Gingerbread House 2007

I spent far too much time building this gingerbread house on Christmas Eve this year. Bea's family teased me something awful for it, but no matter. It enabled me to hang out in the kitchen eating more than my fare share of candy and icing, so HA!

You'll notice the stick-gum clapboards, Mike & Ike masonry, mini-marshmallow smoke, Twizzler shingles, trim boards, and soffits.

This is my first gingerbread house since 1999 I think (replica of Milford, NH's First Congregational Church), wow, that's a lapse. I need to make sure and do another one next year. I would like to plan one out beforehand though so people can't tease me as much for taking so long because I'll have a plan.

A couple times as a kid, our mom would let us have gingerbread house making parties and we would be able to invite friends over. I think she used to measure out the supplies exactly so it would be fair for everyone involved. You know, each person gets 2 of each color of Skittles, M&Ms, and Smarties, one stick of Necco wafers, half a roll of Lifesavers, and a quarter cup of icing. NO EATING YOUR BUILDING SUPPLIES!

Pickle Christmas Song

Bea found this song today (by Judy Pancoast), and it's my new favorite Christmas song. After all, how could I not like a song about pickles? That being said, Dominic the Donkey is still a very close second.

Qbert, eat your heart out!

This is me playing around with some design stuff in Flash. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this yet, but it's fun to mouseOver with in the meantime. I recently updated some photo albums, added a list of my beer label collection, and some other stuff on my site, and I am working on adding some other new stuff eventually, probably after the holidays.

John McCain - the John McCain

John McCain showed up for his interview today around 12:45 today at the Keene Sentinel. He is shorter than I expected (General Grievous, you're shorter than I expected), and his entourage is both smaller and older than the others that have passed through recently. This is merely an observation of the people he is traveling with, not any judgement on the man or his Presidential plan. The interview should be online later tonight or tomorrow at www.NHElects.com