The day after Christmas is always kindof odd. It feels like the world has been on hold for the past 24 hours while we wait for Santa to make his rounds. We watched the little packages show up on the NORAD Santa Tracker this year. The adults sang kareoke Christmas Carols while [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
god*** dialup
Sunday, December 21, 2008
I am currently in one of those itty bitty patches of So Cal where there still is no broadband access. There is no cable TV, the sattelite signal is *so* weak that getting broadband over the direct tv service isn’t even worth the price increase. Yet less than 5 miles away I can [...]
The Holiday dilemma
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Well, there are a lot of them, but the one I have in mind this week is the whole grandparent gifting thing. I have a lot of gits ideas for my kids, I mean, they’re MY KIDS, and I do pay attention to the stuff they like, mostly. So when both Grandmothers come tome for [...]
ITS FINALS WEEK
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
I have this love/hate thing with finals week going on. On the one hand, it’s really cool. I get to see all the ass-busting my students have been putting in come together in what usually turns out to be a really cool final project. On the other hand, this is when all the people who [...]
Peppermint… darnit
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I loooooooooove real peppermint. It’s probably not *real* real, like you might’ve got 100 years ago (if you were rich) but the peppermint-flavored bulk-candy canes. Skittles and Jelly Belly are making fruit-flavored candy canes now. It’s just… *wrong* somehow. My husband and I made an agreemenet a long time ago, that we were llowed to [...]
