So, on Saturday, we took our friend Akiva Fox out to lunch, partially to say thank you to him for getting us the tickets, to the Marlowe plays, partially because Mom gave us money to take Akiva out to lunch, and mainly because we wanted to see him ( Read more... )

I am thankful that, for all the weirdnesses and problems North America has had over its history, we still managed to develop a holiday dedicated to eating a meal with family (chosen and/or biological) and reflecting on reasons to feel gratitude.

I can lead off by mentioning Lis. Every day I see her and wonder how I managed to be lucky enough to end up with her ( Read more... )

So, did we make it on time?
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We were going over to visit a friend, Ben (vonbeck) and I, and Ben was driving. As we were driving over, we were talking about upgrading the main machine gun in his car, by replacing the projectiles with ones with lifting bodies, to give them longer range. They already had guidance fins, so they were extremely accurate at long-range, since they were ( Read more... )

For the most part, you shouldn't drink really, really cheap nasty booze, even in mixed drinks. In mixed drinks, you want decent, middlin' booze. And you keep the really, really GOOD stuff for drinking straight. Really, really good stuff shouldn't be mixed ( Read more... )

Lesse. Saturday night, I got to meet theferrett; Lis's comment to me was, "He's much cuter than his userpic ( Read more... )

Lis and I attended the marriage of deyo and mactavish tonight. They had their wedding a while back, but this was their marriage. (There are a number of cases I've seen where the wedding and marriage were separated: someone goes off to war or something, and they get a quick courthouse ceremony before they leave, and then have the big wedding later; this may be ( Read more... )

So, the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are for dealing with open issues interpersonally ( Read more... )

John M. Ford died early this morning.

He was the beloved of elisem. And beloved of, well, pretty much everyone else, too ( Read more... )