The Vacation has Ended

After taking an entire week off from work and this website I am back. I usually rather enjoy my time away from responsibilities but this wasn't exactly the most relaxing vacation ever. I'll spare you the many details of why it wasn't that great but I'll tell you one small story from last week.

It all started the very first day of vacation after getting off of work. I was driving home and then we would be leaving for New Jersey shortly after that. It was raining and I drove through a large puddle which splashed water into the engine and the car nearly stalled in an intersection. Smoke and steam billowing and check engine light flashing, I pressed on. We got on the road around 6 pm that fateful Saturday night. The rain was heavy and I could barely see the road in front of me. As we neared Philadelphia traffic slowed to a crawl and that's when realized that the Phillies were in the World Series! A trip that should have taken 2 and a half hours ended up taking 4 and a half. There were a couple times that we considered stopping at a hotel for the night because the rain was so bad. But we made it! The visit to relatives in New Jersey was pleasant but driving in New Jersey is not. At most intersections they don't let you turn left! You must turn right and go around a loop just to get back to the intersection in order to go left. Craziness! Their politicians should be run out of office for laws like that. We got lost on a couple of occasions thanks to that. On the way home we got lost again because of crazy road changes. And that my friends, simple set the stage for how the rest of the week went. It's not like anything terrible happened but nothing good happened either.

On a brighter note I finally finished my first online store. Three months ago I mentioned that I set up a small page for Wizkids Pirates of the Cursed Seas and that I hoped to develop a store out of that to sell some of my extras. Well I finally did it and got my first sale within the first couple days. Here is the link to the store: Pirates for Sale! I'll keep you posted on the growth or lack thereof of this new venture.

I also took some time to fix one of my other sites, substandardstudios.com. Apparently the blog portion of it hadn't functioned right for months.

I spent some time working on music as well but I wasn't nearly as productive as I had hoped to be with it or with many other things I had hoped to accomplished. Eh, life goes on.