i'm slow, but i'm finally getting the who-on-forums-is-who-in-real-life thing. the clues help, thanks, guys. and jasonsan, i guess you'll be painting my jonny frame, #28, sometime this winter...

which brings me to make the following observation about delayed gratification...
it sucks!
i can't say i've ever in my life been so excited for something so far away. i mean, buying a house, going on a vacation, none of those are delayed quite this long. it's been making me think about pregnancy, really, since that's 9 months of delayed gratification, if you want the child, that is. then again, that's something i never plan to do and will thus be unable to truly compare. so alas, the wait for my frame shall be a new, bold experience. many beers will be drunk between now and the arrival, and many will be toasted in the direction of its arrival, and it shall come anon. and there will be much celebration. and possibly snow on the ground. or at least that nasty dc slush crap.
(end blather)