Hanging out at a friend’s house, connecting wirelessly. We moved a bunch of stuff out of the Fiancee’s condo and into the house, and a bunch of stuff out of the house and into my friend’s house.
BTW, the wine is working fine.
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Those of you out there with a compatable browser and Sherlock Holmes’ eye for detail will have noticed a tiny addition to the location bar for this site. One of the great little perks about my job is that sometimes I get paid to experiment with really cool things.
And speaking of perks, the carboy full of pumpkin wine is perking away quite nicely!
Yeah, I know that’s kind of an awkward transition, but I’ve got two totally unrelated things to talk about and I wanted to use the same title for the blog entry.
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I was late to work this morning for a couple of reasons. For one thing, parking around here is always a challenge. There’s one lot that I used to use all the time that was hardly ever full, but I think it’s been discovered. It seems to fill up around ten minutes to eight, so if I’m even a little late that’s out.
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So we’ve been working on our wedding registry… It’s tough. We’re both old enough that we’ve got a lot of the standard kitchenware and appliance things that you’re supposed to ask for. We’re also notoriously difficult to shop for on ordinary gift-giving occasions like birthdays and Christmas.
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One of the problems with having a very strange brain is that sometimes little scenes will spring into my imagination fully formed, like Athena from Zeus’ brow. Generally they are surreal and impossible to put into any context. Eventually, I may collect enough of them to sew into some kind of screenplay for a movie that nobody would watch.
In the meantime I’ll post the outlines of some scenes here. Watch for them in a theatre (or theater) near you!
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This is the last of the houseplant pictures from Up North.
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A while ago I wrote about the lucky pumpkins that escape destruction on Halloween and become pumpkin wine. Since then I’ve had some people ask for more details about it. My sister came over and we got started on another batch of it on Sunday, so it seems like a good opportunity to write about it.
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There’s something wrong with my ISP’s modem pool. Often, it’ll take multiple attempts to get a working connection. The worst part is when one of their modems picks up and the computer sits there trying to negotiate a connection for ever.
That’s part of the reason that this post is going up at 1 in the morning…
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Quick warning here, Victoria’s Secret is giving away a free CD of new age music. It’s probably not something you want to listen to while driving.
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There’s an old computer game that I remember from back in the days of the Mac Plus, when an entire operating system could fit on a floppy disc and having more than a megabyte of RAM was a luxury. It was called Moria, and it was very loosely based on the ancient Dwarvish mines in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The object of the game was to work your way down through the mines and become powerful enough to finally eliminate the Balrog.
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