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Remember how it took place in Vancouver, city of much rain? And it did rain a fair bit while the ATPoers were here. But on the day that Jane was to hold her big ATPo barbecue, she asked me especially to make sure that there would be no rain. It was a big order, and as I had done in the past, I warned her that we would have to pay dearly for messing ( Read more... )

Just one more thing...(and yes, I realize it's ironic that I can only find things to post about now that I not going to use this journal any more)...those of you who have known me for a while have become accustomed to hearing me moan and whinge at this time of year about the perennial lack of snow in Vancouver.

Not this year.

On Tuesday night/ ( Read more... )

Well, It,'s that time of year again.


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Hello there. I hope you are all well, and I wish you all the best of the upcoming holiday season.

I am doing very well, and have adjusted to a life of comparative leisure. I have a secure government disability pension, and my long-term disability insurance from my employer, and I will remain on those two salary replacements until retirement age. I ( Read more... )

Well, hello there. I haven't even been able to glance at my flist for weeks, it seems. But this will not last forever. Sooner or later the pressure from my course has got to lighten up...I'm heading into the last quarter now, and I'm sure to get some sort of break when my first year is finished...aren't I? Please ( Read more... )

O hai.

I maded a lolcatz. So u kan see it heer http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?
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and vote and give 5 cheezburgers.

kthxbai

;o)

Happy New Year...in about 3 hours or so.

I just finished Black Dogs by Ian McEwan, and I won't start reading another book until after midnight, because we're going to watch Die Hard 475, so I'll be able to keep track of all 2008 books, like LadyS. did this year.

I shall accomplish something!

Ha-ha!!

;o)

Just under the wire, on December 31, ( this )

I need his assistance. I just don't buy this.

In my in-box this morning:

"It was on this day (December 21) in 1913 that the very first
crossword puzzle appeared in The New York World. It was the invention
of journalist Arthur Wynne, who called it a "Word-Cross," but the
typesetter made a mistake and printed the game as "Cross-Word" and the
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