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Well, there’s nothing special going on right now. We’ve finished up the christmas holidays and everything went well. My folks came and visited for almost a full week adn we all had a good time. Mom wanted a tour of my office. Initially I told her that there was nothing special about it and it was just an office. But she wouldn’t be put off so I drove all our guests in to Boston and did a driving tour around town. Then we went to Cambridge and toured my new office and MIT and Harvard. It was fun.

So we had a good a time. I have a few more days left of my vacation before work calls me back on Tuesday.

Ben and Chloe each had a friend over today which made for quite a busy house.

So all is well.

More later.

Peace out.

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Katie Couric Lashes Out at ‘Vultures’ | Katie Couric : People.com

Couric points out that Esquire itself criticized her after her Sept. 5 debut. “You guys even take a shot at me,” she tells the magazine. “You have something in the November issue, something about how since I’ve become an anchor, you don’t know me anymore. You don’t know me anymore? Bite me.”

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Floridian: Humiliation lies an errant e-mail away

A newspaper editor writes about emails that have gone astray.

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Smile Face Water Towers. Roadside America

Who knew there were so many smiley-faces on water towers around america?!

Not me.

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Have you been working with Unix for a while? if you know what this guy is rapping about I think you can consider yourself hardcore:

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We all have different jobs, don’t we?

the little woman just sent me this email:

Hi, Woobs! Ben has written a two-page story for school, and must turn it in typed. Would you teach him how to use whatever word processing software you have on the computers? He will need to edit it, spell-check it, etc. This is your big opportunity to be Mr. Smart Guy. MY big opportunities usually involve biology and sex ed, so consider yourself lucky!

All in all, I think I’m making out like a bandit!

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War Room - Salon.com

With his ill-advised war in Iraq, George W. Bush has now created a situation in which one of his closest allies in the Middle East may decide to side with al-Qaida in Iraq — even though al-Qaida would like to see its government overthrown.

No exaggeration here. Apparently the Saudis have been hesitant to support the Sunni insurgency in Iraq because it was led by Al Qaeda, who also wants to see the Saudi monarchy go down in flames. But if the USA pulls out of Iraq the Saudis would side with Al Qaeda in Iraq.

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Festivus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll?
Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born … a Festivus for the rest of us!
Cosmo Kramer: That must’ve been some kind of doll.
Frank Costanza: She was.

The extent of my christmas decorations at work is very limited. I have a poinsettia that I buy and kill every year.

But I think in recognition of other faiths, this year I will also put up an aluminim pole as a nod to Festivus.

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Very short entry today. Last night I was up until 3am doing a system upgrade at work. Well, I was at home, but signed in to work. I still managed to drag my ass out of bed at 6:30am to feed the dogs and get to work by 7:30am. I was concerned that if something went wrong with the upgrade that I needed to be available. Plus there was a ton of paperwork to finish off the upgrade.

A class on “Ethics and Stewardship” snuck up on me and I couldn’t get out of it so I spent from 9am to 11:30am on that. My paperwork was all done but I needed to get it all signed off before heading home. Sadly that stinkin’ class has put me behind schedule and everyone had already gone off to lunch which meant I had to sit around waiting for these people to return.

I got some other work done and in about an hour I was all finished.

Now I’m done and sleepy. I think I need a nap.

I just heard from the front desk that my latest purchase had arrived. Want to hear something kind of sappy? Every Christmas we rent “Love Actually” because it’s a romantic sappy movie and we like it. So I bought it for $9 at Amazon.com

I’ll bring it home and get some points from the little woman. I would normally wrap it and hold off until 12/25 but this is the sort of thing that helps put people in the right seasonal spirit, you know? So we’ll watch it tonight or some evening soon.

That’s it.

‘night-night.

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Freighter Cruise and Travel Club Int’l (Since 1958)

I guess cruises have always been popular. I have never really been able to see the attraction even though everyone I’ve talked to about going on a cruise has raved about them. Maybe someday we’ll go.

I suspect we’ll probaby go on one of the well-established lines (Carnival, Norwegian or something like that). But there’s also freighters. You can still book passage on a freighter and spend weeks crossing the pacific ocean to china for on a nanjin or hanjin freighter. There are also specialty cruises that putter around europe, africa and the north atlantic.

I can’t see taking the whole family on this sort of trip, but wow, if I ever wanted to get away solo for a few months, I would very seriously consider hopping a freighter.

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