Last weekend, I helped my parents clean up around their place.  It helped keep my mind off the holiday and kept me busy.  They had a dead tree that had fallen in their side yard that needed taken care of, and knowing that it was covered in poison oak, I wore long pants and gloves to drag it to their burn pile piece by piece.  Despite being very careful, I somehow managed to get a pretty good rash from it.  The first red splotches didn’t appear until Wednesday but by Thursday, I looked pretty bad and started itching like crazy.

On a different note, I got the final proof of the new poster from Rob Brown.  Let me know what you think of it: