Sad news this morning from the Birds. Cliff Bird, one of the oldest friends of the Lippert family, passed away peacefully yesterday morning after a short illness.

Cliff and his wife Audrey were lifelong friends of my paternal grandmother, and their four sons John, Larry, James and Don have been lifelong friends of first my parents and then me. John ( Read more... )

Quite the weekend, holy goodness ( Read more... )

I believe we may have just found the next Wayward Girl of Question House! Our friend Barry has a friend named Karynne Williams who is looking for a place to stay immediately. She's down-to-earth, quiet but friendly and fun, loves to cook, doesn't have a lot of stuff, and is looking for a safe place to land. I think she'd fit in well here.

Of course ( Read more... )

Chris and Gretta were kind enough to invite me and Jon over for a game of Scrabble last night and oh my goodness, I have never had such good letters in one game before.  I went first, my opening rack was AEFNTT? which makes the obvious opening bingo FATTENS (FLATTEN also works ( Read more... )

Jorge says: Hey Eric! Long time no chat!
Eric Lippert says: Hey Jorge, what's up?
Jorge says: Nothing much. How are you doing?
Eric Lippert says: I'm doing great. Work is going well. Leah is off boarding at Whistler and my housemate moved out, so I'm bacheloring it for a few days.
Jorge says:Nice.
Eric Lippert says: Where by "bacheloring it" I mean ( Read more... )

After three years of living at Eric's Home For Wayward Girls, our dear friend Christine has found an apartment of her own. I miss her terribly already, but I'm happy for her and look forward to seeing her at her new place. (And at our place -- drop by around meal times, C!) She moved out on Saturday.

I bought Question House in the fall of 1997 and ( Read more... )

Hey there fabulous people,

I will be at the University of Waterloo, recruiting for the C# team, on Monday, February 5th, 7:00-9:00 PM , Davis Centre room 1301 (the fishbowl).  I'll be arriving the night before and staying at my father's place in Kitchener. I'll have a car.

If any of my Waterloo friends reading this are free for lunch or an early ( Read more... )

My friend Cheryl passes on some wise words about true friendship.

I often tell my friends that a true friend is someone you can call up at three in the morning and say "I'm in Snohomish County and I can't find my pants!" and that friend brings you pants, no questions asked, all the way to Snohomish County.

People always seem to think that there is ( Read more... )

If anyone out there reading this is really, REALLY interested in what I think about all day, and you have a half an hour to waste, check out this silly video.

When my friends go out for pedicures and girl talk, they come over to my place afterwards and share the love.


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