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File this one under: You know you’re getting old when: You go to work and spend the first two hours of the day wondering whether or not you turned off the heating pad that you were using to doctor your aching foot. And then you finally leave work and take an abbreviated lunch just that day just so that you can confirm… drum roll please…. Yes, the heating pad was off…. Add to that this evening. Went to dinner with a friend after work – largely to bitch about co-workers … Continue reading →

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What do you say about today?? I don’t think that I or any of us will forget the attacks on New York and DC today. I’ve felt like I was living in a dream all day. We all sat around today and listened to CNN’s audio feed on my computer and tried to fathom what was happenning. Reports kept coming in and changing as the day passed. It was like a ghost town when I left the office this afternoon. Where I normally wade through traffic to get home (even … Continue reading →

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More or less just got back in from this evening’s walk. I didn’t end up going to Lowe’s this afternoon. I got a call just as I was ready to leave this afternoon and it was raining so I figured I might as well get it done rather than face it later and put off the mulch. Maybe tomorrow. And when I did leave, traffic in the direction I would have gone to run such errands was abysmal. So, I came home and had dinner and vegetated just a bit … Continue reading →

DragonCon 2001 – Day 1

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Day One of DragonCon 2001 ended last night. Was a long day of course! Drove to the airport to pick up Brandy and her friends, Jan and Karilyn, yesterday morning. I was late and, of course, their plane was early, but it worked out that I got there just a few minutes before they got off, so surprisingly for my normal luck, it worked out well! We circled the area of the Marriott for probably 20 minutes trying to find the street that ran in front of it so I … Continue reading →

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Day One of DragonCon 2001 ended last night. Was a long day of course! Drove to the airport to pick up Brandy and her friends, Jan and Karilyn, yesterday morning. I was late and, of course, their plane was early, but it worked out that I got there just a few minutes before they got off, so surprisingly for my normal luck, it worked out well! We circled the area of the Marriott for probably 20 minutes trying to find the street that ran in front of it so I … Continue reading →