Tag: holidays

  1. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

    27 November 2008

    Now that it's Thanksgiving Day and there's nothing to do until the turkey has finished roasting in the oven, I've got a chance to write about everything that's happened in the past couple of days.

    Aside from adding a thirteenth bookcase to the apartment (which actually contains the bulk of our DVD collection) last Saturday brought with it an afternoon with the Mad Scientist Coffee Klatsch while Lyssa stayed home to relax. I spent the afternoon with Hasufin, Mika, and Jason trading doomsday scenarios that ran the gamut of elegance, subtlty, and destructive potential, an activity which I'm surprised didn't …

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  2. Let's try this again from the top.

    01 January 2008

    Second try: I tried to post from Laurelinde's place but her wireless access point bounced me halfway through the process, so it never made it through.

    Happy New Year and welcome to the year 2008 of the common era!

    Laurelinde and Lyssa, both off yesterday, spent much of the day getting ready for the shindig at Laurelinde's place last night while I was at work. Unfortunately, I didn't get back to the apartment until nearly 1900 EST5EDT due to a last minute project that I had to see through to the end. I actually left the office around 1800 EST5EDT …

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  3. You know, I could really go for some candy right about now...

    31 October 2007

    Yep, once again it's October 31st, and Halloween, Samhain, whatever you choose to call it is here for a few scant hours.

    No costume parties for me this year, I'm afraid - nowhere to go and no time to do anything. I can't honestly say that this sits well with me, but I guess that's a sign of getting older: You do what you need to do however you can. Oh, well. just like undergrad.

    With that cheerful sentiment, I think I'll leave you with links to some of my favourite reading and listening these days. First on the list is …

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  4. Back from Pennsylvania and playing with my toys.

    05 February 2007

    The down-low on Hussein's execution.

    My new USB audio recorder rocks all known sheep. I'm currently recording the third tape of.. who knows.. and the damage done to the tapes from listening to them so much over the years aside, the recordings are very clear and clean.

    Well, there are slightly more than twenty-four hours left in the year 2006 of the common era, and I am still figuring out what in the hell happened to my vacation. No, seriously. I'm not complaining about not getting a vacation or anything like that, I'm really wondering what happened to it. At …

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  5. 65 degrees in January??

    29 January 2007

    It is now officially the middle of January - so why is it 65 degrees Farenheit and why are there people walking around in shorts and t-shirts? No, seriously, what gives? I'm sitting here in khakis and a polo shirt in downtown DC (wishing that I was working from home because it is, apparently, a holiday and as such 90% of the city has the day off) in a building that's so empty that most of the hallway and office lights weren't even turned on to conserve power. It's a little creepy, actually.

    Friday night I wound up staying up late …

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