Twoo Wuv

Cuddly evil!

Because tomorrow is my birthday, my wife, who is the coolest wife in the history of the Cosmos, made me this:

Yes, it is a knitted Dalek. This was after the plush brain cell, the “What Would a Zombie Do?” spinner, and the tickets to a Jonathan Coulton concert in San Francisco in January.
I often wonder [...]

That Would Be Us

The quiet couple in the corner at the restaurant, reading and holding hands.
The couple laughing hysterically in the hotel room next door at some silly joke.
The couple that keeps striving to come up with the goofiest nicknames and terms of endearment for each other.
The couple that goes on those long bike rides on the hills [...]

Cheloniana

And so the other day, we were getting ready for our long bike ride; part of that preparation included slathering suntan lotion all over our legs and arms and faces so that the su wouldn’t broil us like lobsters. Jennifer handed me the lotion and I decided, in my own patented brand of logic, that [...]

Bean Trick: Or, Another Three Reasons Why My Wife is Cooler than Yours

Usually, when I decide it’s time to zark a computer to death, it’s my Linux box that bears the brunt of my incompetence. Last week, though, I booted into Windows to check out an image I wanted to work on, and discovered that I was unable to hook up to the Internet through Windows 2000. [...]

Five More Reasons Why My Wife is Cooler Than Yours

Classic Monster Movie Collection including: Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, and Phantom of the Opera.

The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

A really comfortable and gorgeous grey-green sweater

Chocolate Orange

And, best of all, a new grill for my continuing experiments in backyard food [...]

Unappreciated

There are times when I’m afraid that Jennifer just doesn’t appreciate me enough. In response to this entry in her journal, and her calling me a "beanhead" earlier this evening, I created this picture for her:

And this:

And, the piece de resistance:

…which is truly my masterpiece.
And my wife looks [...]

The Good Provider

"This is a test, isn’t it?" I asked my wife via Instant Messenger after a long pause.

"No it’s not," she replied, "and you really don’t have to if you don’t want to."

It was too late, though. I’d already agreed.

Back up a few minutes to where I’d told Jennifer [...]

Storm

The storms in the Greater Central Valley of California never get that impressive, at least not in Yolo and Solano Counties. True, there are floods and worse in this area every few years, but, on the whole, the weather around here is very mild. Today, the air has smelled like rain all day; I went [...]

Shooting Zombies at Dusk: Or, Five Reasons Why My Wife Is Cooler than Yours

So the other evening, I went out into our back yard to hang my laundry out to dry. I came back inside to hear the sounds of gunfire, screaming, and high-speed industrial music emanating from our living room. This would probably have been alarming to some people, I suppose, but I wasn’t at all dismayed; [...]

Wherein Our Hero Discovers He’s Been On Earth All Along

All in all, I think that Jennifer has probably made the transition from engaged to married more smoothly than I have. While I still find myself stopping dead in my tracks from time to time (inconvenient when I’m driving at eighty miles an hour down highway 80) and thinking to myself, "Wow! I’m really married [...]

To My Best Friend

Dear Jennifer,
Today is the day that we are married.
Do you remember over a year ago when we sat down in Borders in Davis with our calendars and your Palm Pilot and tried to pin down this date? We had to worry about the fact that half of my family has birthdays during this time of [...]

Two More Weeks

Sometimes, I go through periods where I’ll write an entry for this journal just about every day. At other times, a week or two will go by without me writing a thing. I think at this point I’ve gone for more than two weeks. I hope that I haven’t lost my one or two regular [...]

One

When I first met you two or three years ago, at a Dungeons and Dragons game that a mutual friend was running, I thought to myself, "That is the woman I’m going to marry."
It was just a flicker of a thought. I didn’t give it much thought, because we met and then we [...]

A Loss for Words

Yesterday in our office, our help desk manager announced to the developers at large that he felt he was lucky because his fiancee had told him flat out that she didn’t expect anything special for Valentine’s Day. He felt he was off the hook. The other developers, who are all married, nodded at his innocence [...]

A Bonding Moment

I’ve written before — and some of my readers might say, "Too much" — about my feelings for Jennifer. About how much I love her. About how much I adore her. About how strong I feel our relationship is. And so on. Read my November 6, 2000 entry on the subject, and believe me when [...]