Happy New Year, I guess. My least favorite Holiday -it's not like I need an excuse to drink. I'm drinking right now. Keri took the kids to Fairfield to meet some distant relatives and I got home from work a little early. I have about a half hour to make an entry. I'm just trying to stay in practice with this dreamweaver. Someday I'd like to add more MP3s and stuff, but I have to keep up with the basics until then.

Right after I made my last entry I learned that Scotty from the Rudiments, Faggz, and drummer for a lot of other bands, was hit by a car and paralyzed from the chest down. I think I've thought of him everyday since then, but aside from a few emails and talking with a few people... I don't know. I haven't talked to him in three years, but I haven't looked into how he's doing since talking to Donna at the Schlong show on the 17th. She was in on one of his surgeries -being a surgical tech. She said he had long thick hair and looked like he had been in good shape. The last I heard was that his hair was falling out and Artimus Pyle kicked him our or he left. Whatever, I remember him telling me he was drummer since age five. When I first started seeing Keri we'd drop by unannounced at the Hickey hotel. Scotty would welcome us despite the fact we were just there drinking beer. Each time he'd have a new addition to the room to talk about, like making this evil looking light projection on his wall. One time he did these impressions and it was a side of him I'd never seen. ... Donna said he gets full coverage in a decent place in SF whether he has insurance or not. That actually set my mind at ease a little -even though the devastation of the injury.. I don't want to say anymore here. I need to find out more before I start making comments. He's been on my mind though so ... The only photo I have of him downloaded on my computer, ironically, is from New Year's Eve about five years ago.

(Six hours later) I tried to upload this to the site, but quit in frustration. After an email to Brad I learned I didn't add "htm" to the end of my link. I'm a moron. New Year Eve tonight, at Keri's suggestion I showed Lydia each month on the calendar leading up to watching the ball drop on Mtv so she could have New Year's three hours early and get to bed. After the countdown Snoop Dog introduced Greed Day and we bounced up and down. I think she was more confused than anything, but she'll put it all together eventually. She already understands that it's a ridiculous holiday. Henry was asleep. He's grown huge in just the last three weeks. He scarfs down food and likes to bang things. He's a different kind of baby than Lydia was. He's definitely a momma's boy and very laid back.

I can't figure out how to add color anymore. This new dreamweaver is a little different. Craig did most the work on this web site. Craig lives in Alameda now so I'm on my own. I don't have a dreamweaver book or anything. I should check the library. If they don't have one they may buy one for me. I've learned that whenever I want a book on CD I make a request on the internet and the library usually buys it for me. I listen to books on CD all day long at work. I listened to the Last Juror today. I must have listened to about 50 books this year. I work by myself. I start early and if I'm lucky I never have to talk to anybody. I like starting at 4am because everything is dark and peaceful. By the time the sun comes up I'm a third the way through my shift. I used to work my ass off, really tough pain in the ass work when I had all the lagoons. I lost about 25 lbs. Went from a 38" waste to 34". Now I'm not working as hard and gaining some of it back again -- okay, gotta go, my wife is drinking a very rare celebratory beer (three years straight now of being pregnant or breastfeeding) so we should hang out instead of me sitting at the computer.