Archive for December, 2003

Christmas tips

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003

Santa is available at the mall near my house for photo sessions. When I called earlier this afternoon the wait was around 90 minutes. The other mall I called said the line was all the way down the mall. I would rather stick a fork in my eye than stand in a [...]

O’Henry never wrote “The Gift of the Dumbass”

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003

The other day hub started talking to me about Bluetooth headsets and which one I thought he should get for his cellular phone. It’s a bit of a moot point right now, since the number port request that he put in on November 25th still hasn’t gone through. Anyway, he said he did [...]

Finger

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

My finger, which was bending pretty much ok when I went to see the doctor about it, is now pretty much immobile. Is it because it’s been splinted for a week? Am I ever going to be able to make a fist again? How am I going to flip people off with [...]

Naive

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

Am I really so naive because I want my adult Christmases to have the same magic that my childhood ones had? Am I the only person in the world who doesn’t want to get bitchy during the holidays? Is there something wrong with liking It’s a Wonderful Life? Am I weak because [...]

Motivation, redux

Thursday, December 11th, 2003

Maybe it’s because it’s the time of the year when it’s dark and chilly and doing things takes a disproportionate amount of effort. Maybe it’s that I’ve got so much to do and so little time to do it. We have no tree up yet. I haven’t bought even one present. [...]

Testing

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

Testing out to make sure everything moved to my new server.
I broke my finger. On the dog. Yeah, I feel pretty much like a dogbeater, but I was just trying to keep him from 1) lunging at the door when I tried to open it and 2) wake up the baby [...]