Happy New Year’s Eve!

I hope everyone had a great 2013 and are looking forward to 2014! Me, I’ve got a book to write, so I know what I’ll be doing most of next year. Cheers!

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Ringing out 2012

I hope everyone has had a good year; for my part I think 2012 was pretty darn good overall. Obviously if you’ve been following this particular blog for the past year (or more) then you’ll note that I haven’t posted much (once a month, on average); a big part of the reason for that is… Continue reading Ringing out 2012

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone’s having a great Christmas this year! I know I am so far, and since it was just my birthday two days ago as well, I’ll soon write up the usual post of my haul. And we saw the Tintin movie on my birthday, which was awesome, so I’ll have more to say… Continue reading Merry Christmas!

November wrap-up

Much of November was uneventful—it mostly consisted of the usual routine for the first few weeks minus a kid’s birthday—but for the week of Thanksgiving we visited Burbank to spend the holiday with my brother and his family. That trip started out slightly awry, as we tried to leave town on Friday the 18th, right… Continue reading November wrap-up

Yuri’s Night

Tomorrow, April 12th, is a pretty momentous date: it is the 50th anniversary of the first human being to launch into space (which took place on April 12, 1961) by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Appropriately enough, the 12th is also when Yuri’s Night is celebrated, a sort of unofficial holiday “world space party” that commemorates… Continue reading Yuri’s Night

New Year

It’s kind of nice having New Year’s Day on a Saturday (and Christmas last week as well); knowing there’s another day to this weekend (and actually another after that for me—I have Monday off as well) makes it easy to be lazy and recover from New Year’s Eve. …Not that there was much for me… Continue reading New Year

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The gift tally

Really good holiday this year (by which I count my birthday and the Christmas days together), with good gifts but especially with family and good friends. My birthday was fairly low-key, with just the family and a boozy theme: a gift card to the Brew Shop, a giant bottle of Jack Daniels, a magnum bottle… Continue reading The gift tally

“That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown”

I’m not religious, but I think that clip from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” does describe what Christmas is all about. (That’s also the best Christmas TV special ever, in my opinion.) Merry Christmas, everybody. Stay safe and enjoy these days.

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