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Archive for December, 2006

Pastimes with Good Company

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

YouTube - Reno 911 [4x05] Reno Renaissance Faire
Glad to have this clip pointed out to me; I recollect seeing this one tv some time ago and really enjoyed it.
Another from YouTube, even has a Predicta in it: PMS Survival Tips.

Boy Howdy!

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

God, I miss Creem.
Sitting here at some ghastly early morning hour listening to an infomercial for a collection of sixties music while reading random Wikipedia pages.
I don’t know why the people who have known me the longest tease me about it. I started reading the children’s encyclopedias for fun as soon as I [...]

Totally. Hate. Shopping.

Monday, December 18th, 2006

So, I’m walking around in the local Kame Apart, intent on picking up a prescription. The store is overwhelmingly crowded with screaming women and aggressive brats and a whole host of other people driven to the lowest common denominator by the mad consumerism of the season.
Every time some woman screams at one of her [...]

Objects don’t work in the room.

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Finally have a tree up this year, largest tree we’ve had in years. Silly expensive; there is a part of me that can not wait to get to the 5 ache holding in Viroqua, start buying trees with root systems for Yule, planting them after the season passes.
But then I think about leaving the [...]

Boar’s Head AS41/2006

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Good: Saw Thorvald, Ghita & children, Suiliann. Spent lots of time with Margaret! Taught a class. Had lots of laughs during court. Grimmund elevated to Pelican, YAY! and ..oh, what name is she using now? I still think of her as Tarja… Tarja put on vigil for Pelican. I was happy with the way the [...]

Acephalous: Measuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else…

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Acephalous: Measuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else…
Are you an online diarist/blogger reading this online open diary (I don’t really get enough interaction here to really call it a blog, and I’m golden with that)? Have you not yet seen the post linked above (I’ve been too busy [...]

Snow is glistening.

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Guess who worked from home because she couldn’t get out today?