Vanity, thy name is...

I'll hand it to the guys on the other side of my duplex. They've calmed down a lot. After I had the talk about the rebel flag they were flying on the front porch and after about the fifth or tenth time walking over there at 3 a.m. to explain to them their parties were getting loud, they've been pretty calm.

They fixed the truck, too.

All the same, I couldn't help feeling a twinge of happiness when I saw a big ol' moving truck backed up to the front door this afternoon.

The landlord says two girls are moving in on the other side. Girls are good. They don't have loud parties. Sometimes they bake cookies and share. They don't make weird smells that waft through the shared wall.

And just so you know, the site isn't abandoned.

However, I may be regaining Stouthouse.com back in mid-August, and if that happens, this site will be moving there - be prepared to update your bookmarks and links accordingly should that happen.

Yeah, like anyone links to this.

See, I used to have both Stouthouse.com and Stouthouse.org. I was a little lax in renewing the .com domain back in 2003, and some speculator got it out from under me. Never even put a site there, the punk. It expires Aug. 20, and I've got it backordered.

I've also launched JakeHallman.com, for more professional pursuits (y'know, "hire me to play piano or take pictures!"). If you have enough slavish devotion to me to want an @jakehallman.com e-mail addy, just let me know.

Anybody know a good place where I can get dark blue business cards with dark blue writing? I like the idea of having solid-colored cards that, when held just right in the light, read "jake@jakehallman.com."

Jeez... I shouldn't have written the e-mail addy. My first message received is going to be spam.