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Welcome to my Web site. My name is Chris, and I'll be your host. I live in Austin, Texas, with my partner, Ray, and our child dog, Mocha. You can read more about me, learn 100 random things about me, and if you're wondering what the heck a khowaga is, click here. Feel free to browse, read, and leave comments!

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Up in the Air

If I can borrow from my new blog for a moment.

I saw the movie Up in the Air on Christmas Day with my parents.  The movie, in case you haven’t seen it, stars George Clooney as a man who works for a company that gets subcontracted to assist employees with “career transitions”–essentially, this means that [...]

Back to da grind

Playtime’s over, children, and it’s back to work.

Nearly everyone I’ve spoken to had an absolutely wretched night’s sleep — I, myself, tossed and turned until well after 3, when I finally fell asleep and engaged in stress dreams about work stuff.  Hence, when the alarm went off at 6, and I took a good look [...]

Happy New Year!

Yes, I’m a day late and a dollar short, but *meh.

I’m not sure whether it’s that we’re getting older, that our usual party hosts are, like everyone else in the free world, feeling the pinch of a hard economy, or that we were just feeling less celebratory than usual, but the New Year’s gathering – [...]

Playing Around

One of the things on my Christmas list this year was a 50mm f1.8 lens for my camera.  It’s a fixed lens, meaning you can’t zoom in and out, which is new and different for me, considering the last lens I bought goes from wide angle to extreme zoom in one fell swoop.

I like it.  [...]

Alan Rickman’s Answering Machine

OK, not the life-altering year-end post I was envisioning … that’ll come later.  Ray and I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last night, and I noticed a couple of things.  First off, the cinematography is gorgeous.  Maybe it was because we’d seen Avatar earlier in the day that I noticed it –the [...]