I’m sick of Christmas shopping already.  Haven’t seen anything in any of the ads that looks good and tried surfing the net tonight with no success.  Just can’t come up with anything spectacular.  Looked at both Kevin’s and Soula’s Amazon Wish List, but it seems they both want “same old, same old”–books, computer games and […]

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“What is ‘it’?” you say.  Some kind of a big expense that hits right before Christmas.  This is the fourth year in a row in recent memory.  The past three years it’s been Loki needing surgery for an abscess.  So far, I haven’t had to deal with any vet expenses. *knock on wood* This year […]

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Lots to do today, but it’s going to be a wonderful day.  The sun is shining and the temp is supposed to be around 70–a great California Thanksgiving! Baked the pumpkin pies last night and the turkey is soaking in the brine mixture.  Still have to do a bit of cleaning (vacuuming and a bit […]

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I’m so glad I decided to take tomorrow as a vacation day.  Got lots of cleaning to do and am relieved I won’t be doing it late tomorrow night and early Thursday morning.  Went crazy at work getting most everything done that really had to be done.  Still have lots to do before the end […]

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Spent almost all day Saturday working on the street Christmas decoration.  Painted the word ‘Peace’ more times than I want to remember, sponge painted, removed painter’s tape and stacked 34 decorations under the shade structure. Had good intentions for getting something done around the house Saturday night, but wound up soaking in a hot tub, […]

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I can’t believe Thanksgiving is almost here.  And then it will be just a few weeks until Christmas.  And I’m not ready for that. Went grocery shopping last night and now only need to get the turkey and a few other items for the big dinner next Thursday.  Put away the groceries last night only […]

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I don’t think I’ve been this tired in ages.  Patrick set up one of the shade structures from Burning Man in the driveway and I worked out there all weekend on our new Christmas street decoration.  Out of 34 homes on the street, 7 were represented with a total of 10 residents who helped out […]

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I HATE THEM!!! In the past week I have received phone calls from Al Gore, Sen. Barbara Boxer, LA Mayor Antonio Villarigosa, Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, and countless volunteers supporting or not supporting a myriad of candidates and propositions. Meanwhile, you can’t watch tv without hearing from every candidate telling about how great they are–or […]

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Am working on it, both here and at work. Last night made a dent in my TiVo tapings over the past week.  Nice to be able to TiVo stuff, but I then find it hard to get caught up on watching everything.  The Daily Show is filming in Ohio all week, so I’m TiVo’ing all […]

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