I just realized I'd not updated in over a month and a half ( Read more... )

I had been considering buying a newer laptop to replace the one I presently have (it's a Sony Vaio VGN-A150 I bought used on ebay about 3 years ago). The one I'd bought on ebay came in damaged, and after a lot of haranguing, it got sent back today. I should get my refund in about, what, 2 weeks? Meantime, I had the money and decided to go to ( Read more... )

My friend thatcrazycajun posted here about his concerns and feelings about the Christmas season which has inundated us with more sales and TV specials and the like celebrating one faith's holiday. He had asked how people were reacting to it. I've waited to post, and I'm thinking I may never be really ready to, but here goes ( Read more... )

I have to keep remembering that my sister's family likes to sleep a whole lot later than I do on days when they don't have to go to work or school. thatcrazycajun and I arrived at my sister's place for the engorging on a dead bird at 11AM, and found everyone fast asleep in bed, except my youngest nephew, who was fast asleep on couch ( Read more... )

I know it's been nearly 3 months since Hanukkah ended, but this one is true. At work, the two young attorneys asked me what I wanted for Hanukkah as part of gifting betwixt one another (I always find something for those with whom I work at the Yellow Daisy Festival, so that shopping was done the weekend after Labor Day). I told them I'd like the ( Read more... )

At this time of the year, I buy for my nephews, my niece, the sister who lives out here, her husband, but I don't buy anything for me. Like my sister out here, I'm impossible to buy for. Well, after giving the following ( Read more... )

With the holiday over at sundown tonight, with me going up to my sister's for the day, and with me having lit the last candles last night, before I went to bed I put the Hanukkah decorations away. It took less than 2 minutes. I unplugged the electric hanukiyah, wrapped the cord around the base, put it in its box and put it back in the closet. ( Read more... )

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in honor of Mary Travers, z"l:

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Happy Hanukkah to those amongst you who celebrate like me. May you get your gatke of latkes, may your dreidl always fall on "gimel," and may the holiday be fun and good one.