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I did this a couple of years ago and got most of the stuff on the list…. well, mostly bought it myself years after the fact, but hey, here’s a snapshot of the materialistic side of me, Alan’s Christmas Wish List 2006! Second (or third) 20.1″ LG LCD monitor for the desk. I have one […]

So somehow last night we managed to get more than 50% of the 5 vehicles we had here stuck in the snow in one form or another. At one point we had a landrover at the top of the driveway pulling a red 4×4 stuck in the driveway while pulling a white truck that was

Wow, when it comes, it comes. Yesterday we started the day with a tiny smidge of snow outside, just a bit that was left. When told that Firefly’s mom had a couple of inches at their house I said “no way, that’s not possible!” Evening comes and it’s snowing more, a couple of inches on

Today I hit the big 3-1. Yikes. Not quite time to get myself a red sports car and go budgie jumping just yet though. Yesterday I celebrated my pre-birthday-day by helping Firefly and FireflyMom doing plumbing so we could have water in the house again. Around 11pm or so we finally turned the water main

Welp, Halloween came and went with nary a growl. Sounded like most of the kidlings showed up before I got home last night, and there were only 3 or 4 that showed up after I got back. None of them looked like they were as cute (or appropriate) as Sillz’s son, shown there dressed in

Long long ago, when I was…. maybe 12 or so, so around 1987, I really don’t remember, I created a time capsule. For some reason it popped into my head today that maybe it was time to open it. It’s a pretty lame time capsule if I remember right. I had a cookie tin or

Google recently released their code search engine, as you may or may not know. Just for fun, I googled myself. Most of the (few) entries were expected. A couple of mentions for bugs I posted, and some for minor contributions to a couple of projects. There are two I am a bit stumped on though…