January 2011

  • Mark Your Calendars – March 11, 2011!

    What are you doing Friday, March 11th at 10:30 pm?  Why not put those plans aside and come out to support April and me (and the rest of our amazing Improv 301 class) in our very first improv performance at the Salvage Vanguard Theater?  The tickets will be $5 (cheap!)  Plus, we need your cheers, your laughter,…

  • Mug Follow-up

    I’m causes me great sadness to have to deliver this news, but as of today no chipper holiday mugs were actually harmed.  We bore them great malice, yet there they sit in their green and red glory taunting us as santas, angels and snowflakes wave on. Should any of you who worried about their welfare among…

  • Holiday Mugs

    Jay came in the other day and asked, “is there anything I can shoot on Saturday?”  This was in preparation for a day out with his brother and friends where they’re allowed to shoot something other than paper targets.  We’re Texans.  Sometimes inanimate objects find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. The first…

  • Being Human

    Let me start by saying that I have no taste when it comes to television and it’s a rare day that I fess up to what is being recorded on our DVR.  There’s the good stuff that comes on a few weeks out of the year like Dexter or Shameless, which I’m really enjoying at…

  • I Am a Mighty Maker of Things!

    Simple Pleasures Originally uploaded by Big Blue Mess My grandmother sewed, my father sewed (and does carpentry and codes and is a professor and volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and gardens and has a bee hive (with actual bees, not the hairstyle – well, not around mixed company) and studies Permaculture), my step-mother sews/draws/paints/takes photographs, and…

  • Sam: Routines

    Originally uploaded by Big Blue Mess For months after we first got Sam from the hound rescue folks she had a difficult time coping with separation. Sam would shake uncontrollably to the point that I thought she was having a mild seizure and wail by the door (and this was with someone staying with her).…

  • 2010 in Review: Big Blue Mess Style

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. (Does anyone ever not get “wow” as the result?  Did some blog writer wake-up this morning, look at their blog 2010 review email and see it rated…