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Here's what you do: you take some dried hot peppers. Don't have any? Buy a couple at the store and stick them in the oven at 225 for a couple hours. Anyway, you take those dried hot peppers and put them in a coffee grinder and grind them nice and fine. Then you empty a packet of hot chocolate (Land o' Lakes makes good stuff. Who knew?) into a mug, ( Read more... )

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"Making pie" is not a euphemism, but is much more fun than expected.

Boondock Saints!
Now that I've seen the sequel, I really want to watch the original. Plus my son hasn't seen it yet, and clearly this gap in his education needs to be filled. So if anybody wants to come by tomorrow around 6ish and enjoy it in HD on the 65-inch screen, you're more than welcome.

An ex of mine used to say that if you ask me what time it is, I'll tellyou how a watch works. My new supervisor appears to be the same way. Holy crap is that annoying!

ETA: This Saturday! That's November 7th, 2009.

The first monthly Sci-fi/Fantasy GeekTV night. This month, what better way to kick off the holiday season than with Death guiding a sleigh pulled by eight flying pigs?

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It turns out that I misunderstood slightly; the Owings Mills position wasn't a job offer, it was more of a "if they offered you this, would you be interested." I said yes, but now we need to set up a phone interview with their testing guy, and they don't appear to be in a hurry. Meanwhile, the Lebanon job wants me to start tomorrow. Just so we're ( Read more... )

As of this morning, I've received two offers, neither of which thrill me very much ( Read more... )