

Hope all of you have a wonderful week, and everyone gets well from their colds!

FH's voice...

...is sublime. She's reading a passage from the middle of my novel, and it made me feel like a writer, hearing her read this. Her voice is gorgeous, and her reading is amazing.

FH, I'm so honored. Thank you very much!

Again, I can't link, guys (I really have to learn), but FH posted a link to her reading in the comments trail under the "Voice Thingy" post below.

And Sylvia posted a link to her reading in the comments trail of "Here's Mine" - and hers has links to everyone's as well, if you want a complete list to check against.
Sylvia, if you pop on today, could you add FH's to your list?

Evil Sex Apeel for the Holidays

No idea how to make this a link, people, but you really do have to go and see this.
I mean, you really, really do. Really.

http://lottery-loser.blogspot.com/2006/12/sex-apeel.html

Here's mine.

Voice thingy has started - Happy holidays!

Hi,

McK has posted her breathy beautiful voice doing a breathy beautiful financial shake-up kind of a deal, to start us off with the proverbial holiday bang. (Sorry, I absolutely had to say it that way. Had to.) As this was her excellent idea, it's the perfect way to start! I haven't learned to link yet in the text, but the links are on the righthand side, although my guess is, we all already have them.

Please pop a note on here when yours is ready, so we know to go there. Mine will be along this afternoon.

And while I'm here, let me wish all of you very happy holidays in whatever way you celebrate! Lots of us will be out of touch next week, so I wanted to make certain I said it early.

ril is...

...a proud papa. Well, he was already a proud papa, but now he's proud times two, with the (very) recent birth of his beautiful son.

ril, you're one of my very favorite people. Congratulations to you and your family!

This one's for Whirl....

I finally found the picture I thought of when Whirl posted the pic of his dog a couple of weeks ago. Well, I didn't find it, the Blondster did, as she was looking through boxes and boxes of family pictures this evening she also found a few choice blackmail-worthy pics of me from back in the day. No, you will never see these. Yes, I'm serious. In one, because of the fading of the photo, my hair looks orange.) For those of you who haven't seen it, Whirl had a hoot picture of his dog, back in the 1970's, sitting in an orangy-brown color scheme room that would knock your little 21st century boots or socks off, were you to time travel back there. Apparently, those were the Orange Years.


Anyway, here I am, 1969 (date on the back of the picture)in my living room, and my dad had dragged these little 'ice cream parlor' chairs, as my mother called them, from the kitchen and posed me with our dog, Cindy. The table in the picture was what my mother referred to as a Willett table, I believe. I don't know why, but it was a big deal to her that she had one. It must have been a status thing for the middle class of the day. When Blondster showed this pic to JB a few minutes ago, he snorted and said it looked like Cindy was winning the chess match. Hmmmmmph.




Got any pics to share of you in your youth, doing something lame? And really, I think even Sparky could do this if he found one from his early, early youth. Because I'm all about sharing.

P.S. I'll post my YouTubey throaty version of a packaging piece of JB's on the evening of the 17th, so if you all wanna pop on that post and let us know when yours are ready, that would be great!

Wanna do one last voice thing for the year here?

Hi,

Sorry I've been mainly absent lately, guys.

ril and his wife are expecting their baby on the 10th (and I think it's already the 11th where he is) so hope we hear from him soon. ril, if you read this later on, could we see a baby picture? I'm hoping all good things for you and yours!

And,I know that paca and freddie were drilled down with school stuff until somewhere in the neighborhood of the 16th to the 18th, so...
how about we do a voices thing, popping them on as we can from the 18th to the 20th?
Does that sound all right?

And what's the topic?

And Sparky, are you in?