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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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Writer’s Block

It’s been a while.

My self-appointed critic, in the parlance of Amelia Peabody, has been on me.  “You haven’t written anything,” he tells me.  And so, I think about what to write.  And I think.

At about 12:30 this morning, I had a brilliant idea.  I remember thinking that it wouldn’t go so well with the photo [...]

Of Doors and Windows

A blanket thanks to everyone who commented or messaged or Facebooked or Twittered (Tweeted?  Twitted?) the past couple of days.

Ray is doing OK — he’s still not entirely sure what to do with himself all day long, but that’s probably to be expected.  On the flip side, he’s giving serious thought to going to school [...]

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 – [...]