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We ventured out to a tree farm- having grown up in Vegas this was a new thing to me- and cut down a huge noble.  They put the tree on this wacky Super Tree Spinner and shook off anything dead or living and we tossed the car into a friend's truck and that was that.  I do believe I will do that again next year.


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Goodbye tall tree.

Some of my favorite memories of being in Chicago (suburb) when I was little included hanging out with my uncle and watching him play Atari.  You might think sitting around watching someone move a giant dot on the screen is not very exciting, but my uncle had a great way of making the game seem so very more involved than it really was, and having ( Read more... )

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I don't do a lot of complaining here, but I must speak up that this goes down as the worst month of 2007.

When I wasn't battling the two week cold, I was tending to a seriously screwed up nerve in my neck...which got better just in time for me to fall down some stairs!

I've also become disillusioned with a lot of people lately.  And I've lost my ( Read more... )

I always take the weekend before Turkey Day as a time to be as lazy as possible before the rush of the holidays.  With a shoulder that was killing me, and the end of The Plague I could not seem to kick, the tradition was unavoidable.  I spent many hours between sleep looking into all things Cloverfield, and planned and prepared for the coming weeks ( Read more... )

Lions for Lambs.  Rent it.
Dracula?  Cute, but not the end-all-be-all of high school productions of Dracula.  That was my attrition to Ms. Porray and that is all she gets.
Wordstock: Bring Scott back.  When I walk by speakers talking to ten people on main stages, there is a problem.  The whole thing just lacked flow & energy.

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