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Quick hit
Christmas is effectively over (technically still have an hour left here in the Central time zone), and it was good. Got very good presents, the biggest of them being an awesome scanner (HP Scanjet 4890) from my parents. The coolest thing about it is that it can do up to 16 slides at a time, which is very important, because between my parents and ( Read more... ) -
Weekend wrap-up
So this weekend was the start of the Christmas party season. First up, the Guilde of St. George Holiday Party. However, before we get there, we'll start with our early afternoon.
Molly and I decided to visit OTB at Brookfield Mall where he is making a guest-appearance as Santa Claus. And we didn't just stop by and wave to him from outside the ( Read more... ) -
Yep, definitely a good idea to invade
Like the report itself, you'll probably be hearing and reading snippets from the Iraq Study Group report for the next week, until it gets buried and forgotten (I'll refrain from making metaphors to the innocent Iraqis and American soldiers killed), but I saw this and was astonished:
U.S. military and intelligence officials have systematically ( Read more... ) -
I must have been a good boy
Today is St. Nick's day, and for those that aren't familiar with it, I'll give you the bottom line: on the evening of December 5th, you put a shoe out, and St. Nick comes and puts present(s) in it. Well, someone must have put in a good word for me or something, because St. Nick brought me:
* Junior Mints
* Andes Mints (someone obviously told him ( Read more... ) -
Snow day
The weather and road conditions are so crappy, work decided not to open until 10:00 today. It's crappy enough around Oak Creek that I've decided to just take my last vacation day and not have to deal with the roads. Molly's library is closed today, so we're having a lazy day at home, probably pop a Christmas movie in, and enjoy a three-day ( Read more... ) -
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Okay, well, not so much. No snow on the ground, and mid-50's all Thanksgiving weekend long. Not typical end of November weather. However, one thing to put me into the holiday mood was that yesterday, per Molly's family tradition, the Christmas tree went up. And during the decorating, we popped in some classic Christmas movies. Ended up ( Read more... ) -
OCD please
Okay, so how OCD am I that I just spent probably 2+ hours the last two nights downloading album artwork for iTunes? And is it worse that I'm annoyed there are a few albums I don't have images of, and I'm debating about taking them into work so I can scan them? -
I mock because I can
I don't know whether to be envious that I did/do not have an opportunity to have things like this, or be disgusted by the extravagance and waste:
10 extravagant toys for spoiled rich kids
After looking at them again, I'm disgusted. I don't know, but I think, even as a kid, I could find a better use for $27,000 than a 6' 8" Batman constructed from ( Read more... )