What Stray Farce has been up to for the past two years since her previous incarnation as Martini Mambo*:

*this site became defunct and is now taken over by a site-squatting pill pushing douchebag

-two years in Albany, NY at new apartment where I experienced many misadventures which I would quickly like to forget because that apartment has bad juju.
-father passes away in March (heart attack at red light)
-go back home to Texas for first time in 7 years for funeral
-quickly realize why I moved all the way up to NY and come back home
-moved to Troy, NY, the Collar City, Home of Uncle Sam
-get promotion
-get new bookshelves (and some semblance of matching furniture)
-purge house of extra crap (actually, I'm still working on this one)
-cleanse aura of excess bullshit (quit second job to obtain this)
-fighting insomnia and depression.  am taking medication for the latter.  I'm not crazy/crazy, just your garden variety "mean reds"
-disowned mother (this may be temporary, haven't decided yet) after receiving one too many racist email forwards.
-working on getting my life in order. centering myself.  becoming zen.

That's the expurgated version.  The one without the gannet.

So there you have it folks. 

[Update: by the way, I just spent the last 45 minutes going through my old blog roll that I've had since 2002.  I can't tell you how many dead sites and accidental pr0n I got directed to.   But it's good to know most of you are still here and that I can catch up with old friends and web-acquaintances/frequented sites.  Gives one a feeling of solidarity.  (okay, I promise that's the last Breakfast at Tiffany's quote.  At least for today.)]