Your cards and letters.

I keep getting fan mail...

Sometimes people leave comments in regards to a topic or picture. That's cool...
Sometimes I get comments in an e-mail sent directly to me instead. This, too, is cool.
But if I get e-mail, then I have to respond, and since the answer might be of interest to all, I'll just post some of the answers here...

To DRG:
Yeah. The food was OK... Just not what we were expecting for Italy...
And yes, the potato skins looked like roadkill.

To HHT:
Her name was Claire, and even if I had her e-mail address and phone number, I wouldn't give it to you. For free.

To LAW:
Yes, Mark is a funny guy, quick with witty repartee and pretty much everything else too.

To KR:
Yeah. Sorry. Mark got tired of being on the webcam.

To GS, et al:
Yes, I look older, younger, grayer, lighter, heavier, more angry, taller and shorter with my hair cut.
THIS IS WHY I ONLY DO IT ONCE A YEAR.

To RD:
"Physalia" is my car. An Eternal Blue Pearl Honda Element... Often referred to by others as "The blue toaster."

Re: The pic of the door of my office.
(In reply to several people)

1. The pic is now a link to a bigger version. Click on it to see more detail.

2. The top sign reads "Some people are alive simply because it is against the law for me to kill them." (Some of you will do well to remember this...)

3. The one in the middle reads "Free Beatings Today - For more info, please annoy the ogre sitting at the desk within."

4. The pic on the upper left is Hunter when she was about 4, dressed as a Dalamation for Halloween, along with her role model.

5. The partially obscured newspaper clipping was a headline from a Brisbane newspaper that reads "It's OK to beat the kids."

6. The pic on the lower right (above the fish) is from Hawaii. The girl on the left is Geri Lavin and the one on the right is Janine Thomas.
No, you don't know them.
No, you can have their contact info.

7. The No Fish pic is for Marco. Originally posted on the microwave oven outside my office.
(Marco likes microwaved canned tunafish for lunch. Which means the stench of hot tuna pervades the office for the next 45 minutes.)

8. The pic of the ogre under the stairs (lower left) was from Cleveland, as I was running cables in the arena. You haven't lived until you've been down in the muck and mire that collects under the seats in an arena like the Gund...

Famous out-