There’s a lot of 10 year anniversaries coming up the last 1/4 of this year. All of them bad. They start on October 15th. Although I don’t want to, I’ll be compelled to visit each one of them as they roll by. The trick will be to visit them without self-medicating, but to try to turn them into something positive. Also enduring the holidays. Sober. If I can win half of the battles, I will claim victory.

Starting in January, though, the good returns. In January, Sunny and I will have been together for 10 years. And there was much rejoicing.

So now that I’ve spent 5 months not posting anything here, the 1 of you out there who might see this is probably as surprised as I am to see a new post.

What have I been doing?

Hiking-exchange-student-visit-Maifest-Campout-Family-Reunion-high-stressed-out-work/life-imbalance, biking-making-great-homebrew-playing-mafia-wars, twittering-facebooking-playing-with-Titan&Gigi-Stacia-driving-pissing-off-friends, visiting-mother-in-hospital/home-for-broken-leg-SoundersFC-games-Seahawks, started-geocaching-squished-apples-drove-to-Leavenworth-working-working-working-new-projects-kicking-up-went-to-San-Fran-for-VMworld, 2-whole-weeks-in-Iceland-climbing-Glaciers-drinking-Lava-Vodka-eating-lamb&fish-swimming-in-geothermal-lagoons………

I think that’s about it, and not necessarily in that order. So, not much really. Oh wait, that’s quite a bit. Documented well on Facebook & Twitter.

Now it is October, and the fun part of the year begins. Fall, then winter. Holidays. 10 year anniversaries of nastiness. Dark, cold, wet days. Will he hold out folks, CAN he hold out?

“NO I CAN’T!!!”

(pushes big red button)

If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’ve been using Twitter since long before teh Senate decided it was cool, then everyone and their gramma signed up. The nice thing about Twitter is that I can say quick things here and there, without having a large post in a blog. I can say something like “It’s snowing again. Shoot me in the head”, from my phone; no blog needed. You might have seen a few of them on the panel to the left here.

If you want to be sure you don’t miss one not-fantastic tweet, you can find me at twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/guidothesquid, you can even sign up and follow me there and/or make your own tweets. IF you so choose.

I’m also on Facebook. It’s easy to make quick posts to these places. I can’t speak in paragraphs anymore, just short bullets. In fact, this message is already too-

May is Bike Commute month, apparently. I have challenged myself to bike to/from work every workday in May. I expect to be dead in 30 days, but hey! Butt hay? Why not? Might as well do something.

Just a quick update on the for the curious masses…

I visited, conversed, dined, and enjoyed my father’s company for the first time in 15 years+. We had a great visit. It went better than I would have imagined it could. It was surprisingly easy and comfortable overall, even if topics were not very easy to discuss at times. It’s amazing what maturity and experience will do for you. I wish I was able to do it years ago, but I wasn’t. He may be a complete kook (or not), but he’s a very happy kook. I understand him better now. I never did; never knew him. I gots me a pretty good peekture now.  We’re so very different, yet, so very, very similar in more ways than I realized.

I can actually call him, whenever I want, just to say hi; ask a question. What a concept. I live now without that source of conflict anymore; that bug in the system. I expect as the brain processes everything that has just happened that I’ll feel that weight lift. That will be weird.

This is what I am doing now; removing those burdens. No time (tolouse) like the present.

One by one, you all shall fall.

It’s been a while since I made a blog entry. Time has been slipping (slipping, slipping, into the future…) by and I don’t know where it goes, except for work, doggie and home/teenager care, and sleep. Other than that, it’s a mystery.

Tomorrow afternoon I board a flight to Dallas, where I then will go out to the wilds of Texas to meet with my father. We have been exchanging rather interesting email over the last month, and it’s been quite positive and informative. With the exception of an inconsequential meeting when I was in Casa Grande to move my mother to Centralia about 6 years ago, I have not had any contact with him over the last 15 years until now. This visit is huge, and anyone who knows me or has read this blog or its predecessor over the years knows that this is a major event in my life. A major positive event. Goober will be with me as well; I think it’s only fair that she meets her father-in-law. Finally.

Time will tell what comes from this renewed contact. But I’m glad we’re going down the road now.

I have finally upgraded the software for this blog. Let me know if you see any problems going forward.

A special shout-out goes to 2 very special readers of this silly little blog; my father and his partner/woman/lady/wife?/girlfriend?  MaryK, who have either just found it and starting reading, or have lurked around for awhile. Glad to have you! Be sure to check out the photo galleries and the travel journals. They’re more entertaining than watching turnips grow. I think. Also probably more entertaining than my drivel. ‘Cuz there’s puppies.

It’s an interesting time indeed, and I betcha little of it will end up here. This may be a public blog, but there’s plenty that never makes it here. Stop in and say hi. See you soon.

One year ago today we brought home the big lug, Titan. In the last year he’s been totally converted to a true goober dog. He’s one of da’ fam. Here’s a picture from his first day.

For whatever reasons, it seems like it is becoming time to deal with it. Things are in motion again, and I best grab onto the rail and follow. It is time to talk to my sister. Where this leads, I do not know. I only know that I can’t bear to leave this un-addressed any longer.

I will not be like my father. I am, the Anti-Dragon. Apparently.