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As the Christmas Day festivities wound down and we settled into a quiet afternoon together, Liz asked me a question:
“Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?”
My thoughts flickered quickly across the warm and happy morning spent with my beautiful wife and daughter, singing songs, opening presents, cooking breakfast together, playing with the cats. […]

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Julia has a stupid new trick way to eat (see photo).
On the weather front, it took me about two hours to get home last night; I had two-inch thick chunks of ice that developed on my wiper blades, which made the last half hour […]

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.

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 […]

Just received the official notice that my PyCon presentation proposal was accepted! I plan on basking in the warm glow of non-rejection for a couple of days, and then commencing forthwith with the stressing out about getting it pulled together in time given all the other insanity of my life.
In other news, Liz and […]

It’s been a busy, busy week: one symphony, two wine dinners, the year’s massive traffic spike (thank you, Valentine’s Day), two celebratory drinking adventures with co-workers, and I survived a two-hour meeting with our CEO and the SVP that I fall under. Whew!
I got high praise from multiple levels of the chain of […]