The prodigal journaler returns

[xanthamarioff]

So, I'm still here. I still write entries at work, email them to myself, and then decide they're not worth posting.

The brief summary of the actual events of the past month and a half looks like this:

Catching a bad cold a few weeks before Christmas is not recommended. I was better in time to make ten thousand cookies (like the girl in

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[blockhouse]

How'd you like the hockey game? I've been hoping to find more people who would be interested in going with to a Caps game from time to time.

[xanthamarioff]

It was interesting, and I felt like I was on the verge of being able to follow the action after the first ten minutes or so, but I never actually reached that verge -- just hovered for the rest of the game. We have rabid hockey fans in my department at work, so I had been curious, but I'm still not enthusiastic enough about watching team sports to make any sort of effort to do so.

[fuzzyamy]

New flatware is awesome to have around. I like yours, I agree: simple is better if there's actually going to be food on it.

I am curious about the publicly nerdy thing.

[xanthamarioff]

It involved picking up software at midnight. (Adam preordered me a copy of the Warcraft expansion as a Christmas present.) There were six or seven females there total, including me, out of a group of seventy or so (?) people. (I'm bad at estimating headcounts, but we were very underrepresented