Halloween is just too cute. 

Remember, you’re only seeing these on Flickr if you’ve JOINED and you’re listed as my FRIEND.  If you’re not, you’re missing out, so get on it!

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what the frick is this?, originally uploaded
by dnordquist.

This was crawling around on the ceiling after dinner, near the door.  I suppose it snuck in.

Christie said "oh, it’s just a boxelder bug" but it’s brown, with bumps on its back, and rather more spidery legs.  Antennae up front were very interested in whatever I was doing with the camera.

I’m creeped out.  What the frick is it?

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DCP_4567, originally uploaded by dnordquist.

Okay, all, listen up.   I just got off the phone with a nice man at some medical hair restoration place, and he said that I’d called asking for help with my baldness problem. 

"Uh, no."

"That doesn’t sound familiar?"

"No."

"You’re not experiencing any hair loss?"

"No."

"Must be a prank, then… sorry about that."

"No problem."

So, first off, is it one of you?   Because until someone confesses, I’m going to start punishing you all at random!

Okay, that won’t work.   You know what, if it’s you, I’m sad for you.   Because you didn’t even get to see my confused expression.

But then I thought, hmm, maybe someone at work can see something I can’t.   So I took a couple shots of the back of my head, and lo and behold, there’s something kind of pinkish about the back of the part there.   It’s more "AFTER" picture than "BEFORE", but it’s still photographic evidence of something I wasn’t really aware of.

I turn 29 Friday.   Not nervous about that at all.

Starting on Adam and Becky’s second birthday (one month from today), new photographs of them will not be posted here.  They will instead be posted, privately, to Flickr, a service to which I’ve already introduced you.  (Now would be a good time to sign up, if you haven’t already, and get yourself added to my list of friends.)

The reasons for this are pretty obvious: I choose to live my life fairly publicly, and share a lot of my personal information (more than is interesting, really) online.  But that’s my choice.  As my kids grow up, I have to respect the fact that they may or may not agree with me that this kind of exposure is innocent and enjoyable.  Right now, I have no idea who’s using these pictures, or for what.  While that, to a certain extent, is okay with me, I’ll be happier in the long run if I have control over who has access to their pictures.

I am a little concerned that there are people here who fall between "trusted friend" and "random stranger": Christie’s online quiliting friends, certain coworkers who would never admit they check my site, extended family… they won’t all get into Flickr, they might not be bold enough to ask for access, and I don’t necessarily want to cut them out, but I think that’s what I have to do.

So, to summarize: if you get your free, easy to set up, and very cool account at Flickr set up, you won’t miss anything. 

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becky has some crackers, originally uploaded by dnordquist.

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adam reading in bed, originally uploaded by dnordquist.

  snow on branches 
  Originally uploaded by dnordquist.

Just testing Flickr integration.  Never you mind.