I get a reward this weekend. Although I’m not actually sure what my reward will be, I know for sure I deserve one. Every day this week has played out the same. I spend my day at work bouncing from one project to the next with no time to breathe in between. Then I come home and spend a few more hours working on other projects. I get to spend an hour or so with Kathryn, then it’s time to go to bed. My stress level is getting dangerously high and I’ve had headaches, heartburn and teeth clenching issues all week. Fortunately, a bunch of deadlines end tomorrow, which means Saturday morning I’ll feel a whole lot better. That’s why I get a reward. Now to just figure out what it is. 

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I need to start blogging again. I need to start writing for my own benefit again. But the reality is I write all day at work, then I come home and write more for more work, and on top of that, I'm beginning to develop arthritis in my fingers so it's all a chore. And by the end of the day, I'm too tired or don't have time or I'd rather be slaughtering zombies on the xbox, spending time with Kathryn or walking the dogs. I guess I'm getting too old for this shit, but at the same time I refuse to give up my youth, hence the xbox, comic books and denial of gray hairs creeping in around the edges. So maybe I'll write here again tomorrow, or maybe it will be six months before never. Maybe the two books and countless conversations with people who never existed and never will know their own existence is entirely within the subconscious, consciousness that is my own warped imagination will come out tomorrow in full cover, hard-backed apocrypha. Maybe I will, or maybe it won't. For I wrote the book on that Schrödinger cat, and even I don't know how it ends.

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My hands are in this video too.

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This morning the dogs crawled through a hole in the fence and went into the neighbors’ yard to play with their dogs. Apparently this is not the first time it has happened. Incidentally, the first time it happened I was asleep and Kathryn was in the shower so neither of us heard the husband when he was knocking on our front door. Worse still, the neighbors keep their back door open in the morning so their dogs can come in and out as they please. So when our dogs make their uninvited visit, they go directly into the neighbors’ house, play with their dogs and annoy their cat. Fortunately, they are super nice people. So when I went over there this morning to collect our dogs, we had a nice chat about his dogs escaping yesterday and his other neighbor returning them. It’s a neighborhood thing I guess. To top it all off, our dogs were too excited to come home, so I ended up picking one up and tucking him under one arm while I drug the other back by the scruff of her neck. All in all, it wasn’t the greatest way to wake up.

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Saturday morning we loaded up the dogs and headed to the dog park. Unfortunately, we never made it. Instead, we ended up spending most of the day running errands and getting ready for a barbeque dinner we were hosting--one that we had decided to hold just before falling asleep the night before. The dogs, however, did get to go inside two pet stores and help pick out their toys and treats. So it wasn’t a total waste on their end. Also, couple of friends brought their part-greyhound puppy over when they came for the dinner, so the dogs spent several hours running circles in our backyard.

But back to the meal. First I rubbed seasoning on cubed pieces of steak. Then I made a BBQ-Mango marinade and glaze while Kathryn deveined a bunch of jumbo shrimp. We marinated the shrimp while I cut up red, green, and yellow peppers, zucchini, onion, and mushrooms. Then skewered everything, slapped them on the grill and hit ‘em repeatedly with the glaze. Kathryn made coconut-mango rice and I spent the last few minutes whipping up a double-pitcher dose of Mojitos. One friend brought some salad, another brought some beer and it was a meal made in heaven.

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We adopted a new rescue dog, Samson, formerly Badger. Technically we’re still in the trial phase, but I don’t see us giving him back – even if he ate one of the eyes off my sock monkey and has run away twice. Shilo seems to be much happier with a companion, and that’s the important thing. We just have to get him into doggie school ASAP.

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My parents drove back to Michigan this morning after spending five days with us. While Kathryn and I worked, they took in the sights. Then in the evenings, as per the usual Jamros tradition, we ate our way across the city. We also hit up trivia, played pool, listened to music, ate cake and visited the dog park. As sad as it was to see the car drive away this morning, it will be nice to have my bed back tonight.

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Woohoo for her. It seemed to be a surprise. She new it was coming at the end of the year, but it kind of snuck up on her.

I’m trying to post more, but between work, freelance work, and painting the house, I haven’t had a whole lot of free time lately. Parents are coming down this weekend with their new puppy and I can’t wait for Shilo to have a friend for a little while.

Kind of a short post, but I’m on my way out the door.

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