help, im being help prisoner in a bubble gum factory

seriously, i'm not but did you ever get that fortune in your bazooka joe when you were little? i did, and i always found them so disturbing. i would try to organize rescues, but noone would come with me, or even tell me where the bubblegum factory was. it was very traumatic, and always left me freaked out. looking back i think the brains over at BJ ought to make reparations and backpay for some of my therapy.

i am kind of being held prisoner though, but at least it's in a really nice prison. i needed some fresh air, so yesterday morning i came out to western md to catch up with co-worker/buddy jake and get some work done in person. we have a new release coming out and we needed to do a bug hunt, which i like to do in person and with beer and stuff. so we did that and bug hunt led to dinner with all his buddies, which led to lotsa beer, which led to star and kerry holing up in the guest suite downstairs. i was *just* about to take star out this morning, and was contemplating the a.m. creep when i very oh so vaguely remembered someone mentioning something about an alarm last night. i teased the idea for a while and realized jake had told me as i was concentrating very hard on getting down the spiral stairs of death that he was activating the alarm and not to touch any doors. doh!

so now star and i are locked up waiting for the boys to get up. we didn't go to bed until 2 or so though, so i will let them sleep a bit then we might go cannonballing. i've not yet determined how good a sport jake and eddie would be about this, but given enough spare time and no food i could probably get over my reservations.

in the meantime, we have ourselves planted by the 8x15 foot window of walls with a killer view of the stream that runs through the backyard, and we have wireless. we should be good for a while. i've taken some photos of miss thing in front of the window because the backdrop is incredible. i'm currently too lazy to bother with the transfer, but may come back and do that if the guys stay in bed too late.