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Drinkin' for A livingShit, it's been a long time since I've put anything up here. Mostly I'm still taking care of Rowan, but I'm also now selling wine a couple of days a week at Fine Vines in Reno. So I get to sample a lot of stuff and I'm learning to talk like a wine snob. Kinda gotta do that, since most people who buy wine would rather hear "peppery, with hints of leather and lingonberry" than

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Tony and Carter C. Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. At this point a couple of weeks old. His birthday being November 3rd.

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The sticky eyes came with a lego set that Ro got for his birthday. He probably would have stuck the whole sheet to his face given the opportunity. More new pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelchr/Seattle was a lot of fun. It was good to see friends and family. Wish it could have been a longer visit, and we could have seen everyone that we wanted to. Maybe a longer one this spring or

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Iliad: part 2So after finishing reading Barrico's An Iliad last night I fell asleep and dreamed that I was playing Skee-ball against Achilles - to the death of course. After Skee-balling all day we were at a draw and decided to end the match amicably and go our seperate ways. This pretty much mirrors the fight between Hector and Telemonian Ajax in the Iliad, but substituting Skee-ball for spear

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An Iliad I just finished reading Alessandro Barrico's An Iliad, a reinterpretation of Homer's Iliad.The opinions on Amazon seem to be either love or hate, with very little in between. I have to say that I fall on the love side, and have no qualms about recommending it. It's a short read and you can probably push through it in a day or two without trying very hard. It's one of my favorite stories,

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RIP Bunny rabbitShe was seven and so was pretty old for a bunny. Her back hoppers weren't working so well anymore, and she was more or less falling apart. Still it's sad to see her go. She died last night in her cage. Rowan adored her, even if he man-handled her the way 2 year olds do.

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House CentipedeI found one of these creepy little guys on my living-room wall this morning. Odd since I've never seen one in Nevada before, and they supposedly thrive in damp places. I expect I'll let it go in my garage to help keep the spiders in their place.

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Rowan is an animist, Bunny an omnivoreI understand that this is entirely normal for a kid his age, but I still find it very amusing that Ro says hello and goodbye to many inanimate objects. Particularly funny today was "Good bye doggy-poop!" to a pile on the lawn outside of our apartment.As a result of Rowan feeding her table scraps, Bunny has started consuming things not normally eaten by any

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Tiffany BozicCheck out the wonderfully creepy painting of Tiffany Bozic.

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Visiting SeattleWe're going to be in Seattle arriving November 2nd and leaving November 6th. We have a wedding to go to on Saturday, and likely some sort of birthday thing for Rowan on the 5th. Rowan will be 2 years old, and the time seems to have flown by. We were considering the zoo and hanging out on Friday, hopefully the weather will be good for it. Meeting up for breakfast with folks on

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Tufa Rock Formation Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. I went out to Pyramid Lake this weekend to get a break from everyone and take some pictures of the rock formations. It's hard to get a sense of scale, but this chunk of rock is 30-40 feet high. I used to climb all over this in my teens and 20s. I'm not quite as brave now. The walls seem to be a bit more vertical than I remember.

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Happy TreesSo today at one point I flipped on PBS to see if there was some sort of kid programming on to distract Rowan with for a few minutes. What I got was Bob Ross instead which was cool with me because I totally love Bob Ross. Rowan was a bit less enthusiastic, but I made him watch anyway. So instead of distracting him for a while it ended up distracting both of us, but by the end of the 1/2

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Stick Magnetic Ribbons on your SUVIf you haven't already seen this video by The Asylum Street Spankers you should give it a viewing.

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Kid Safety LabelsThese are pretty cool. I worry sometimes about all of the electronic toys that Ro has and will likely have over the years and wonder if they will be a detriment to his imagination and creativity.

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Notice that the plate in this picture is issued by the state of Nevada.

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Online SteelI think that it's incredibly cool that it's possible to order metal via Amazon.

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The End of SummerAt least it feels like it. It went from being 96 a couple of days ago to today having a high of 65. That and it's windy as all hell outside. In addition I'm trying to finish up the wine bar logo I've been working on and I'm having a hell of a time getting going today. Maybe more caffeine is the answer.

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I recently picked up a copy of Vegan with a Vengeance and have been subjecting H to a lot of vegan cooking lately. It's a very good cookbook, whether you're vegan or not. There is a nightly pattern that occurs: I tell her what is for dinner, she gripes about weird vegan cooking, she eats dinner and likes it, she gripes about me cooking too well and her eating too much. I figure unless she wants

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The Death of Deux Gros Nez Party

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20060910CamelRaces37 Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. The camel races were pretty fun. Heather's initial commentary was something to the effect of, "I thought they would move faster than that". So she was somewhat bored, Rowan seemed to have fun though. They also had emu races which consisted of kids chasing emus with brooms toward a finish line, but I wasn't in a good place to take

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Camel Races today!!!Off to the camel races. Pics later.I stopped by Deux Gros Nez yesterday and the mood was rather somber. Employee's wearing black dress shirts rather than the traditional white. The burning question on everybody's mind seems to be, "where the hell are we all going to go?" So it isn't just me that's thinking that.

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I lost my damn cellphone. So if any of you have been trying to reach me that way, you should definitely give up now. I figure now is a good time to switch carriers, as T-mobile gets shit reception in Reno. Unfortunately T-mobile are being difficult about letting me retain my current number, so I will likely have a new number soon. If you want it let me know.

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The end of Deux Gros NezIt was announced today by the Chief that the Deux would close it's doors forever on November 30th. There is most likely going to be a big-ass party for the place when it ends, and I'll post some details when I get them. Tim decided to end it on his own terms rather than wait for the new building owners to either up the rent or give him 30 days notice. I can see his point

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I've been working on the logo design for my father-in-law's new wine bar recently. It's been a challenge because I'm not all that used to working with vector graphics, and to do what he wants it seems that's the way I have to do it. So I've been teaching myself Xara, and hopefully he'll get something worthwhile in the process. It is pretty cool to watch someone bring their dream to life and to

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Shop Class as Soulcraft The decline of craftsmanship in pursuit of training "knowledge workers" and the assembly-lining of "knowledge work" jobs. It's a good read if you have a few minutes to spare.

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Day 3 and 4Yesterday I did some work on a lomowall that I'm working on at home. It's a weird photo collage/mandala thing that's pretty fun and meditative to build. Right now I'm tacking it up with removable poster stick, but will likely make it more permanent once I've got it bigger.I'm going to go to Vikingsholm with H and Ro this afternoon and expect to shoot at least 1 roll of film before the

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Ro and Heather Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. We went to Rowan's friend Stella's birthday party today. She had it in a big indoor bounce house place. It was quite a bit more fun than H or I expected it to be. Lots of cute kids doing cute kid things. I took a bunch of pictures. We both took turns sliding and bouncing with Rowan and other kids.

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Bleachy Duck Shirt Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. Rowan sized, though he already has a duck stencil shirt of similar pattern that I made a while ago, so I may give this one away as a gift.

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Creativity Daily for SeptemberSo I saw this post by Summer Pierre and have been mulling it over and I guess sort of putting it off. I'm going to steal her idea, though I expect my output will be signifigantly different. I've been rather creatively lazy for a while now. Playing too many video games and giving myself excuses like not enough time with keeping house and taking care of Rowan. So, my

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Rowan and Heather at the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. Rowan really digs trains. He also finds them noisy and kinda scary, but usually his excitement overrides that. This was taken at Virginia City a few weeks ago. Yesterday we went to the train museum in Carson City and He was so thrilled I though he would explode. Pics of that soon.

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Cheeto and I went to see The Descent. It's hard to go wrong with hot chicks and rivers of blood. It is very effective at maintaing a sense of atmospheric creepiness, fear and claustrophobia throughout the movie. I've been waiting for more from Neil Marshall since Dog Soldiers came out, and this is a good follow up. It seems like horror movies have been going through a cool revival in recent

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Rowan likes icecream Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr.

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Rowan likes icecream Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr. A young Penguin is driving through Arizona on a hot summer's day when his oil light comes on. He gets out of the car and sees it is leaking oil all over the road.The Penguin drives to a service station and asks a mechanic to take a look. The mechanic says he has a few other jobs to do 1st, but if the penguin comes back in an hour,

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Rowan, Xia and goats Originally uploaded by MIchael Chr.

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Cheeto and I and our respective wives took the kids to Wild Island.

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So I've moved from Typepad over here to blogger. I decided I wasn't posting enough to justify the couple of bucks a month I was paying over there. It also seems that when I initially tried blogger back in early 2003 something about it bugged me, but I can't remember what it was and whatever it was doesn't matter now.I'm here in Reno and alive and well.

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