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Well as long as Time Travel is not available through the Inter-tubes, I'll have to make do with rewriting the Wikipedia article to erase all mentions of the American holiday and only have the Canadian one mentionned. :-)
Random encyclopedic terrorism aside, I'm not a big Holiday dinner kind of guy. So, I only surf for cocktail recipes...
Falling a bit behind on my writing duties. Cloud City'a bit more of a drain than expected. Hopefully, the rest of the week should provide me with enough free time to buckle down and get up to speed.
There was a time where work would have been a problem too, but if last year's events have thought me anything, is that, aside from the 7 hours I'm being billed and unavailable, what goes in the office stays in the office...
...aside from the odd oblique reference in a blog from time to time, of course!
Not much to add, so let's go straight to the MtG Tarot outlook. LAVALANCHE, aside from the cringe-value behind this porte-manteau, this might me a good allegory of the coming work week.
An unrelenting flow of destruction heading down my way...
Business as usual.
What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
It would probably be for a movie, either a Star Wars (Original 3) marathon or Star Trek VI... Started to wait the night before for a 6 AM showing. But I guess this will probably be beaten by trying to get the C3P0 Flu shot...
Stephan LOVES Christmas. He sees the displays go up in stores and gets excited. We were walking through Kohl's a couple weeks ago and he saw their Christmas area and exclaims, "mommie, it's Christmastime here!"
Friday night I was out with a friend and we stopped in Target (the one near me is attached to the mall), I found a small tree that was $9. Didn't quite want to get it right then, but I knew that Stephan would probably love to have "Christmastime" in his room. I talked to Andy about it and we both agreed the tree was worth it. So after nap I said I wanted to go to the store and get a surprise for Stephan. He of course wanted to know what it was. When I told him I wanted to get him a tree for his room he didn't seem super enthused about the idea.
However, as he realized what I was saying he got a little more excited about things. When I showed him the little tree he got very happy and decided he wanted colored lights. We usually have white ones on the big tree, and I figured the colored ones wouldn't be as bright to leave on at night when he's going to sleep. We found the tree, the lights, a mini tree skirt and a few ornaments.
When we got home, the first thing we had to do was set up the tree, and put on some Christmas music. Stephan's a riot.
Everything always seems so much livelier through the eyes of a toddler.
First "nuit blanche" but not strictly because I have fallen behind, but rather I had to swing by Cloud City before going to work. Sigh
Just because I'm in the middle of writing this year's entry doesn't mean I'm not on the lookout for new and interesting items.
This is why I enjoyed coming across Cheliax, Empire of Devils. Coming across while this year's La Cité election was marked with mudslinging and a race to the bottom morals-wise by all parties concerned.
My RPG-playing games are all but over, but the more I read about Pathfinder, the more I find it FEELS right, as an evolution to D&D.
My Tarot outlook for the day Three of Coins (Works): The commencement of business, commercial transactions, or employment. The constructive use of creative talents, and the expression of artistry in workmanship. Skill and labor turned to the crafting of things of value. Using the conventional as a medium for expressing the exceptional, in order to build something of great renown and glory.
Hmm, a good sign for my NaNoWriMo endeavour.
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Another year of not enough sleep, last-minute desperation and managing what ever junk Lady Eris sends my way.
Taking the literary route to Europe, making it a lithmus test to whether or not my geopolitics chops are worth anything...
Would have loved had the whole Cloud City situation been taken care of before this, but having a couple more nights all to myself might be a boon.
If all fails, I might find inspiration in today's MtG Tarot Pick, HOWLING MINE .
Secluded spot, with enough coffee? Yeah, that could work...
In the meantime, I apologize in advance as my sanity will slowly crumble away...
If you could only drink one beverage for the rest of your life (not including water), which one would you choose?
CRANBERRY JUICE!!! Hard to beat, full of Vitamin C and always refreshing...
Cloud City is fizzling along like a soda bottle that's not properly stoppered... Since one of the main benefits of that project was to permit me the opportunity to diminish (if not abloish) the amount of mundane data I'm picking up, I have to implement a stopgap measure in the mean time while the situation clears itself. So back to the library, and hopefully before Christmas, everything will be okay on that front...
With NaNoWriMo starting this weekend, I feel my creative juices are percolating along nicely. Stocking up on stuff about Europe for a last-minute cramming session.
The madness begins Sunday...
Weird MtG Tarot pick as I got RELIC BARRIER for today's draw.
Then again, it is rather fitting as I'm in the process of planning ahead and this is a reminder of the usefulness of preparedness
Will you be giving out candy to trick or treaters this year? If so, what goodies can the ghosts and goblins expect to bring home?
Sadly, no there's just not enough kids passing by in my neighbourhood, so I usually drop some goodies to kids in the Albanian collective who took a shine to my mom. And does my coworkers count, if they do, I got extra-burnt "Go / No Go" brownies along with virgin Mo-Jef-ito for our department's potluck lunch...
I haven't done this in FOREVER, so here's a few at least.
- Thankful that our ultrasound went well yesterday. From what the tech said, baby is healthy. We enjoyed seeing the baby and trying to pick out all the organs she was showing us. The heart is by far the coolest.
- Thankful Andy made it safely to work. He had to go out in this awful snowy mess and not only made it all the way to work but it only took him an extra 15-20 minutes, which isn't bad when it's almost a 60 mile trip!
- Thankful Stephan seems to be napping. Most of the sledders out there aren't being too loud and I turned his music up pretty loud and have the wash going, just hoping he's able to get a good two hours before something wakes him up!
- Thankful for my new phone. While I've yet to find a shopping list program I'm in love with, and am still using my old Palm with HandyShopper, I like everything else about it, well everything except that the battery life isn't the greatest, but I'm working on figuring out how to make it last longer.
- Thankful I've not had to worry about work. We are on fall break, so now bonus snow days, but at least I don't have to worry about whether or not they are going to close my school for the day.
That's pretty much it. I've got to get some lesson planning done. Sunday I'm teaching our class. Going through the book of Esther. I worked on it some yesterday, but need to get my thoughts better organized still.
