As the title says, this was my first Thanksgiving without Colleen. Not the first time we were separated for Thanksgiving -- there have ( Read more... )

I'm not too good at rating things, but I think it's safe for me to say that this past year was even worse than the previous one, which I called pretty awful last Thanksgiving.
Looking back,...
ls ../2020/12/*thankf* ../2021/*/*thankf* | wc -l 45
... so I missed seven weeks, which is pretty poor compared to three last year ( Read more... )

Here we are at American!Thanksgiving again. The last 12 months have been pretty awful, but this isn't the day for looking back on the bad things (though some might be mentioned in passing). Just to review,
$ ls ../2019/12/*thankf* ../2020/*/*thankf* | wc -l => 49 # gratitude posts in the last 12 months, so 3 weeks missed...
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My mother was an excellent cook. I have no idea where she found her recipe for cranberry relish, but today is the day to make it if you wanted it to be at its best on Thanksgiving. So I did. It's trivial.
Ingredients: one apple, one orange, one pound of cranberries. Cut the ( Read more... )

So I took the week off from work. I'd originally planned to return from ( Read more... )

It's time for another year's worth of gratitude. On the whole, 2016 has not been a great year -- about the best I can say is that I -- and my family -- lived through it. OK, here we go: This year I'm grateful for...

• My family. All of it -- family of blood, family of choice, Colleen ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving seems like a good day to re-start Thankful Thursday posts; I have a lot of catching up to do, so here goes...

Today I'm thankful for:

• FAMILY. Blood and chosen, near and far. I have an ( Read more... )

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Well, we made it down to Loscon. The flower_cat and I ended up not eating turkey -- the claim is that it's high enough in tryptophan to make you sleepy. She had the prime rib dinner, and I had roast leg of lamb. Both were excellent. The kids split a plate of fettuccini Alfredo, which left super_star_girl enough room for pumpkin pie for desert.

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So, here we are at the LAX Marriot, waiting for Loscon to start tomorrow ( Read more... )