I don’t think I tell my friends how much I love them often enough. But they are awesome. They are, I would further venture to say, super-awesome. Here are three reasons why:

1) I met up with Karlene for coffee at her house last week. We talked about music and comics and that was fun and cool, no question, but then she gave me art. For free. Art that she made. Her art. Now the art graces my living room walls.

I sense I may be losing you, so here’s pictures:

2) Lianne and Corin came over for January Christmas (to make up for the fact that there was no December Christmas between us) and they gave me An Even Scarier Solstice. More Cthulhiana for the ever-growing stockpile of horror and madness. Iä! They also gave Mrs. C the latest Bathroom Reader and she was suitably chuffed.

3) Graeme stopped by today to help me work on my website, fixing a problem in half an hour that I had toiled on fruitlessly for three or four. (My 1337-ness is draining away. I can feel it. It feels like Superman does when you tape a lump of green kryptonite under his chair.) And all I had to do was pay him in organic coffee and conversation, which I was more than happy to do. (Let me tell you–that is more than fair trade coffee. *drum sting*)

See what I mean? I am a lucky guy. Thanks, friends.