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Christmas Has Started

Just got back from town doing some looking around at various things, the biggest being a new cordless phone. Even with a full nights charge our current one lasts about 30 seconds before it starts it’s low battery beeping, so we went to look for a new phone. Could have gotten a new battery, but […]

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Drink Water

Just got back from getting some (ironically enough) water in the break room upstairs and saw that they have a 274 page book on drinking water for sale (along some other interesting looking ones, including this one by the Dalai Lama. Almost three hundred pages to tell you all about how water is good for

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Best Laid Plans…

So much for my idea of getting to bed at a decent hour last night. I was up till about 1am online with W ($boss of the ASP stuff I work on) and Dana doing some testing on a webpage. There were only 4-5 people (the fifth had some serious issues with her Telus connection)

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The Two Towers Rocks

Went out last night to Yohimbe and WebDiva’s place for dinner and to see the new extended edition of The Two Towers. Oh wow, what a great movie. I agree with $newboss that it’s 100x better than the theatrical release. The little bits added here and there (I think something like 40 minutes of new

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Lest We Forget

In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now

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Photo Swap Meet

One of the things I did this weekend was to go to a Photography swap meet by Lougheed Mall with dad. It was pretty neat, hundreds of people and probably 50 tables with photo stuff. Everything from ancient (and horribly expensive) Leica‘s to relatively new Pentax MZ-5 and MZ-6. Along with that were the microscopes,

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Coming Home Checklist

Firefly is on a plane to come home, and I’m heading out in about 10 minutes to pick her up. Is everything done that should be done? Laundry laundered? Yup. Laundry slept on by cats? Yup. Dishes washed and put away? Yup. Litterbox cleaned? Yup. Floor swept and cleaned? Yup. Garbage taken out? Yup. Bills

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