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Thanksgiving goodness
The report's a little late, but we had our first family gathering in our house for Thanksgiving, and it couldn't have been better. We had my Mom, her hubby, and my brother down here for a few days. North Carolina must have been out to impress them, because we had 73 degree temps and the fall foliage was exactly at peak. The turkey was nice and ( Read more... ) -
Car shopping
So we went to look at cars a few days back. At the VW dealer, we were pounced on by a salesman oozing what, in his somewhat inebriated state, he must have thought was southern charm. Whenever he addressed me, he would crouch down like he was talking to a 6-year-old, and kept telling me things like "Now, you aren't going to be interested in this ( Read more... ) -
Labor Day Weekend
Some good and bad stuff for our first, honest-to-goodness break since before we started planning our move ( Read more... ) -
Jop posting
While searching for jobs down here in Raleigh, Greg came across (so to speak) this interesting job (read the Job Description):
http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=302&dockey=xml/a/8/a89a64053e159cb28fb61378f1e59a87@endecaindex&source=19&FREE_TEXT=software+windows
Two questions: (1) How do you put something like that on a resume, ( Read more... ) -
Trinoc Con
I just went to my first Con after an eight year hiatus. Trinoc Con is a fairly smal, cozy SciFi/Fantasy literature based con, where I got to meet a bunch of nice folks and spend the day immersed in a culture I had almost forgotten about. I got to see readings by Elizabeth Hand, who read from a novella called Winter's Wife, and George RR Martin, ( Read more... )
