So, it’s New Year’s Eve. Unlike most of the world, I’m unable to get excited about the turning of the calendar. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Arbor Day — now those are holidays with something behind them. New Year’s is just an arbitrary date on the the calendar, about as special as your car’s odometer [...]
Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
Can one be a New Year’s Grinch?
Posted in Holidays, tagged New Year's Eve, reflections on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas loot
Posted in Books, Holidays, Miscellany, Movies, Television, science fiction, tagged Books, Christmas, dvds, History, Jackson, Lincoln, Stargate SG-1, World War II on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have to give in to my Inner Little Kid for a moment and share what I got for Christmas. This is some neat stuff:
Books
Doris Kearns-Goodwin’s A Team of Rivals. Abe Lincoln is a deeply-felt hero to me, so I’m looking forward to reading this.
Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle. Part two of his Liberation [...]
Silent night
Posted in Holidays, tagged Christmas, Holidays on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night.
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Turkeys
Posted in Apartment life, Holidays, Music, tagged jerks, Music, neighbors, Thanksgiving on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My downstairs neighbors have decided that the right way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to play rap music with the base cranked up to floor*-shaking levels.
Food poisoning would be too good for them.
*(My floor, that is.)
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There and back again
Posted in Holidays, RPGs on August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m back. Did you miss me? I had a lovely time in Indianapolis, attending the GenCon game convention in Indianapolis. Never got to the zoo as I had hoped: I may have to go a day earlier next year.
And, yes, there will be a next year, barring unforeseen good or bad fortune. I even got [...]
Blog holiday
Posted in Holidays, Miscellany, tagged baseball, game conventions, GenCon, travel, Zoos on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m off on vacation until a week from tomorrow, Tuesday, enjoying the wonders of mysterious and exotic Indianapolis while attending the GenCon game fair. Yes, your host is 50 years old and still a geek at heart!
My ancient laptop doesn’t have wireless, so there will almost certainly be no blogging until I get back. [...]
Sleepy
Posted in Aquariums, Holidays, Miscellany on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And so, another holiday weekend comes to a close, and I face the prospect of going to work in a few hours. Weeee! I wonder what it’s like for people who actually enjoy their day jobs?
Not much happened this weekend, other than picking up some panda cories for my 10g aquarium. They’re cute little guys, [...]
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