After much gnashing of teeth and downloading of various add-ons, including a compression utility for pngs, I created an animated ad for flotsam:

I did this all by myself. I’m very proud of myself.
Unfortunately, it’s about 170 K too large to use at Project Wonderful.
Curses.
Update: I guess this was a blessing in disguise, as neither [...]

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The Girl went to band camp at the coast yesterday. Since The Wife had already gone to the coast and back last week, and was still recovering from it, it fell on me to provide transport. In other words, my responsibility as a father required me to drive out to the coast. Bitchin’.
My daughter packed [...]

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In case you didn’t know, in addition to managing this train wreck of a blog, I am a contributor to the Portland community blog OurPDX.com. Unless you are a frequent visitor at OurPDX, you can be forgiven for not realizing that it/we are celebrating our first birthday today.

What that means is that we have co-opted [...]

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The Wife was kind enough to snap some cellphone pics of the dog enjoying the beach yesterday. Apparently when he got overheated from bouts of playing fetch, he would cool off by simply dropping into the nice cool seawater.

Happy dog.

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One of the things I introduced The Wife to, after prying her out of the midwest and forcibly relocating her to the People’s Republic of Oregon, was tidepools. It was not a difficult transition for her, since an existing predilection for pretty rocks and sparkly things already meant that she spent all of her time [...]

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I was out driving the other day when I noticed a bumper sticker on the minivan in front of me. It said:

Well, my first thought was that the van was owned by some crazed cat lady. Some poor scraggly-haired spinster who had focused all of her attention and affection on her little furry “children”. She [...]

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