Cole enjoys "Race Day" with his race car themed birthday. Here are a few shots of him eating far too much sugar.

I haven’t had a good rant in a long time.  Trust me, I’ve had plenty to bitch about but I’m old and tired, and Cole keeps me occupied enough that I just don’t feel like spending the time.  But, after moderating another round of spam comments I thought I’d pipe up.

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Grady is moving to Manhattan soon so Squirrel of Shame played one last gig at Kells with Grady as drummer. Attendance was pretty good considering it was the day before new year's eve, and the drinks were flowing as always.

Cole woke us up bright and early (read: it was still dark) on Christmas morning so he could see if Santa came. I think there was some doubt he'd make then good list. He must have made it, because there were plenty of treats under the tree for him.

Ok, after what seems like too many late nights I’m finally calling the new theme to Urban Potato done.  I call it Granite, and because I have few design skills on my own I got a lot of the ideas for Granite from SquareSpace’s excellent site.  Hopefully they don’t mind.  This is the first time I’ve built a style from the ground up and gotten it to look like it does in Photoshop.  It’s also the first time I’ve done this against someone else’s HTML and I tried really really hard not to modify the HTML generation of BlogEngine.NET.  Here, I sometimes failed.  I thought it would be useful to document the good and bad parts of the process.

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