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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. […]

I grew up watching “Dr. Who” on the PBS station out of Albuquerque, usually late at night, and in my earliest experiences, with my hands over my eyes to protect me from those damned terrifying Daleks. My inner four-year-old can still hear the cries of “EXTERMINATE!” echo in the darkness of my childhood bedroom. […]

Were you a budding computer geek in the mid 1980’s? Deadly Hippos has an interview with Philip Bouchard, one of the designers of the immortal Apple II game Oregon Trail. Good stuff that really brings back memories… If you get similarly overcome with nostalgia, you can bust out the emulator and play […]

Monday, 7/25:
Up early to go rafting on the Animas (full name: Rio de las Animas Perdidas; translation: River of Lost Souls). Great trip, lots of fun. Water was about 40-45 degrees F, so definitely an eye-opener. Mostly calm trip, but some great fun rapids around the foot of Smelter Mountain, with much […]

Saturday, 7/23:
Slept in a bit. Finished the Frank Herbert biography. Started Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Drove out to Holly’s place in the afternoon for the reunion BBQ; got a good bit of rain and lightning on the way out that threatened to make the event strictly indoors, but it cleared […]

Friday, 7/22:
Slept late. Lunch at Gazpacho’s. Drove Liz around town a bit. Got cleaned up and attended the reunion dinner at Bistro 701. Had a bit of a mind-bending time (being suddenly around a crowd of people I hadn’t seen for ten years was just plain weird), but good nonetheless. […]