Woof, this week got away from me. I shouldn't complain about having a day off, but having a Wednesday off made it feel like there were two Mondays this week.

Today's also my Youngest son's birthday; who is doing awesome and has yet to complain about having Christmas and his birthday so close together. He's nine years old, that special age where Dad gives him a wad of cash to find himself a present...actually, he's wanting a WiiU or something, so the family is chipping in for him.

Since this is the start of the year, I have been thinking about what I'd like to accomplish in 2014. Well, "accomplish" in quotes, since I'm just talking about messing around here. But I'm not quite making any headway on that front, either. Still, we'll figure something out. I have a couple of homemade strips scripted out, that I need to take pictures for, so I'm hoping to get cracking on that later today. Hopefully...


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A brief, birthday note for the Youngest:

One brief story about the Youngest, as he sleeps off a belly full of cake: the other day I put his Blue's Clues DVD in for him, and he was watching and playing in front of it. I noticed the DVD repeated an episode he already had on video, since I've seen it about a hundred times. But, the VHS was different: the episode was Blue's Birthday, and the VHS had a little 'Birthday Candle Dance' number, and different video-greetings from well-wishers for Blue.

Did I say I had seen it about a hundred times? A conservative estimate.

Anyway, the VHS had a message from Gloria Estefan, and as the kid's watching the DVD, a message from Rosie O'Donnell comes on.

And he just starts bawling. Screams his little head off. This means:

A. He really, really likes Gloria Estefan.

B. Change totally freaks him out.

C. Concrete proof Rosie O'Donnell is eeeevil.

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