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| (except, you know...my boyfriend was stitting next to me)
I'm on the subway yesterday, chatting with my friend. I'm telling her how I just read this great book, "The Year of Living Biblically", and how she should read it.
I am interrupted by my boyfriend nudging me in the ribs. Across the aisle is a (adorable) young man holding up (very proudly) his copy of the book.
We start chatting, he starts talking about the author...it was all far too adorable, and far too random. It's not like this is some brand new book that just came out that everyone is reading. This is a book that probably came out at least a year ago (probably more, as I read the paperback...) and was not exactly a number one bestseller.
Random = awesome.
I just wish I had a single friend with me at the time, because that would have been a great story to tell their future children... | |
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| A merry little Christmas. | |
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| The year's almost over! The days are only getting longer! I keep finding myself at open bars!
Have a merry merry and a happy happy, and may 2010 be totally awesome. | |
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| I finally got my own little tree set up. I had to improvise the stand, because apparently no Real Americans do non-artificial table top trees, so it's completely unnecessary for merchants around here to sell them. (By the time I thought of Amazon, I would have had to pay for overnight shipping to have any prayer of getting it before Christmas.) - Music:A Christmas Carol (1984). Part 12 of 13
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| -After smacking my car around on ice- and snow-covered roads the past couple of days, I thought my gas gauge was dropping a bit faster than usual on the way to work today, so I ditched an assignment and had it checked out. Good news: no leaky gas tank. Bad news: I was stuck at the shop for a couple hours, because I had another legit problem, and they were trying to see if they could get a part. Other bad news: the part can't be there until next week. Better news: it's nothing that'll cripple my car in the meantime.
-As a result of sitting at the shop for a few hours, I had to go into hyperproductive mode when I finally got to the office. I had edited some pictures on the laptop while waiting for my car, but I had to go through, edit some other shots, plus pull three days' (and six sports') worth of photos for our athletes of the decade series. Cool idea, but a lot of work, especially when you either have to hope you have decent stuff from 2002 on archive CDs, or have to scan film to make up for the lack of archive stuff (in other news, I shot some very bad pictures back in the day).
-Faced with the possibility of a Disney parade-less Christmas morning, I spent some time searching for the potential of a webcast of the parade, with little luck. So, when I got home, I decided to see if there was a solution: could something be done quickly to get our TV to receive ABC? I futzed with the antenna; changing the orientation of the loop got us something other than a totally blank screen, then I picked up the antenna. Boom, instant signal. I lifted it about six feet in the air, and the signal was perfect - OK, awkward, but setting it on top of the TV yielded the same (or at least very similar) results.
So yeah, a matter of moving an antenna about two and a half feet gave us back ABC, the Disney Christmas parade, LOST... and probably increased reception across all channels. I feel 50% genius, 50% utter fool.
OK, more like 10%/90%.
-Christmas has just snuck up and clubbed me with a nail-studded baseball bat. Wasn't it just Thanksgiving? Can I get a time-out here? I'm ready for it and all, but the end of December just leaped up out of nowhere. | |
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| Athletes of the Decade = film strewn all over my desk. | |
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| Wind + snow = fun shapes. | |
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| Oh, lobster tree, oh, lobster tree... | |
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| After the third round of shoveling. This is nuts. N-V-T-S nuts. | |
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| MOUNTAIN REPORT FOR: JEN AND BRYAN'S HOUSE
New snow in last 24 hours: 18"
New snow in last 7 days: 18"
Mid-Mountain Base: 18"
Lifts open: 1 (Main Lift, aka "The Stairs")
Trails Open: All
Primary Surface: Powder
Secondary Surface: Even More Powder
Base Temperature: 24
Summit Temperature: 23.5
Comments: The Front Walk, Sidewalk and Driveway trails have been groomed repeatedly; the Front Yard terrain park is open, with the addition of a buried car for extra fun! Off-trail skiing is available in the Back Yard area, though conditions have not been checked for safety. Ski or snowboard at your own risk. The Garage Lodge is closed; use the Main Lodge instead. We are currently out of hot chocolate. | |
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| Signs your neighbors are native South Jerseyans: no one knows it's easier to shovel four inches of now four times than 16 inches once. | |
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| Fun things I learned by poking around the FAA website for 15 minutes: there's a no-fly zone above Disney World and Disneyland, plus a general no-fly zone over any stadium hosting a major sporting event.
Also, I feel sorry for anyone flying into Philly today - the average delay inbound is six hours, 11 minutes, and it's probably gonna get worse. | |
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| NPR doesn't always make me angry: sometimes it makes me sad, like when they tell me Carl Kassel is retiring from Morning Edition (but not Wait, Wait, or I'd probably freak out worse than when WHYY stopped running Car Talk twice a week). Not that I'm frequently conscious enough to listen to much of Morning Edition, but it's the principle of the thing. I mean, c'mon, it's Carl! | |
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These are my happy thoughts. | |
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| The other night I was driving home on the Turnpike and got bored. It's kinda pretty at night. | |
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