Many people came, though not nearly as many as our summer party. One person expressed interest in boating, but since he was not an accomplished boater and wouldn't have been safe alone, it didn't happen. Not as much board gaming as other random activities, but I did get to play several games, some of which were new to me ( Read more... )

I love ASCII art.

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I took Valerie to a local pedicure place, because she'd never had one, and I thought she'd like it. (She did, but probably not enough to go on her own in the future.) Turned out, we went on Chinese New Year, and they were having a celebration. At the end, after I paid, I was handed two little red envelopes. Opening them at home, they turned out ( Read more... )

Crossposting from DreamWidth is not working, I get errors about max login failures exceeded. It's not just me, a bunch of people are complaining about this. So, if you read this here, you'll miss random updates. (And, I gotta say, they're random, cuz they're about the dishwasher.)

I didn't go to the first sendoff, but Valerie did. About 100 kids from the high school walked up to the train station, were met by people from the UU church for a mini-rally at the center of town, and then took the 9:03 train in to town. My theory was that the rally didn't really start until 11, and so there was no point in going that early, so I ( Read more... )

I had an opportunity to visit the local recycling center recently, so I wrote it up:

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~yduj/recycling/

It was fascinating.

This entry was originally posted at https://nosrednayduj.dreamwidth.org/50436.html. Please comment there ( Read more... )

I had a contractor come look at the floor in the bathroom. He REEKED ( Read more... )

I finally have an unscheduled weekend, so maybe I'll catch up with posting. But of course I'm off on errands shortly, so I'll just start with a photo-blast from recent weeks:

This entertaining costume showed up in the garage at work:

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I took the longest bike ride of the season both yesterday and today. Kind of pathetic, since it was 15 miles yesterday and 19 today. I only have 275ish on the odometer since January. Perhaps this week will mark a reversal of that trend.

Tomorrow I plan to bicycle to NEFFA (6.5 miles each way). If the weather prediction holds, and nobody signs ( Read more... )

That's my estimate, anyway, of the crowd on Boston Common ( Read more... )