On Friday, we went down to Tonawanda to celebrate the 21st birthday of my niece (by blood) Jennifer. My sister-in-law (and other members of her huge clan) organized a Hollywood Oscar-themed party, complete with red carpet. mvt was unfortunately sick, but I went with marahsk and Andre. Driving down from Toronto, we were fashionably late. Many people were in ( Read more... )

We (marahsk and I) are heading to Niagara Falls on Friday evening for Eeriecon. We will be throwing a (modest) Seattle party there ( Read more... )

Tuesday: voted in Democrats Abroad primary at the Elephant and Castle pub, noted previously

Thursday: went to the First Thursday pub night, saw the usual crowd, which was nice as I haven't seen them for a while

Friday: went to Nile on College; marahsk wanted to organize thoughts about FilkOntario con suite. mvt and dlacey listened. Andre, Cliff, and I ate ( Read more... )

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Phyllis Koenig Obituary in the Buffalo News

Death Notice

Phyllis F. Koenig, physics professor and environmental consultant

March 21, 1935-January 20, 2008


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My mom passed away Sunday morning unexpectedly.

I got the news just after nine. We were at ConFusion in Detroit. My brother Paul, who lives on the other side of Detroit, called me before 9 AM. It took us a couple of hours to get organized and pack; we were on the road shortly after 11. We made it to Wheatfield (North Tonawanda) around 4:30 PM. My ( Read more... )

Let me start with things I need ( Read more... )

Happy birthday mvt!

Had a great weekend. Harry Potter in IMAX was worth the extra few bucks. Might even want to see it a third time. ;) I would have posted Monday night, but I was still catching up on sleep. I love you.

Quick recap.

Got into Buffalo Friday evening. I wanted chicken wings, so marahsk drove me to Duff's. We had them medium hot. (As the T-shirt says "Medium is hot. Medium hot is very hot.") Got home after 2 AM.

( Ad Astra program meeting )