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Step one: Get a box…

If you know, you know.

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It Happened to Me Tampa Bay

Anitra and me at “Grown-Up Night” at the Glazer Children’s Museum

Once a year, the Glazer Children’s Museum holds what I like to call “Grown-Up Night,” an adults-only event where we grown-ups can explore the museum and play with the exhibits as if we were kids.

Anitra’s been a member of the museum’s board for a couple of years now, so we’ve gotten to know the board members and staff of the Museum and of course we were there!

We got a couple of photos of us and Little John, the smaller costume version of Big John, the triceratops skeleton on display on the Museum’s third floor. They’re album covers waiting to happen!

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This weekend, in a nutshell

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Florida It Happened to Me

I finally got the front yard plumeria to bloom!

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I’ve been tending to them for a year since they’d been hit by a blight-like bug, and the work is paying off!

In other news, I have been living in Florida for ten years, and it’s beginning to show.

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Nine years ago today…

This is still one of my favorite pics from the wedding, which I like to call the “Elvis Movie Poster.”

Happy anniversary, Anitra!

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Happy Leap Day!

Comic panel featuring skeleton having cereal and coffee saying “What a year, huh?” and a cat replying “It’s February.”

It’s the last day of February — and a bonus day at that — so it’s the last day this image can be considered “current.”

It’s been an interesting year, where I’ve enjoyed some sights, seen family I don’t often see, and earlier this month, I got laid off. That’s a lot, considering we’re only one-sixth of the way through the Gregorian calendar, and one-twelfth of the way through the Year of the Dragon!

The next few months promise to be even more interesting, and I’m looking forward to taking them on.

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods It Happened to Me

Feel free to interpret this photo

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I was helping out at the “Speed Networking Lounge” at the Synapse Summit conference earlier today, where they divided the room into areas where people could go to discuss different topics, which were marked by balloons. I was in the “Artificial Intelligence” area, and after the speed networking session ended, they let me take the balloon, which I tied to my accordion.

The balloon’s been attached to the accordion all day, and the accordion’s been with me wherever I’ve gone all day, including the Rollin’ Mullet pub in my neighborhood. That’s when I noticed I had an opportunity to take an “art” photo — hence the image above.

Feel free to assign whatever meaning or symbolism works for you to the photo.