Champagne Ninja
About a week ago, Trav and I saw the Three Sheets NY Pub Crawl Episode. It planted a little bug in the back of Trav’s brain – one that I’ve noticed him chasing ever since. The critter will start skittering across the tidy space of his logic center, and in the reflecting shine in the corner of Trav’s eye, I can see him stomping after the thing down the hallway of his mind. Inevitably, it escapes under the rug of “More Sane Things to Do” and Trav switches over to the critical tasks of his daily life, such as resolving voicemail outages, paying bills and finding out just how many hockey games can be played in one week.
Then a couple days later, the bug will dash out from under the rug and start doing laps again. In the middle of a movie. During dinner. While I’m telling Travis where I’m stashing the box of lightbulbs that’s been out on the counter for, I don’t know, FOREVER.
Out of nowhere, he’d remark, “I want to sabre some champagne,” and go looking for the katana we bought when we took karate classes together a bazillion years ago. “Do we still have any? Let’s sabre it! It’ll be awesome.” he’d say once and move on. Yet every time the words shot out of his mouth, it sounded for all the world like he was saying, ‘There’s this annoying pressure in my brain. RIGHT HERE. Can you see it? Would you scratch that? OMG. It’s killing me. I gotta get it out. Out. OUT!’
That damn bug struck again around 7pm last night.
Originally, the plan was to kill it in the kitchen. But after the dumb-assery that was New Years Eve – when I not only spilled red wine all over the carpet, but also nearly blew a hole in the ceiling when I took it upon myself to ‘help’ open the champagne (by removing everything BUT the cork and setting it on the coffee table next to Trav…while he was playing Halo) – we thought it best to take the action outside this time.
Even though, duh, IT’S REALLY DARK AT 7PM, we attempted to capture Trav’s moment of glory in the following video. (NOTE: to watch, hover your cursor over the image and click the Play button)
This looked fine when I played it last night. But if it’s too dark, don’t worry. Something tells me the bug’s gonna be back for his birthday.
Peek…
My reeediculously photogenic sister playing with her daughter in Albuquerque, October 2007
Photo Posting Change
The posting process I set up for my photo feature has always kind-of annoyed me (i.e. – I make two images for each picture, create a page, reorder all those pages so they’re sequential, post a link to each new photo on three other pages…basically it’s a pain in the ass. And with all that work, it doesn’t even show up in RSS feeds as a new post. So, bah to that.)
Today, I pretty much decided I’m not gonna do that anymore. Instead, I’ll be slapping ‘em up directly as individual posts, so you’ll see new photos as soon as they’re available.
What I don’t yet know, is what to do about the photo archive. I’m 90% sure I’m going to retro-actively change them to posts and actually use the tag for the ‘photo’ category over there on the right. Which basically means if you’ve bookmarked any of my current photos, your links will break because I killed the page and reposted it in a new location. Also, if you use a feed to read this blog, you’re may see a LOT of old photos showing up as new posts.
But it ALSO means that all my photos will be in one place, all nice & tidy organized and accessible via one category. AND, you don’t have to constantly check back here just in case there’s anything new. (Although I like that.)
FYI.
