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Dear Yuletide Author
I will hopefully be asleep in about 5 minutes and tomorrow will be a rush of family obligations, possibly followed by Sherlock Holmes, so I probably won't get to read your wonderful gift until Saturday. I'll love it all the more because of the delay! -
Thanksgiving Pies: Done!
I just finished baking for tomorrow: pumpkin (actually butternut squash), pecan (actually walnut and pinenut), and double-crust apple. I'll also assemble the banoffee pie in the morning, but the filling is made, so that's just a matter of pouring everything together. Wow - I can't believe how early I finished :) The house smells glorious -
Linkage
I'm swamped, so someday there will be a post about the tip and moving and the new job and so on, but for the moment, just go watch this clip of a flash mob of 200 coming out of the crowd, dancing to the Sound of Music in a Belgian train station. -
Eeeeeeek - E-mail cloning?
My e-mail was just flooded with a ton of delivery failure notices from spam supposedly sent from my account. None of it is listed in my sent mail, so I don't think anyone's hacked my account. Does anyone know what is going on? And more importantly what I can do to stop it? -
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I found this interview with Maya Angelou about Obama's election particularly poignant. She is amazingly impressive to watch, and she has a knack for putting her finger directly on the emotional heart of the matter - the place that both hurts and rejoices. -
RNC Arrest Update
After filing a formal complaint letter last week, we just received a letter in the mail from the county attorney which states that they have "declined prosecution" of my brother's charges, without admitting any wrongdoing on their behalf, and maintaining that my brother did violate the law. Over a month after the incident, this is the first formal ( Read more... ) -
Update
My brother was released at 3:30am yesterday. He was home by 4am and in a haze of exhaustion I hugged him like he had returned from the dead. He woke up again at 7am to go to the first day of his senior year, because he didn't want to miss it ( Read more... )