I spent TWO HOURS snipping dates and candied fruits today. Fruitcake cookies are awesome, but I am in a bit of pain right now.


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Once many years ago, my family went to visit a great-aunt who wanted to give my mother some family mementos: photos and postcards and things. We spent a lovely afternoon with her as she told us about the people in the pictures, and the background behind them, and various things that she recalled. I especially remember how beautiful her garden was ( Read more... )

So, uh, I've been absorbed by other things. My apologies. For a while, I was prettying up ID3 tags. Then I got a horrible cold that lasted almost three weeks (exacerbated by the football game I attended). And for the last week-ish, I've been consumed by preparations for Thanksgiving, which for some reason I thought wasn't at our house this year ( Read more... )

This is like the Mike Leech situation all over again: disinformation and hysterical opining everywhere. How many people think that Leech locked poor Adam James in a shed? How many people are under the impression that it was Joe Paterno that was raping children?

I am finding myself in agreement with Rick Reilly, Matt Millen, and TMZ's Harvey ( Read more... )

Step One: iTunes announces that it has an update. Accept update ( Read more... )

Last time on Your Spartans 2010: MSU had just had their much-needed bye week (which was not recapped). It came after compiling a 9-1 record for the first time since "mod" was a new word. The final sentence I wrote in my last post (warning: foreshadowing): I was extremely confident that MSU would do to Purdue in two weeks what it had just done to ( Read more... )

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I have got to get better at this "daily posting" thing.


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