OT: I'm getting married Friday!!

[Jake Capps]

Hey gang just thought I would post a quick thread to let you know that I'm getting hitched on Friday! It will be quick ceremony at Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara CA. She is a cool chick who picks up my comics on Wed when I have to work late; so you guys would like her. I just wanted to share the moment.:D

[Nick W]

Congratulations my man & best wishes to the wife to be! :D

N

[Tad]

I got married in Santa Barbara too. Congratulations!

[Mikolaj]

What else is there to say? Congratulations!

[Mike Cross]

Congrats and good luck

[Hellmistress]

Congrats on the nuptials, dear heart, from over the Pond in Scotland!!

HM

[Myron L]

Congrats, my friend !

[Neil Hill]

Major congrats! I wish you both health, happiness, harmony in your home, and the ability to grow and mature together. :D

[gary bolt]

Congratulations Bandit. I hope you have a long and loving marriage.

[morna]

... to grow and mature together.

personally I think all this becoming mature thing is highly overrated ;)

congrats! I hope you have as happy (and immature) a marriage as Gary and I

[jnapper]

Best wishes to Bandit 37 and the future Mrs. Bandit 37!

[hellboyone]

Congratulations! Have fun!

[Otto66]

Crap, Jnapper took my post.:eek:

Anyway. Best good wishes to you and your new bride.
To misquote an old song,"May you luv each other more today
than yesterday, but, not as much as tomorrow."

Hope ya get a digital camera as a present so you can post
some pics.

[Neil Hill]

I'm shocked that no one, even jokingly, as told him not to do it! :D If I'd thought of it earlier, I just would have had to. I guess that's my inner Loki coming out. Seriously though, best of luck Bandit!

[Jon D.]

Congrats holmie. :)

[Sparky]

Congratulations!

[Otto66]

I'm shocked that no one, even jokingly, as told him not to do it! :D If I'd thought of it earlier, I just would have had to. I guess that's my inner Loki coming out. Seriously though, best of luck Bandit!
Well, I toyed with the idea. Even rewrote my posting a couple of times.
But it ended up reading too snarky. Decided sweet and soapy was the way
to go.:)

[Maija]

Congratulations! :)

Did you register at the comic shop?

(I would register at the comic shop).

[Celtic_Fiddler]

Hey gang just thought I would post a quick thread to let you know that I'm getting hitched on Friday! .:D

Yay! Congratulations! Wonderful news! :)

Andrea

[Gene Poonyo]

Pssst...it is not too late to back out.:p

CONGRATULATIONS!!! May this day be magical.

[Jake Capps]

Thanks for all of your kind words! Every thing turned out great, and we are both very happy. As an added Fanboy bonus we planned the wedding around the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. We go every year to see Ray Bradbury. And every year its worth it! He still has so much passion for his craft. And as a tip if you ever go; get there an hour early, and you can get the best seats in the house. We were 3 feet away, it was very cool. He signed afterwards, and hooked me up by signing my copy of Ray Harryhausen's An Animated Life, that Mr. Harryhausen signed for me at last years SDCC. And like I said the wedding was cool too. I hope to post some pics of both events soon. :D

[petriacce]

Congratulations to you both. Marriage can be an absolute blast! Don't get bogged down in all of the details. Enjoy each other every day and have a lot of fun like my wife and I and that wonderfully crazy couple Gary and Morna! :D

Cheers to you both and I'm glad the day went well.

Pets.

[Otto66]

Looking forward to the pics.

[Sparky]

Enjoy each other every day and have a lot of fun like my wife and I and that wonderfully crazy couple Gary and Morna! :D
...or just scream and fling dishes, lamps and small household appliances at each other like me & my husband!

/just kidding
/mostly
/I can't help it, I'm Italian

[Neil Hill]

Glad the ceremony went well, and that you also had the added bonus of being able to attend that conference! Also, extra points for marrying someone who doesn't mind attending said conference on or around the time you got married. I'm pretty sure most wives would be adamant that a honeymoon would need to be more....shall I say....romantic. :p

[TheRonin]

well, I am late but better late than never, right? ;)

Congratulations, Auguri e figli maschi :)

Francesco

[jscott]

Yes...I'm late to the party, but CONGRATS! I wish you nothing but giddy happiness and joy.

And listening to and meeting Ray Bradbury sounds pretty okay, too;) ...he's been a huge inluence of mine since I was a wee lad, "Dandelion Wine" and 'Something Wicked' sitting firmly in my all time faves list.

Again, congrats!

[Jake Capps]

Yes...I'm late to the party, but CONGRATS! I wish you nothing but giddy happiness and joy.

And listening to and meeting Ray Bradbury sounds pretty okay, too;) ...he's been a huge inluence of mine since I was a wee lad, "Dandelion Wine" and 'Something Wicked' sitting firmly in my all time faves list.

Again, congrats!


Mr. Bradbury said the sequel to Dandelion Wine will come out this summer. He also said it only took him 50 years to finish it!:D

[Otto66]

Mr. Bradbury said the sequel to Dandelion Wine will come out this summer. He also said it only took him 50 years to finish it!:D
Nice to hear that new Bradbury is on the way. I'll have to reread that story.
Don't remember it needing a sequel, but, it'll great to see what Bradbury
has in mind.

[treden]

My wife and I just moved into our first house over the weekend, I apologize for the delayed felicitations.

I hope you wedding day was wonderful.

Congratulations.

Treden

[Sparky]

My wife and I just moved into our first house over the weekend...
Well, that merits a congratulations as well! Home ownership is great fun especially when the heater dies and a skylight blows off in a rainstorm so it's raining into the bathroom and you discover owls have been living in the rec room ceiling and why on earth did the previous owner install those windows upside-down? hope all goes smoothly for you. :)

[Neil Hill]

especially when the heater dies and a skylight blows off in a rainstorm so it's raining into the bathroom and you discover owls have been living in the rec room ceiling and why on earth did the previous owner install those windows.

Great googly-moogly, that sounds like the plot for a John Candy movie, circa 1980's!! The Great Indoors perhaps? :D

[Maija]

Around here, rec room ceiling owls are a selling feature, like granite countertops and track lighting.

[Sparky]

OWL STORY TIME!

There was a water-damaged spot on the rec room ceiling, so my husband decided to cut that piece out and replace it. So he's up on the ladder, sawing away, and when the cut piece comes free, it is accompanied by a massive deluge of gray dust and dirt chunks. He steps down, covered in this stuff, and notices the “dirt” is crunching under his feet. Looking closer, he sees the stuff is not, in fact, dirt, but thousands and thousands of tiny BONES and SKULLS.

Apparently there was a vent grill on the outside of the house, just above the ceiling, that had been broken for years. It was sealed up just before we bought the house. In the 20 years meantime, whole generations of owls had been using this long tunnel between the joists as a home (why the previous owner never noticed all the action in the ceiling, we'll never know).

After a brief omg! hantavirus! scare (thankfully, the remains were too old to carry it), we ripped down the drywall and pulled out two 32-gallon trashcans of ancient owl refuse. I did keep a big bucket of bones (http://www.phobe.com/bucket_o_skulls.jpg) to use for art projects, so I guess it wasn't all bad.

[Otto66]

Sparky tells the best stories.:)

[Jake Capps]

I would love to see some of your "owl bone art"! Do you have any pics Sparky?:D

[treden]

Home ownership has been fun. We owned the house for one full day when a storm took down the phone lines. On day two the basement drain overflowed. We hadn't even moved in and we had the phone company on ladders and a plumber in the basement.

To be perfectly honest though, the house is great and so far these few things have required very little of us either in time or money. What we need is to get unpacked and settled.

It is so cool to know that if I want to tear down a wall or build an addition I could. I probably won't but it is my house. Renting had its merits but ownership seems the better deal.

I met one of my neighbors last night. He was an old man that reminded me a bit of Justin Wilson, the cajun chef. He was walking in the alley behind our house and stopped to say hello, and tell my wife and I about the vasectomy he had 26 years ago. Nutty, but harmless. It adds character right?

[Otto66]

...and tell my wife and I about the vasectomy he had 26 years ago.
The stories that some folks share when they first meet their neighbors.
Now, yous guys will always refer to him as "Vasectomy Guy".:D

[Neil Hill]

Although the stories you wonderful folks are sharing here are a hoot (pun very much intended), I feel very fortunate that when my wife and I got married she already had purchased a home previous to our union, and it was only a few years old at that. In other words, no previous owner didn't do this or that issues, no basement mildew or flooding (as we don't have basements here in AZ), and other such issues to deal with. Granted, if your A/C goes out in the Summer here, you're in a whole new and different world of hurt, but thankfully that's only happened a few times in the last almost 5 years we've been together in this house. :)

[Mikolaj]

Huh... My family house is quiet an oddity. Exept for the fact that one I moved in with my parents [and that was like 10 years ago] our naibour had a very "healthy" habbit of dragging his wife by her hair an littetaraly pulling her after him on the gorund. :confused: Yeah. And the fact that the previous owner had some kind of a phobia aobut war or something so under our grassed garden we have now a shelter in case "germans bomb again: =_= .
I'v moved out 10 month ago and now visit only on weekends. Now I live ina 1930 block in Cracovia and I have my own share of peagon, homless, crazy elderly people stories. My point is- the wierder the charmer! At least when I'm old I'll have some strange stories to tell my neighbours when I roam by their house! ;)