One of our friends has already begun planning his Halloween party. Obviously, it’s not even October yet, but I guess it never hurts to be prepared. So we’ve been doing some pre-Halloween costume contemplation at the House of Q.
This is what we’ve come up with:
And just in case you want one of your very own, I’ve got it set up on CafePress. Click on the shirt to go to the store, or follow this link if you can’t see the PNG file…
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Today is the retirement symposium for a doc that we’ve done a lot of work for. It’s also, for those of you who’ve somehow missed it, Talk Like A Pirate Day.
I somehow doubt those two things will combine in an interesting fashion, but I can always hope. Especially since several of the educational lectures are being videotaped.
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AKA “Why Proofreaders Will Never Be Obsolete”
American Boar of Dermatology.
Deportment of Surgery.
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So we’ve got a new fermenter full of cranberry wine doing the whole primary fermentation thing. Hopefully it’ll turn out as good as the last batch…
Sunday evening I started the whole washing/sorting/crushing routine, using the big winepress to flatten the cranberries, half a bag at a time.
This was an incredibly slow process.
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Oh sure, lots of people will say that electricity is the flow of a current through a conductive medium, but it’s all just a hoax. Ask someone who really knows what’s going on and they’ll tell you about the magic smoke.
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I feel like I should resurrect the Institute of Advanced Mad Science.
A couple years ago, I’d frivolously fill that in on any e-mail subscription form or on-line survey that had a blank for “Business”. A friend of mine did a similar thing, listing “Interstellar Freight” as a company. I don’t know if he’s still doing so.
Then I started to get stuff in the mail, addressed to the Institute…
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