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A particularly somber Christmas, folks, without my brother, the vital piece of the equation there (except in spirit), but I enjoyed a lot of laughs too.  Laughter is SOOO important!

10 Things I Miss About My Brother: 1)  Subway "Executive Lunches" at my place when he had his deliveries done, I had my video editing done, and we both "played hookey" from work, watched a movie...

To My Brother, Oh, Mark, I still miss you.The 40 years we enjoyed each other's company are but a splinter in the mind's eye of eternity.You just wanted to get ahead in the struggle of this lifeand...

I operated camera on a music video Sunday with a big crew.  Wonderful experience!  They were a 4-person crew and had every conceivable lighting and camera-related accesory, so it was easy for me to...

Got out and met a nice lady yesterday at Quiet Waters Park, who was watching the guys waterski.  She was very nice to me, we enjoyed some laughs, and talked openly about a lot of stuff going on in...

The holidays are going surprisingly easy.  Thanksgiving wasn't as traumatic as I thought it would be!  I brought up my brother at dinner and said "God rest you, Markee" without even breaking down...

Hi, folks!  All is well, I guess.  A bit of anxiety last couple of days when I went down to Miami and watched a crew shoot Casely's new music video for his song "Emotional".  I flirted with the...

The wedding biz has picked up again, which is great (it's easy money).  I suppose I feel kinda lonely, but no more so than when my brother was alive (our work schedules didn't coincide too much so...

I'm back on free-lance status, working from my home, which feels good.  Good to know though that I can call on the temp agencies and work for the little bucks whenever the big bucks dry up.  I'll...

Well, I completed what was supposed to be a one-and-a-half-week temp assignment, which turned into a three-weeker, because the agency couldn't find anyone else to fill that job (probably because it...

Working as temp for 3 weeks at Tyco (by far, the longest temp assignment I've gotten).  I'm assisting the maintenance crew with changing lightbulbs and air-fresheners in the bathrrooms, and...

Starting this "mystery shopper" job, which could be an easy source of dough to augment video & photography.  I'm excited!  Lookig forward to attacking it like a business and do as many assignments...

I re-joined the corporate world last week and am temping for several companies.  This is good because A) it boosts my income (my photography/video business, true to form, has tanked again this time...

Some news that, tragic as it is, puts me at ease spiritually.  One of my brother's many girlfriends, Trish, died last week.  She burned to death in her home.  The firefighters are ruling out her...

Learning to Live With Less:  Tragic loss, while it makes one lose interest in everything, also helps one appreciate what one has.  I got so caught up in having the latest, greatest "tech toys" etc....