Rodriguez Family Events

Another year has come and gone. I believe cake was served and there might even be photographic evidence of the event... A good portion of the family showed up for a double birthday celebration. Junior and his wife, Karen, came along with Amanda, Anthony and Tony. Junior and I share the same birthday, but, years apart. Here I am sporting a Ghost In The Shell t-shirt. Earlier, I treated myself to the Everyday Tales of a Cat God DVD along with the newly and finally released Marine Boy DVD. Earlier in the month, Angel was spotted out in the wide world. From left to right: Lonnie, David, Liz, Mark, Paul, Shelia, Mary Jo, Angel, Allison, Mike, Jiun and Tracy. I retouched the photo a bit... As a general rule, I try not to mix work with the internet, but, I'll make an exception for today. The group shot was to celebrate an event. I replaced the event poster with another picture of myself and Lonnie. The other photo show my cubical. The cubicles are decades old and they certainly do look ...

Over the weekend I went to IKEA and picked up a bed frame with drawers. Strapping it to the roof of Mom's car turned out to be the easy part. I had previewed the items that I was interested in on-line, so, my choices were between a twin-size and a full-size bed frame. After seeing the assembled beds at IKEA, it was decided to go with the twin-size bed frame with two drawers (BRIMNES). The bed frame came in three boxes. My nephew and I wrestled the three heavy boxes onto a flatbed and manged to stuff the two smaller boxes into the trunk of my Mom's car. The largest and heaviest box had to be strapped to the roof of my Mom's car. We made it home safely in the rain with this unwieldy box strapped to the roof. My nephew and I removed my existing bed and bed frame and moved the three boxes upstairs. There were a lot of things that had to happen before I could even unpack the boxes. My comic book collection had to be moved. Some of my DVDs and the shelves they sat on had to also ...