Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.
A quick “Happy Merry Xmas” shout out to all my readers. A few Xmas traditions from our household that go into our annual celebrations: pizza dinner on Xmas Eve the misadventures of Clark W. Griswold, Jr. Bush Tree! scratch lottery tickets What are yours?
Winter comes, time passes. You miss some opportunities, you stumble on to some others. (Original on Flickr.)
F_D was hit pretty hard since Sunday by a major outage in the Spacey cluster in the Dreamhost network. In a nutshell: shit was down for days. Where do we stand? As of this evening, and after lots of unacceptably bad best case scenarios described, the damage is relatively minimal. Mail has been back solidly […]
New MacBook Pro via work. Yay! The out-of-the-box color calibration on the LED display seems not quite right though. Too cool. I’d say it has a blueish tinge but that’s not it. I’ve tried re-calibrating but can’t quite seem to get it right. (Meanwhile, the outboard display at the office is fine 1.) In a freak accident, […]
Built at The Muppet Whatnot Workshop (via DF).
Incredible. As Americans, we made history yesterday. We came out to the polls in huge 1 numbers to decisively elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. It seems that everyone I know or have spoken with is a-buzz with this news. As I write this, President-Elect Obama has 349 […]
Well, the 2008 garden has been put to bed! We hadn’t done much with it in about a month or so. Tough to say how much we got out of the garden this year. I’m tempted to say that we bit off more than we could chew this year; A. & I over-estimated how much […]
Although I will argue that my judgment was impaired, A. talked me into creating a Facebook profile two nights ago. I don’t really remember the circumstances or her rationale. But she made an impassioned plea that on some level resonated with me, for better or worse. So there I am. Time will tell if this […]
Wrapping up Q3 of ’08 1… The results are in for my personal goals for 2008: See also: Q1 and Q2 results.[
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