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Had a lovely weekend.
Gorgeous day yesterday, perfect for taking care of some last-minute errands and running down to West Point Market with Karla to pick up groceries for Liz’s birthday dinner.
Did some errands with Liz today (frame shop, Radio Shack, etc.), enjoyed helping set up her Tivoli iPod radio gizmo, played some Wii (the Rayman: […]

Had a nice visit with my parents this week; their arrival was delayed from Friday until Sunday thanks to the weather in Denver, which allowed us a couple of extra days to get things in order. They’re back in Mountain Time now, driving from Phoenix to Durango. Highlights include:

A couple of excellent feasts […]

Wii are online!
(My wife rocks.)

Mood:geeky

Bizarre dream this morning… The Galactica crew arrived at Earth to discover that the cast of Heroes are a Cylon genetic experiment based on the DNA of Jack Bauer, who presently has 24 hours to remodel a home in time for Christmas.

It’s bad when I have multiple people tell me I haven’t posted in a while. If you haven’t guessed, things are a bit busy right now. For us in the wine biz, from the week before Thanksgiving to the end of the year is crunch time. Between parties, gifts, etc. it has […]

Not that most of you will care, but… I moved all of my LiveJournal-to-pirnat.com RSS-fu off of my home Linux box and got it all wired up on my Webfaction account, plus I spiffed it up a bit to take advantage of feedparser’s support for etags and Last-Modified headers and generally be less wasteful. […]

An ornament (the mate to another stolen but recovered earlier in the day) has disappeared from our Christmas tree; I suspect feline involvement. Time to round up the usual suspects…

Mood:suspicious

Good: Got first big chunk of big project delivered on time and more or less working as desired. Business folks are generally happy with what our team produced in the limited time available.
Bad: Had to miss the holiday party at German class in order to get there, so no Sekt and no […]

In spite of the fact that my car has decided that it wants a new tire for Christmas, things are looking up. Why’s that? Last month, a Starbucks opened inside AG’s corporate HQ, to the general delight of the caffeine junkies. I don’t do the caf, though, so I was unimpressed… until […]

The other day, I uploaded photos from Mendocino (the next chunk of my backlogged California vacation photos from October) to my Flickr set, but was too busy to post any here…
Playing fetch
Birds in flight at the End of the World
At the End of the World
Driving from Mendocino to Albion
Snubbed by a llama

Music:Vangelis - “Reve”