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Greetings. I hope you’ve been well! Many things are afoot here at LBB HQ:

1: My two-month-old son is a wild man and I’ve been very busy admiring is newborn antics. Truth be told, my wife is the parental rock. She has deciphered his various cries, coos and grunts. All wondrous stuff I assure you

2: When time allows, there’s freelance projects to be done – stuff that I’ll eventually post on my the work page of this website. Many thanks to the magical Mike Doughty (and  Mai, his merch manager) for  hooking me up with the work.

3: In between the parenting/spousal duties and freelance design work, I’ve been scrapping minutes together to record with my band, endswell. We’re putting some finishing touches on a 3 song EP due out in February. Stay tuned for more info on that

In the meantime, help a dude out and pick up this tee or this tee or this tee.

I mean F-I-N-E FINE! Here’s a quick list of the top 9 reasons why 2009 kicked maximum ass.

1: The birth of my son, Liam. He’s a little miracle and I truly feel blessed to be his dad. I always thought having a kid would be a great experience but I never imagined it would this awesome.

2: My wife is the BEST. Her attitude was amazing throughout the pregnancy, she continues to laugh at my bad jokes and she’s been churning out some AMAZING baked goods. Just a few of the million reasons why I love her

3: Our younger pug, Olive, finally learned to sleep through the night. No joke – during Olive’s first two years, she’d incessantly rattle her crate between the hours of 3am-6am. It was insane. I think she sensed the upcoming arrival of our new addition and figured it was time to chill.

4: Operation lunchboxbrain took off like a rocket. I started designing under the lunchboxbrain moniker in 2006 and it’s safe to say that 2009 has been my most successful year to date. I had a bunch of tees printed at some top-notch sites and even picked up some commissioned freelance work. lunchboxbrain.com had more than 58,000 visitors in ’09! I hope to continue this full on assault of graphic goodness in 2010.

5: The Yankees won the World Series! They may have spent a boatload of cash, but at least they brought a championship home to the empire state. That’s more than I can say for my New York Giants.

6: This old house isn’t so old anymore. I’ve been to Home Depot so many times, I’ve got a personal parking spot. I built a nice, stone-fortified flower bed up front, chopped down a busted old pine tree, started and finished Liam’s nursery, had new windows and carpet installed and completed a slew of odd jobs. There’s still work to be done but our house finally feels like a home.

7: Endswell went electric. I know it’s not even close to when Bob Dylan plugged in but adding a drummer to the endswell line up was a big move. I really dug what we were doing with just two acoustic guitars but the songs just sound better as a rockin’ trio. Stay tuned in 2010 as we’re heading into the studio to record an EP and of course, more gigs.

8: Thanks to the powers of Facebook, I reconnected with some old friends. One can never have enough friends!

9: Beer makes every year awesome. I particularly enjoyed some of the microbrews from Brown’s Brewing in Troy, NY this year.

I’m going to be a daddy any day now. Woohoo! My wife is due November 29 but the docs say she could go into labor today, tomorrow or next week. Stay tuned for baby updates.

Greetings! Although the utter lack of activity on this blog would lead one to believe that I’ve fallen of the face of the Earth, rest assured that I’m alive and well.

Please stay tuned for awesome intarweb tranzmissions. In the meantime, check out the wearable magic that my good buddies are slanging over at Made With Awesome.

Cheers!