Jorn calls defective yeti the funniest weblog ever. To wit:
It would be cool if, at the end of Return of the King when Sauron finally gets the ring, they played I Got The Power by Snap, and Sauron could dance around and do the rap part ("it's gettin' kinda hectic!") and then be all like, "BOOYAH! It your face, hobbits!!" I think that would really drive home how evil he is.
Very Deep Thoughts.
The response
Monday, January 13
Hadn't thought of that, either. That's why I read Steven. He suggests the inspectors might not want to find evidence, in this case. To run with that, maybe they wouldn't turn the evidence over to the US. Not trying to be hawkish here. Just playing it out.
(That's not to imply universal endorsement, of course. You get silly things like comparing America to a Tigger you can't take the bounce out of.)
(That's not to imply universal endorsement, of course. You get silly things like comparing America to a Tigger you can't take the bounce out of.)
Hadn't thought of that, either. That's why I read Steven. He suggests the inspectors might not want to find evidence, in this case. To run with that, maybe they wouldn't turn the evidence over to the US. Not trying to be hawkish here. Just playing it out.
Kottke had a critique of Safari and Sherlock that Dennis Mahoney parodied pretty brutally. Is this a friendly thing or a mean old jab?
In my travels on friday I came across a site I hadn't visited before, PalmTolkien. There are a bunch of downloads (including a BBC interview with the professor from 1971), including a hidden path to something not wholly legal alluded to in the title of the site.
Wholey Mackerel! Scott got linked by Matt, as well he should have. Then Anil linked Matt's post from his sidebar. This is the best-case-scenario for ticketstubs. Congratulations, Scott. I wonder if I've gotten any referers from your referers.
(and if you want to see the effects in graphic detail...)
(also, I thought Scott might have cracked Blogdex. But I looked through 301 and didn't see him...)
(and if you want to see the effects in graphic detail...)
(also, I thought Scott might have cracked Blogdex. But I looked through 301 and didn't see him...)
Friday was a frustrating computer day. We wrestled with my Outlook all day and finally got it back online around 4:30. So I didn't get everything logged that I wanted to.
Jaq pointed me to the new Return of the King pix on AICN. Everyone's headlining with the Gandalf in battle pic (extraneous detail: with Glamdring, the Foe-Hammer) and it is boss.
But that's not enough for you, dear reader, and not enough for me, either. I found all 12 pictures on friday for you...
Then I couldn't find them again. Argh!
I finally found them after some amount of looking. All 12 high resolution pictures from The Return of the King promotional calendar (completely written out to help Googlers).
You're welcome :-)
Jaq pointed me to the new Return of the King pix on AICN. Everyone's headlining with the Gandalf in battle pic (extraneous detail: with Glamdring, the Foe-Hammer) and it is boss.
But that's not enough for you, dear reader, and not enough for me, either. I found all 12 pictures on friday for you...
Then I couldn't find them again. Argh!
I finally found them after some amount of looking. All 12 high resolution pictures from The Return of the King promotional calendar (completely written out to help Googlers).
You're welcome :-)
Eeek. On pins and needles. Ferentz is one of the leading candidates for the Jacksonville job. This could affect Oklahoma, too. If Ferentz goes you'd think Mike Stoops or Chuck Long would be leading candidates for the Iowa job.
Sunday, January 12
I like Brad Johnson. I like Jon Gruden ok. But I don't like, really don't like Keyshawn Johnson and Warren Sapp - always running their mouths. So I have mixed feelings about the Bucs winning today. Yes, their defense was really good. But their offense isn't that good. The 49ers secondary has been plagued by injuries.
We'll see how TB does against the Eagles. I rate the defenses about even and the Eagles offense better. Advantage: Eagles.
I was sorry to see Pittsburgh lose, but they just couldn't get it done yesterday. I'll tell you this much, a lot like the Giants game last week, you can't put this on the officials. The Giants let the 49ers come back and the Steelers couldn't get it done when they had the chances.
As for the Falcons-Eagles, I'm glad the cult of Vick is over for this year. He's amazingly talented, but, as someone said earlier this season (I forget who), let's not put him in the Hall yet. He's one injury away from being Bo Jackson. The Eagles defense handled him and the offense was strong enough with just-healed McNabb to get it done. The offense will have to be better next week against TB to win.
We'll see how TB does against the Eagles. I rate the defenses about even and the Eagles offense better. Advantage: Eagles.
I was sorry to see Pittsburgh lose, but they just couldn't get it done yesterday. I'll tell you this much, a lot like the Giants game last week, you can't put this on the officials. The Giants let the 49ers come back and the Steelers couldn't get it done when they had the chances.
As for the Falcons-Eagles, I'm glad the cult of Vick is over for this year. He's amazingly talented, but, as someone said earlier this season (I forget who), let's not put him in the Hall yet. He's one injury away from being Bo Jackson. The Eagles defense handled him and the offense was strong enough with just-healed McNabb to get it done. The offense will have to be better next week against TB to win.
Rudy Carrasco is smart and funny. He's a Latino doing urban ministry in Pasadena. He's tech savvy. If any of those vibes interest you, you might want to check him out (via joshsargent).
Rudy had two posts I want to steal:
1. a quote from James Q Wilson is the WSJ:
William Galston, once an assistant to President Clinton, put the matter simply. To avoid poverty, do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and produce the child after you are 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three will be poor; of those who fail to do them, 79% will be poor.
Obviously this is mostly correlation and not cause and effect. Doing these 3 things doesn't make you middle class, per se. But the correlation is powerful.
2. Mike Yaconelli's Getting Fired for the Glory of God. I read this in print and hadn't looked for it online. It's especially from the viewpoint of a youth minister.
Rudy had two posts I want to steal:
1. a quote from James Q Wilson is the WSJ:
William Galston, once an assistant to President Clinton, put the matter simply. To avoid poverty, do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and produce the child after you are 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three will be poor; of those who fail to do them, 79% will be poor.
Obviously this is mostly correlation and not cause and effect. Doing these 3 things doesn't make you middle class, per se. But the correlation is powerful.
2. Mike Yaconelli's Getting Fired for the Glory of God. I read this in print and hadn't looked for it online. It's especially from the viewpoint of a youth minister.
Wednesday, January 8
Steven's prologue to the war in Iraq. Salient points:
In the case of Iraq, the disinformation for most of the last year was valuable because it covered a period in which we had (I now think) decided to attack Iraq but did not yet have sufficient force in the region to defend against an Iraqi spoiling attack. There were also diplomatic reasons why it was important to not paint the writing on the wall
I hadn't even considered the possibility of a 'spoiling attack'. And there was diplomacy. But I've been convinced since november 8th that we're committed, barring something really extraordinary, almost miraculous. You don't spend the money to move all that stuff if you don't plan on using it, bottom line.
Interesting speculations about new technology, including ElectroMagnetic Pulse.
In the case of Iraq, the disinformation for most of the last year was valuable because it covered a period in which we had (I now think) decided to attack Iraq but did not yet have sufficient force in the region to defend against an Iraqi spoiling attack. There were also diplomatic reasons why it was important to not paint the writing on the wall
I hadn't even considered the possibility of a 'spoiling attack'. And there was diplomacy. But I've been convinced since november 8th that we're committed, barring something really extraordinary, almost miraculous. You don't spend the money to move all that stuff if you don't plan on using it, bottom line.
Interesting speculations about new technology, including ElectroMagnetic Pulse.
Mists of Avalon review
I sure am hating Mists of Avalon. I don't know if I'll keep reading it or not. The caricature of the church is infuriating. Criticize the church. Bring it on. But don't create a parody where there is absolutely no good in the church at all, where every Christian is a stupid hypocrite. It's like me writing about pagans as all having pointy caps and wearing black and think they can fly on broomsticks and they're always stupid and maladjusted and fat and Goth wannabees who read too much Anne Rice. Why do I keep reading? I'm interested in the plot, a little. And Zimmer is a good writer.
Listen, I'm a feminist in the sense of wanting equal rights and opportunities for men and women. I have a daughter and I want her to be able to read stories of heroines who are strong and useful, and I want her brother to read them, too. This, though, is beyond the pale.
I did a little research on Marion Zimmer Bradley. I was surprised to find out she was not a professed pagan, and that she even took the name 'Christian' (at the end of the FAQ). (I'll mostly be responding to Thoughts on Avalon.) However, the flavor was Catholic Gnostic of a stripe that allowed veneration of the Goddess silently reappearing in Saints and the veneration of Mary...the worship of the female aspect of the deity.
God is not male. God is not female. But we are not allowed the latitude within orthodoxy to talk about God as Goddess. We need to use the forms God revealed Godself in, and Goddess is not remotely one of them (though there are plenty of feminine images).
Bradley's intelligent characters advocate a universal Spirit that can be venerated in most any form - including The Horned Stag, Mother Earth, the Virgin Mary, or whatever. This is way out of bounds.
I think the neo-pagan movement offers a very viable alternative for people, especially for women, who have been turned off by the abuses of Judeo-Christian organized religions.
Wrong. I am sorry. The abuses of Christianity have been many and egregious, but we don't have this kind of flexibility available to us.
I sure am hating Mists of Avalon. I don't know if I'll keep reading it or not. The caricature of the church is infuriating. Criticize the church. Bring it on. But don't create a parody where there is absolutely no good in the church at all, where every Christian is a stupid hypocrite. It's like me writing about pagans as all having pointy caps and wearing black and think they can fly on broomsticks and they're always stupid and maladjusted and fat and Goth wannabees who read too much Anne Rice. Why do I keep reading? I'm interested in the plot, a little. And Zimmer is a good writer.
Listen, I'm a feminist in the sense of wanting equal rights and opportunities for men and women. I have a daughter and I want her to be able to read stories of heroines who are strong and useful, and I want her brother to read them, too. This, though, is beyond the pale.
I did a little research on Marion Zimmer Bradley. I was surprised to find out she was not a professed pagan, and that she even took the name 'Christian' (at the end of the FAQ). (I'll mostly be responding to Thoughts on Avalon.) However, the flavor was Catholic Gnostic of a stripe that allowed veneration of the Goddess silently reappearing in Saints and the veneration of Mary...the worship of the female aspect of the deity.
God is not male. God is not female. But we are not allowed the latitude within orthodoxy to talk about God as Goddess. We need to use the forms God revealed Godself in, and Goddess is not remotely one of them (though there are plenty of feminine images).
Bradley's intelligent characters advocate a universal Spirit that can be venerated in most any form - including The Horned Stag, Mother Earth, the Virgin Mary, or whatever. This is way out of bounds.
I think the neo-pagan movement offers a very viable alternative for people, especially for women, who have been turned off by the abuses of Judeo-Christian organized religions.
Wrong. I am sorry. The abuses of Christianity have been many and egregious, but we don't have this kind of flexibility available to us.
Wow.
A new amazing application (and why Amazon doesn't integrate it, I don't know).
Amazon Wish List ranking (via kottke).
If only I'd had this before Christmas and my birthday... (reason #xyz not to have your birthday so close to Christmas - it's all over for another year.)
A new amazing application (and why Amazon doesn't integrate it, I don't know).
Amazon Wish List ranking (via kottke).
If only I'd had this before Christmas and my birthday... (reason #xyz not to have your birthday so close to Christmas - it's all over for another year.)
More from Byzantium:
I hadn't seen, until Jaq pointed it out, that Liv Tyler has recorded a song for Return of the King (last news item on the page). He said I wouldn't like it. My comment:
yikes! you're right, i don't like it! is this really the place to let little Steven Jr try out her pipes?
I hadn't seen, until Jaq pointed it out, that Liv Tyler has recorded a song for Return of the King (last news item on the page). He said I wouldn't like it. My comment:
yikes! you're right, i don't like it! is this really the place to let little Steven Jr try out her pipes?
A comment by me from Byzantium:
i actually prefer Rob Roy to Braveheart. it's a great movie! the scale is so much more manageable and believeable. the sword-fight climax is absolutely wonderful. Tim Roth is amazing. and i wish Liam Neeson, as seen in this role, would have been Aragorn instead of Viggo (and I wish Neeson hadn't been Qui-Gon).
i actually prefer Rob Roy to Braveheart. it's a great movie! the scale is so much more manageable and believeable. the sword-fight climax is absolutely wonderful. Tim Roth is amazing. and i wish Liam Neeson, as seen in this role, would have been Aragorn instead of Viggo (and I wish Neeson hadn't been Qui-Gon).
Tuesday, January 7
Just ordered an armband for my rio nike psa mp3 player from etronics. The shipping is a little bit of a gouge, but I couldn't find it here in Tulsa.
John had a great post on Collaboratory, and I had a long answer, so I'm just going to re-post here.
ultimately, even this better model is too simplistic. it would be better to break it into, say, 20 values and see where people chart.
eg, i value faith and resultant morality (not morality for it's own sake) highly, but i don't place a big value on country. i'm against 'abortion, euthanasia, divorce and suicide'.
on the other hand, i'm not going to push these on anyone. i propose them, but i will not impose them. so, ultimately, i value freedom more highly than legislated morality.
i value survival more than self-expression, but once basic survival and a modicum of life-quality is reached, i want to promote freedom, again. i don't dislike foreigners, homosexuals, or people with AIDS. but i'm pessimistic about what politics can pull off.
so, i have some major breaks from these categories. but if you were to chart me anyway, i guess i'd be about in the neighborhood of Poland, India, and Bosnia (left of center and just below the midpoint. notice, left here is actually more conservative).
i had two posts 1 2 about a year ago that address my beliefs in detail.
more -
fascinating:
- that the countries hang together by continent enough to color them together.
- Europeans are pro-EU and anti-Russia and Israel.
- Americans are ok with Russia and Israel and less sanguine about the EU.
- more French think the spread of American ideas is a bad thing than Lebanese.
The “quality of life” axis is the one most closely associated with political and economic freedoms. So Mr Bush is right when he claims that Americans and European share common values of democracy and freedom and that these have broad implications because, at root, alliances are built on such common interests.
i don't know, maybe i'm closer to America in aggregate, but answering the questions differently.
America... is strikingly traditional on average. But, to generalise wildly, that average is made up of two Americas: one that is almost as secular as Europe (and tends to vote Democratic), and one that is more traditionalist than the average (and tends to vote Republican).
America['s] domestic political debate revolves around values to a much greater extent than in Europe. Political affiliation there is based less on income than on church-going, attitudes to abortion and attitudes to race. In America, even technical matters become moral questions. It is almost impossible to have a debate about gun registration without it becoming an argument about the right to self-defence. In Europe, even moral questions are sometimes treated as technical ones, as happened with stem-cell research.
all of this points to my dissatisfaction with the two-party system. i'm more 'traditional' than Dems and less 'self-expressive'.
but if i could pick 4 parties i'd go to one of those other grids. i'm a classic liberal on the idealog grid.
liberal | communitarian equality
---------------------------------------------------
libertarian | conservative | freedom
freedom order
then you have to add in that i have, personally, more conservative values (this might go on another grid). then you have to add in that i have a lot of problems with the Dems, including their support of programs that don't work (i'm against the part of them that is 'tax and spend').
a similar grid from self-gov.org
Left-Liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.
When you put the two surveys together, I shade Libertarian to some degree, especially in tax policy. I think we should have drastically reduced taxes and have people pay for most of their services on an individual/use basis. Does that alone I don't think we should subsidize business or protect it with tariffs, but i think we need minimum wage laws and some public foreign aid. When you add up the first three in that last sentence, I'm pretty much 'anti-business'. The way I think of it, I always put individuals and their right to earn a living wage over the rights of businesses to grow and earn more money.
Heck, in some ways, I could wear any of these four titles, in different respects. But if I had to pick one, I'm a classic liberal (which doesn't equal a US Democrat. I have massive disconnects there.).
There's a similar, more extensive test over at Political Compass. The grid is similar, too, but flipped and then turned counterclockwise about 45 degrees (if you can visualize that):
To conclude:
- In economics I value basic equality over freedom to create wealth.
(So, I want to leave the minimum wage in place and collect a small amount of tax revenue.)
- In moral issues I value freedom over order.
(Though I choose conservative morality based on my religious beliefs I will not impose those morals on others.)
This puts me somewhere between classic liberal and libertarian.
so there's more than you wanted to know :-)
ultimately, even this better model is too simplistic. it would be better to break it into, say, 20 values and see where people chart.
eg, i value faith and resultant morality (not morality for it's own sake) highly, but i don't place a big value on country. i'm against 'abortion, euthanasia, divorce and suicide'.
on the other hand, i'm not going to push these on anyone. i propose them, but i will not impose them. so, ultimately, i value freedom more highly than legislated morality.
i value survival more than self-expression, but once basic survival and a modicum of life-quality is reached, i want to promote freedom, again. i don't dislike foreigners, homosexuals, or people with AIDS. but i'm pessimistic about what politics can pull off.
so, i have some major breaks from these categories. but if you were to chart me anyway, i guess i'd be about in the neighborhood of Poland, India, and Bosnia (left of center and just below the midpoint. notice, left here is actually more conservative).
i had two posts 1 2 about a year ago that address my beliefs in detail.
more -
fascinating:
- that the countries hang together by continent enough to color them together.
- Europeans are pro-EU and anti-Russia and Israel.
- Americans are ok with Russia and Israel and less sanguine about the EU.
- more French think the spread of American ideas is a bad thing than Lebanese.
The “quality of life” axis is the one most closely associated with political and economic freedoms. So Mr Bush is right when he claims that Americans and European share common values of democracy and freedom and that these have broad implications because, at root, alliances are built on such common interests.
i don't know, maybe i'm closer to America in aggregate, but answering the questions differently.
America... is strikingly traditional on average. But, to generalise wildly, that average is made up of two Americas: one that is almost as secular as Europe (and tends to vote Democratic), and one that is more traditionalist than the average (and tends to vote Republican).
America['s] domestic political debate revolves around values to a much greater extent than in Europe. Political affiliation there is based less on income than on church-going, attitudes to abortion and attitudes to race. In America, even technical matters become moral questions. It is almost impossible to have a debate about gun registration without it becoming an argument about the right to self-defence. In Europe, even moral questions are sometimes treated as technical ones, as happened with stem-cell research.
all of this points to my dissatisfaction with the two-party system. i'm more 'traditional' than Dems and less 'self-expressive'.
but if i could pick 4 parties i'd go to one of those other grids. i'm a classic liberal on the idealog grid.
liberal | communitarian equality
---------------------------------------------------
libertarian | conservative | freedom
freedom order
then you have to add in that i have, personally, more conservative values (this might go on another grid). then you have to add in that i have a lot of problems with the Dems, including their support of programs that don't work (i'm against the part of them that is 'tax and spend').
a similar grid from self-gov.org
Left-Liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.
When you put the two surveys together, I shade Libertarian to some degree, especially in tax policy. I think we should have drastically reduced taxes and have people pay for most of their services on an individual/use basis. Does that alone I don't think we should subsidize business or protect it with tariffs, but i think we need minimum wage laws and some public foreign aid. When you add up the first three in that last sentence, I'm pretty much 'anti-business'. The way I think of it, I always put individuals and their right to earn a living wage over the rights of businesses to grow and earn more money.
Heck, in some ways, I could wear any of these four titles, in different respects. But if I had to pick one, I'm a classic liberal (which doesn't equal a US Democrat. I have massive disconnects there.).
There's a similar, more extensive test over at Political Compass. The grid is similar, too, but flipped and then turned counterclockwise about 45 degrees (if you can visualize that):
To conclude:
- In economics I value basic equality over freedom to create wealth.
(So, I want to leave the minimum wage in place and collect a small amount of tax revenue.)
- In moral issues I value freedom over order.
(Though I choose conservative morality based on my religious beliefs I will not impose those morals on others.)
This puts me somewhere between classic liberal and libertarian.
so there's more than you wanted to know :-)
Monday, January 6
Remember that Tolkien names post below? Kathy deserves a name as a faithful, regular reader (even though she thinks Collaboratory is just a who-can-use-the-biggest-word contest). Therefore,
Lady Kathy of Cincinnati, Mother of Josh, Undisputed Mistress of Star Wars Trivia, Quoter of Wil.
(And I will resist the fact that Linfoot is obviously a hobbit name. I'm guessing you don't really want to be a hobbit.)
Lady Kathy of Cincinnati, Mother of Josh, Undisputed Mistress of Star Wars Trivia, Quoter of Wil.
(And I will resist the fact that Linfoot is obviously a hobbit name. I'm guessing you don't really want to be a hobbit.)
We played The Lord of the Rings boardgame with Jim and Luke and Kathy (Josh's mom) last night and had a lot of fun. We actually played twice, and we finally won the second time, so we were happy about that. We didn't play the expansion (Friends and Foes) that Christine got me because we're not ready for more options yet. Thanks, guys.
I watched almost all of the Cleveland-Pittsburgh game yesterday: Maddox, Hines, Burris, Randle-El, and the run defense against Holcomb, Northcutt, Morgan, and Johnson. I like watching those guys. Tommy Maddox continues his cool-headed play. Man, he's great. My fore knowledge that Holcomb should be starting was right. What happened at the end is that Cleveland let up and quit scoring and their defense played stupidly. They got penalty after penalty, they weren't thinking about the clock. Sadly, former Vikings Rudd and Griffith contributed to these penalties. The offense didn't keep firing and the defense wasn't up to the task. Foge Fazio couldn't get the coordinator job done when it counted at Minnesota, and I don't see him doing it in Cleveland either. His guys aren't disciplined.
Anyway, it was a fun game to watch, and I was kind of pulling for the underdog Browns and Holcomb, but I'm happy with Maddox and Reed (the new clutch kicker) and Cowher winning, too.
Anyway, it was a fun game to watch, and I was kind of pulling for the underdog Browns and Holcomb, but I'm happy with Maddox and Reed (the new clutch kicker) and Cowher winning, too.
Friday, January 3
I happened across the Central Opt-Out Database. They're trying to fight spam. Go register.
Bob Cringely's assessment of his predictions last year and his predictions for the coming year. My thoughts:
- too bad we have to have monopolies. With Dell it's ok because computers have basically become a commodity. But with Windows we pay inflated prices for a bad standard. Hopefully Linux will push Windows to higher quality. Too bad we don't have a user-friendly Linux yet (do we? one that has a user-friendly GUI and doesn't require UNIX commands?)
- Death to the RIAA! (but you knew I felt that way.)
- #14 - I doubt it, though I wish it were so.
- It makes sense that Google would be the ones to further penetrate weblogs and help to provide even more helpful content from them.
- too bad we have to have monopolies. With Dell it's ok because computers have basically become a commodity. But with Windows we pay inflated prices for a bad standard. Hopefully Linux will push Windows to higher quality. Too bad we don't have a user-friendly Linux yet (do we? one that has a user-friendly GUI and doesn't require UNIX commands?)
- Death to the RIAA! (but you knew I felt that way.)
- #14 - I doubt it, though I wish it were so.
- It makes sense that Google would be the ones to further penetrate weblogs and help to provide even more helpful content from them.
My wishlist is on I Wish, You Wish and coauthor Shelli stopped by to wish me a happy birthday. Very nice!
Science fiction books I love (from Scott's posted link):
the Foundation trilogy, all of the Frank Herbert Dune stuff, Ursula K Le Guin's space stuff (including The Left Hand of Darkness from this list), The Neuromancer trilogy and All the World's Parties by Gibson, all of the Ender books by Orson Scott Card, Stephenson's Snow Crash and Diamond Age.
the Foundation trilogy, all of the Frank Herbert Dune stuff, Ursula K Le Guin's space stuff (including The Left Hand of Darkness from this list), The Neuromancer trilogy and All the World's Parties by Gibson, all of the Ender books by Orson Scott Card, Stephenson's Snow Crash and Diamond Age.
Thanks to all who proferred birthday greetings.
My parents were here over the new year and took me to breakfast yesterday morning. The Touchets and the Aldags came over New Year's Eve and a great time was had by all. The yummy fare included Ballatore, Baked Brie with Apricot Jam, and a Homemade Gourmet Cheescake Ball. Also yesterday I played a lot of Civ2, went to Target, CompUSA, and Best Buy looking but didn't buy anything, worked out, took a bath, talked to Kyle and Erin on the phone, and watched the Hawks lose (rats)!
Christine was especially kind to me by taking on more childcare tasks that would normally be shared. She also baked a cake and got me some nice presents, the most notable of which was the Friends and Foes Lord of the Rings Expansion, which promises to be very cool.
My parents were here over the new year and took me to breakfast yesterday morning. The Touchets and the Aldags came over New Year's Eve and a great time was had by all. The yummy fare included Ballatore, Baked Brie with Apricot Jam, and a Homemade Gourmet Cheescake Ball. Also yesterday I played a lot of Civ2, went to Target, CompUSA, and Best Buy looking but didn't buy anything, worked out, took a bath, talked to Kyle and Erin on the phone, and watched the Hawks lose (rats)!
Christine was especially kind to me by taking on more childcare tasks that would normally be shared. She also baked a cake and got me some nice presents, the most notable of which was the Friends and Foes Lord of the Rings Expansion, which promises to be very cool.
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