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As some of you already know, my primary employer, Studio Arena Theatre, is ending its season early. The board of directors has determined that the best direction forward is to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Many years of mismanagement has brought things to the point where we can't even buy basic supplies like batteries and toilet paper. There is hope that the theatre can emerge successfully from bankruptcy and produce a smaller season in the fall. In the mean time, I am volunteering my services to maintain their web site, so keep looking there for news and updates.

OK. FINALLY I have installed a spam filter. Let's see if it works.

Today we hiked to Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskills. Normally getting there isn't a challenge, but that section of route 23A is undergoing road work, so between that, and a good Samaritan call to AAA for a broken down car, it took us an extra hour to get to the foot of the trail. The trail itself is very well maintained and worth the trip by itself. We climbed to the top of the lower falls, where there is a shallow pool. After playing in the water and lying in the sun, we returned to civilization. My camera behaved a little better today, so there are lots of pictures.

Today we visited Belleayre Mountain where we hiked from the "Discovery Lodge" (elevation 2025 feet) up to the "Sunset Lodge" (elevation 3325 feet) using a combination of hiking and ski trails. I would have taken more pictures, but my camera isn't behaving too well these days. photo gallery

OK, maybe famous might be too strong a word, but I want to share none the less:

Hierarchical forms with fleegix.form

A few of the kids

Studio Arena weekend at Hickory Hills

Family vacation at Lake Charleston

On a side note, I apologize for the invasion of spam in the comments. I've got some plans to write in a filter, but haven't had the time to do it yet. In the meantime, I hear it tastes great with some Ketchup.

We took a field trip to Yonkers to return some rental equipment to Sound Associates. We set up camp in their parking lot and figured "What the heck, let's cook up some hot dogs." Actually, there is more to it than that, but the story is really not that interesting. Well, OK, since you asked. They usually do a cook out on Fridays when it is nice out, but since they were so busy and we had 5 pounds of Sahlen's in the freezer, we dug out the grill and made sure they wouldn't forget the guys from Buffalo.

Kevin, to Corbin who is playing with his hot dog:

"Corbin, I am only going to tell you this once, so listen good: There is no playing with your wiener at the kitchen table."

I figure this should be good for a few comments.

I updated how the pages are cached, which changes absolutely nothing that you can see. However, pages should load a lot quicker the second time around, like thumbnails in the picture galleries and stuff. If you notice any strangeness - comments not appearing, pictures not loading, money missing from your wallet, etc. - then send your carrier pigeon my way. Due to environmental issues, I am no longer responding to smoke signals.

Isis is kind enough to let Sadie use her bed. Most of the time she just hogs the whole thing.

I've rounded up a collection of pictures taken since I stopped doing updates sometime late last summer:

The Oct. 13 storm: the Storm and the Cleanup

The kids: update 1 and update 2

Enjoy! Hopefully I'll do a better job keeping updates coming.

So, after 9 months of neglect, the site has been updated. Some things haven't changed though. If you are still using Internet Explorer, you really should stop now and go somewhere else because IE is a lame excuse for a browser and I refuse to hack my code to support it.

Anyway, new pictures will be coming just as soon as I make sure the site works the way I think it should. In the mean time, if you discover any bugs, please report them!

Gallery #50! There are now 770 pictures online.

Monsters on Wheels

Easter and a few more...

Palm Beach Pictrues

I got rid of the flash intro page. If you sill want to see the little intros, they are here.

Cookin' with the squirm and

Have a merry monster Christmas!

This is the update you have been waiting for... Some pictures of the zoo indoors, some outdoors, and some of our zoo making Christmas cookies!

Two more new galleries. This one is a bunch from the last 3 months. This gallery has pictures of the kids playing outside and celebrating Kira's 18 month birthday with "happy to you cake" as Corbin calls it.

Lots of pictures from June, and some more from today.

Fresh pictures. Get 'em while they're hot.

Pictures from the last month or so, including Kira's 1st Birthday.

Playtime at cousin's house and more miscellaneous pictures.

Indoor Monkies

Snow Monkies

Triple Whammy: a baby gallery, another baby gallery, and a whole stack of cruise pictures.

Kira is 2/3rds of a year old now, so here are some pictures of her all ready for Christmas. This is also the 30th gallery of the rug-rats for over 230 pictures.

The wait is over: page 1 and page 2.

Sum mo pikturz heerz.

This gallery comes with a bit of a sad note... It will likely be the last batch of pictures taken here in South Carolina...

The two rugrats have been keeping us quite busy, but we got some pictures of 'em.

Kira's first "official photoshoot" and the whole family

some printable and some not printable.

Home, day two

Kira, and Corbin too

meet Kira

last pictures of squirmy as an only child...

What do you do with a monkey on a warm weekend? Let him loose on a jungle gym!

Our very own Polar Bear.

More squirmy pictures.

I am way late with updates... I know... I'm sorry... anyway, ice, ice baby and monkey boy.

Corbin's Christmas fun.

sorry I'm a little behind, but with the turkey and all... here are the pictures!!

Corbin is 1 year old!! hard to believe it has been a whole year. I will try to get pictures really really soon...

check it out...

11 months! More pictures.

Check out the aerial photography done this past spring.

Wow, 10 months already. How about some pictures?

Corbin just turned 9 months old! 9 months. 3/4 of the way to 1 year already! Anyway, here are some pictures.

Can you believe it? Corbin is already 8 months old! Check it out!

Today is Corbin's 7 month birthday and we have more pictures! And you better darn well appreciate them because Lisa and I got eaten alive by mosquitos to get them!

Corbin's 6 month Squirmabration is online!

Mother Nature sure has a funny sense of humor!

This week Thursday Corbin logs 6 months of squirming under his belt. Check back a week from today to see what I've done with all the time on my hands...

Here are some new baby pictures. I apologize for the wait, but we were holding them ransom till Lisa's sister got us her pictures.

Happy Anniversary! KJFX.net has been open 1 year now.

Under threat of death, i have posted more baby pictures.

i think the drought may be over...

New baby pictures!!

Corbin is 2 months old today, so for his birthday, we got him 4 shots. He now weighs 11 pounds 10 ounces and if he could stand he would be 23 1/4 inches tall.

It's here!!

Added pictures of Fall in South Carolina.

Added my newest invention, the Bongo Bob Quote Generator! Why? Because I can.

Lisa finally caved in. We now have baby pictures: baby pictures

Itching to get us something for Christmas? Well, you're in luck! Our Wish List is online! (yes, I know, I have way too much time on my hands.)

I gave up my battle with IE for Windows. Since Microsoft can't get their act together, I had to lose some of my nifty CSS tricks. Using IE on Windows is like touring an art gallery in the dark!

Added pictures from Renee's wedding.

hot enough for ya?
darn good thing there is a lake in the back yard!

minor overhaul - no more frames!

cast your vote on the baby!
(clue: it happened sometime in february!)

open for business!