Awww Allyson, of course he was bouncy and giddy. Very cool.

Aww, what a sweet dad story.

He was like a little kid with a new toy. I sent Fury a thank you email, but a real card will go in the mail ASAP.

My dad thinks I'm all in-the-know with big time Hollywood people. It's freakin' ADORABLE.

Allyson, that's awesome. Way to go, using your superpowers for good!

Allyson -- that is just so cute. How cool that you were able to get him all giddy and happy like that!

ION, one of my closest friends sent me a package of all sorts of fun foodstuffs that I like but wouldn't normally buy and certainly not when I've been so broke: kalamata olives, and roast red peppers, and rum truffles and an interesting Costa Rican pepper mustard and red current jam and lots of other stuff. It was a GINORMOUS package -- I don't even want to think about how much it cost her to mail it.

Allyson, that's awesome!

I'm safely in NM, below the whackass weather to the north. And going buggy over this keyboard. It needs a tilt. And to be quieter. Anyway.

I got stuck in security behind people who acted as if they had never flown before (and couldn't follow directions) which made it not possible to get something to eat. For the record? Newtons and crackers are really not enough to last until 6 pm. But I survived.

Skipping ahead to say...

Cute news - he is singing a totally butchered version of Bear Necessities on his own after 2 viewings of The Jungle Book. It is THE CUTE.

I guess I'm glad I included Satchmo's version on mac's jazz CD (which I'm giving to your brother tomorrow night BTW).

Man, Fury's just good people.

Allyson, that's so cool. And sweet. And cool.

I enjoyed the opening credits of The Prisoner a lot more than I enjoyed the rest of it. The opening credits? like Bullitt. The rest of the show? Like your crazy uncle getting himself tangled in a lawn chair and bellowing at your cousins, only in Wales.

Best. Description. Ever.

It's this era which really created Sword and Sorcery genre as we know it. It's the primary influence on REH, and it was also a big part of Leiber's source material for Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

Wow, I haven't thought about those guys in a long while!

The argument here is that you can only point to the bad retouching. Every other photo is retouched as well, but you don't notice all of it.

There's retouching and then there is major surgery. I recently had to alter photos for a jean company sales packet. The models had lost wieght or the jeans were too big, so there were huge wrinkles everywhere. They wanted me to "smooth" them out, which basically meant retailoring them.

eta: Allyson, that's so cool about Fury and your Dad's reaction!

That's so sweet Allyson.

Hey! we had an awesome garden.

Great gardens, yes. Commercial agriculture, NSM. (Yes, there is a bit, especially in MatSu, but really, not much.)