Category: 2006

So, I get a call today from Chopper Dave – he’s in town for his day off! Silly man! He drives up here from SC to hang out with Ben for a day. Crazy!

So, they call me to see what we’re doing on a Tuesday night – nothing – and come down to hang out. They got here around 5pm or so. We’re drinking beer and chatting until Nick gets home a little after 5 then we watch some Robot Chicken and catch up on the drama from Ben’s house and plans for the Con. The boys want to go to Buckhead Backlot to see Nacho Libre later on, so we’re hanging out on the new deck until they decide to go. They ask us if we want to go and I immediately say NO, but Nick is, like, wanting to, so I tell him to go for it!

They headed out of here to hit the Vortex then the movie at 10pm. I know I’m taking a big risk letting Nick go out with the Boys… You all remember the Fabulous Spewing Vomit incident from several years back… LOL

I could not find the entry about the fabulous Nick spew, but it was horrifyingly funny and I hope I don’t have to deal with it tonite!

I’m sitting on the deck with the iBook writing this and it’s a great night. I talked to Andy earlier and he’s doing ok. My wine buzz is excellent and I’m pretty damn content.

I’ll write more when the boys deliver Nick back to me – it should be entertaining!!

We worked all afternoon on various projects. I finished up inventory and Nick did some really cute art work for the PAWS programme. To reward ourselves for all this work (and Nick’s lucrative support gigs this week), we went to Book Nook and bought $100 worth of used books! Yay!

I was futzing around the internet and found this amazing link on FARK. For anyone who lives down here or anyone who doesn’t and wonders what Southerners are passionate about, go spend 15 minutes perusing this thread about the Waffle House. It’s silly and crazy and extremely Southern!

It’s enlightening and very, very funny. :-)

We had a wonderful weekend at home, doing home projects and personal projects. It’s our long weekend, so today is Monday for us. Bleh.

We saw Cars on Saturday afternoon, since it was too hot to work outside. It is GREAT! I highly recommend it! Pixar has done some amazing work with animation! Each film gets better and better. We got there late due to the long line at concessions and missed the short, but we plan to see the movie again. If you like animation, you’ve got to get off yer ass and see this in the theatre. It’s well worth putting up with the roomful of sniveling brats and rude black people – and that’s saying a lot!

We totally finished putting sealant on the deck this weekend. We found this stuff by Behr that is a stain/sealant together and it RAWKS. It should for $30/gallon! It has silicone in it and it sealed up our crappy, dead deck. We chose the darkest thing they had: cedar. The deck looks new with the new top rail and it being leveled. Ah! We are all about bandaids to this place and for about $80, we’ve rehabbed a dead deck! Yay! We’re still going to re-do the frame which has come loose from the house and worked loose in general and we may replace the floor at some point. The frame is an easy job so we’ll get it done this week.

We did our standard Vortex thing yesterday in the pouring rain – it was lovely! We came home and did NOTHING for the rest of the afternoon!

Today, we have a meeting with the owner of Masada Bakery, which will hopefully land us a web gig for them. I have to put together a menu of web services for him, so I gotta jet.

Andy called me a minute ago. Hobbes didn’t make it. His blood pressure kept dropping off and then he went into respiratory arrest. He passed this afternoon. Andy made the decision to keep him from suffering with the lung failure and I’m very glad he did that rather than hold on too long like I did with Dickens.

I only have one boy cat left. ::sob::

My heart is broken and Andy is beside himself with grief. Please send condolences to him at syndromezed at gmail dot com.

This is SO hard. I really hate it when my intuition is right and it’s not in a good way. I suppose this is part of why I never got an urn for Dickens or spread his ashes. I guess I’ve been waiting. I don’t know. Andy is bringing Hobbes home either at DragonCon or the Sleep Meeting in November and we’re gonna have a service for them both and perhaps spread some ashes. It would give nice closure, I think.

Needless to say, Andy still needs help with the huge debt of Hobbes’ illness. If you’d like to help, please use the Paypal button [removed].

We thank everyone for their support during this long week of hell.

Bast has taken her boy home. He didn’t suffer. May he sit in his fort at the window for all eternity.