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Redbones BBQ

We went to Redbones for lunch today. They are acknowledged to produce the best BBQ ribs in Boston. I’ve heard about them for years. I’ve been there once and this morning I was jonsing for some pulled pork.

So I grabbed a couple of people and off we went. We were all salivating at the thought. We got there and they were CLOSED!!

The sign said they were having a staff lunch or something.

We crossed the street and went to an Irish pub that served authentic stew and guinness beer. it was an excellent lunch, I can tell you!

Now I just have to stay awake for the rest of the day.

ZZZzzzzzzZZZZzzzzz…

(there I am, right at the end of the table!)

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The weekend was fine. We wrapped up swimming lessons on Saturday morning. We also delivered this season’s xmas presents to the post office. I cleaned up the yard and added a couple of courses of cinder blocks to a (very) small retaining wall. Liz felt it was too short to keep the dogs in but adding a couple of courses of block brought it to about five or five-and-a-half feet tall. I vacuumed up the remaining leaves. We went to Home Depot and picked up their last five bags of mulch to protect the flower beds from the winter frost heaves.

I dropped off bottles, cans and paper at a recycling drive the school was having.

Liz has also been busy decorating the house for the season

We also visited Trader Joe’s and Wild Oats. I picked up lots of snacks for work – mostly different varieties of trail mix and dried fruit/nuts. Ben got to hang out with his buddy, Spencer and Gabriel had his friend Christopher over.

I watched the New England Patriots get the stuffing kicked out of them by Miami.

Ed Harding on the ABC morning news called it “A real Stinkah!”. I had to laugh because of the goofy Boston accent. I was at a meeting a while back and this one guy was explaining that we shouldn’t take the rantings of someone else too seriously because he’s “a talkah… a big talkah”.

It was a fine weekend (except for the football game; that left something to be desired)

I played this World of Warcraft online game for a while (so did the boys) and I tried out Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. And I decided that I need to improve my hardware before I continue. The video is smooth and everything, but in order to achieve that smooth action the game had to decrease the level of detail to an unacceptable level. So I think after xmas I will need to invest in a new graphics accelerator. However, I have to keep in mind that whatever card I get will, in all likelihood not work in the new computer. My current one has a dedicated AGP slot and all the new systems use a different kind of graphics card standard called PCI Express.

This week is all work. I have a big upgrade coming up Tuesday evening. It promises to be time consuming but shouldn’t cause me any trouble. It should be pretty hassle-free.

So all is well!

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Asperger syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I’m not proud of this. and its not PC. But I was just listening to the radio and they said something about how to treat “Ass-burger” syndrome and I burst out laughing so hard I almost fell out of my chair!

I had never heard of “Ass-burger” syndrome!!

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So this morning it was eighteen degrees when I left the house at 6:30am. No, the sun wasn’t even up yet. And I’m here to tell you that eighteen is pretty flippin’ cold! There was a little swirl of snow drifted against the curb and Liz said later that there had been lots of tiny flurries but not enough to accumulate.

The three kids will all stay after school for play practice. They will stay there until 4:30pm when Liz will pick them up. I guess this will be regular occurrence. It also means that Liz doesn’t have to go get anyone at all until 4:30pm.

I am still enjoying playing World of Warcraft and think I will sign up for several months of it. The kids will be thrilled because they like it too. I will probably play that for a couple of hours this evening while Liz watches some of her favorite shows.

I tried playing Elder Scrolls: Oblivion for about two minutes, but the graphics settings were so low it wasn’t all that nice. I think I will wait until I upgrade my graphics card to start playing.

Tomorrow morning is the kids’ final swimming lesson of 2006. The next one isn’t until 27 January 2007.

I also need to build up a small retaining wall that so it will actually prevent the dogs from jumping out of the yard. The wall is short – only about three feet tall, so as a temporary resolution I will put ugly cinder blocks on top.

The backyard needs to be cleaned up – the toys need to be put away and the bricks the kids have been playing with need to be neatly stacked. For the last several months we’ve had a door preventing the dogs from going to the front gate because Bucky was so little he could have squeezed through the gap. But I think he’s large enough now that we can put the door away without fear of him escaping.

I also need to get a Christmas tree. Maybe we’ll do that on Sunday. I would prefer to do it on Saturday, otherwise I am afraid it won’t get done.

There are some leaves out front that need to be cleaned up. I wonder if I should put down some mulch.

It was so cold this morning I was thinking I should try to set up a small ice skating rink again but I have too many things to do right now, I guess.

I know I have more things I am supposed to do, but I can’t remember them now. I know Saturday was looking like my productive day.

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Flatulence forces plane to land - Boston.com

December 6, 2006

NASHVILLE, Tenn. –An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said.

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YouTube - Top Ten Video Game Weapons

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SharkTank

this is funny.  Go read it.  basically some engineers avoided the IT department and put together their own method of report delivery that included MS Word macros and batch scirpts.

What really makes me laugh, though, is the method they use to strip out ASCII  codes.  Of all the different methods and tools that they could possibly have used, they relied on emailing a report to an AOL email address, which would then forward the email (w/o the codes) to the target user!

Funny.  Very funny.

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James Baker’s New Test In Diplomacy, Co-Chair Of Iraq Study Group Has Been A Political Operative And Statesman, Often To The 1st President Bush - CBS News

I’ve never liked James Baker. I even remember being a kid during the Reagan era and not liking him. He’s clearly a very clever man who can get a lot done. I can respect that, but I don’t like the sides he chooses and the people he supports (Reagan, Bush & Bush).

But from everything I hear he’s always been there for Dubya’s family and for Dubya particularly. He visits often and was one of the primary organizers of the effort to win th electoral debacle in Florida six years ago.

So now he has sat down with the Iraq Panel and produced a document that I think Bush believes criticizes him. CBS News got the real take from the White House, though. Look at what a whitehouse spokesman says about Baker now:

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But this president may not be in much of a hurry to accept Baker’s ideas about that — or much else. Asked if Baker would help implement the report, a spokesman for Mr. Bush said, “Jim Baker can go back to his day job.”

See? I think Bush put loyalty above everything else. And I think he will ignore everything in the Iraq Panel’s report because he feels it criticizes him personally. On the one hand he should absolutely feel personally responsible for what’s happened in Iraq, but on the other he needs to be a damn grownup for once and move beyond his pride and do something to fix what’s happened in Iraq.

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So the other day we were all in the car and we were talking about the kids when they were babies. This is a topic of which our children never tire. They LOVE to hear about what silly things they did or what crazy irresponsible ideas they had.

We were talking about names and that Benjamin’s name meant “Son of my father’s right hand”. We discussed the fact that “Chloe” means blooming and fertility. Naturally that led in to all manner of topics around fertility, but we quickly came back and touched on the meaning of Grace.

I think Gabriel had only been paying a little bit of attention. We tried to pull him in to the conversation by saying that the name Gabriel was also the name of a warrior angel who would rally the forces of good with his horn.

His eyes got really wide and he turned suddenly to his brother and said
“IN YOUR FACE!!
HAH!!
Sweet.”

I have to admit that somehow that was one of the funniest things I had ever heard. I burst out laughing. I wonder sometimes what goes through that boy’s head.

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Political Radar

President “Reluctantly Accepting” Bolton Decision

December 04, 2006 9:44 AM

ABC News’ Jessica Yellin and Jonathan Karl Report: UN Ambassador John Bolton will end his service in the Bush administration when his appointment ends at the end of the 109th Congress. Bolton will not be seeking another appointment.

A White House spokesman says, “It’s a decision that the President is reluctantly accepting.”

Bolton’s resignation is effective this weekend. Alex Wolff — currently Bolton’s deputy — will serve as acting Ambassador until a successor is named.

The President will meet with Bolton and his wife Gretchen later this afternoon.

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