So, I started a new xanga. This one is going to deal more exclusively with all the prop stuff that I do, but I had a devil of a time thinking up a name for it. I hope y'all think the one I settled on is appropriate, you can find it at http://www.xanga.com/the_skunkworks

As for my life, there's not so much happening. I continue to cook, paint things, play guitar and be obnoxious.

For the first one, here's one of the things that Amy and I cooked, homemade pizza. It was WAY better than anything I've had from pizza hut or anything similar, and cheaper too.



And this is one of the tools I've been using in my cooking:





I loves it, and so should any of you who appreciate beauty.

For the second thing, view other xanga.

For the third thing I mentioned, I tuned my guitar to open C, and started playing slide. I've decided I need a dedicated slide guitar, because it's difficult to play good slide guitar when you also need to have a playable action on the strings. It's good though, I played Amazing Grace in church a couple of sundays back, and I've been playing some Ben Harper since then.

As for the last thing I mentioned...well, you know me, right?

I have a theory. If you've seen some of these quizzes online, you'll immediately know what I'm talking about. They're the ones that ask you a bunch of trick questions in order to find out how 'stupid' you are. Questions like "Mary's parents had five daughters. If the first four are called Ada, Ade, Adi, and Ado, what is the name of the fifth?"

So they're not actually catching out any genuinely smart people, because they're sitting there laughing going 'you already told us her name, dumbass!', you're only further humbling the people who think they're smart. Which, in point of fact, is fine by me.

So, after you answer their 30 best 'tricky' questions, you're led to a page asking if you'd like to sign up for some offers. Well no actually, not really no. So after trolling my way through a few of those pages, I just closed the window. I'm not really interested in how intelligent some third rate idiot thinks I am. And then it hit me. That's the test! If you sit through all the pages asking you to sign up for this or that, asking if you are a smoker or have cancer of the ear, just to get your results...you're an idiot! By clicking away from the test in the first place, you pass, and can take your place among society's elite. Or at the very least, society's just about acceptable.