Along with 2011, our Christmas vacation is also drawing to its end. Was a good time -- meat puppies being the new tradition, along with old favorites like loud music and incessant bickering (da chimpz take care of that end of things).

I did work down some of my reading list, but not much. Back-issues of magazines mostly. Forget the books; my attention span cannot handle the strain of... whatever.

But we did make time for some creative exploits. A colleague snagged me a groovy Taj Mahal on his recent trip to India, so my home crew had to have at it. I think the resulting image captures perfectly just how things would turn out if the Mastandreas ever trekked to a major tourist site.

Why do I look so triumphant? Because it's Halloween: that night of mirth and mischief when my young sons pound the pavement to accumulate candies that I will shamelessly steal from them until they are all gone.

I'm like the government that way!


I should-a pulled down the gorilla mask for this shot. I'm gonna go grab another chocolate bar right about now.

Y'know, this blog needs an update. Perhaps some photos:

Yeah, we've changed.

Gotta get back to blogging now that the holidays are closing in. Facebook is so blowjhinski.