I’m having the first of like four Thanksgiving dinners. What are you doing?
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Playing with Greasemonkey and javascript. I just happened to stumble onto this.
Op-Ed Columnist – Time for Him to Go – NYTimes.com
Go read the whole thing. It’s a hoot.
I’ll have to read the article, but the first thing that comes to mind is:
And let Cheney be President?????
There’s unfortunately no provision for Bush to leave office and step up Obama’s inauguration by a couple of months.
Laundry. Ugh.
I’m trying to figure out my new blackberry. I think I am technologically handicapped but being basically masochistic in nature, I am determined to become literate in this new computer age. Besides, it really impressed the chicks at the Irish bar that I go to when I combine shamanism with IT. Sometimes, I go on a tear and heal everyone who is injured but, then, they don’t let me buy a drink and….
Whoever thought retirement would be this much fun.
I just got my new (firm issued) Blackberry Bold, and so far, aside from accidentally taking a couple of photographs, have not used it for more than business e-mail. It is not that I am technologically handicapped – I had better NOT be! – but I am really not that much of a gadget person, and just haven’t taken the time to even learn what all the features are, let alone figure out how to use them.
I think I am the only person in the world without a cell phone of some kind. Yesterday Girlfriend and I were walking on the berm near the Pacifica Pier and it was discouraging how many people were stumbling along, talking on their devices. I go into the hills for hours at a time and the only person I talk to is myself. Quietly. Occasionally I’ll talk to a deer or a hawk.
Today I’ll talk to the TV, though. Hopefully the Niners will give the Cowboys a fight. I’ve hated Dallas for forty-five years now.
I resisted getting a cell phone until one morning I got stuck in dead-stopped traffic on my first day with a new client, and had absolutely no way of getting in touch with them to let them know why I would be very late. I got my first cell phone very quickly after that, and have no idea how I managed without one. I don’t use it a huge amount, but I’d be very literally lost without it. I also have a cell phone that I use exclusively when I am traveling outside the country. I cannot imagine being without it.
The Cowboys are the reason why I am a die-hard Steelers fan – America’s team my arse. I heard them make that claim in ’78 and thought to my 10 year old self, “I’m an American, they’re not my team!” The Lions had gone 2-14 again and the Steelers just got finished smashing the Cowboys, so I jumped on the bandwagon and I’ve been there ever since.
Did you get a good look at those turkeys being slaughtered in the background of the latest Sarah Palin’s video?
No, no turkey in this household this year or maybe never again.
So what am I doing? Not eating turkey.
It seems we will be having turkey, but at least it will be organic free range turkey.
I’ve spent the last 11 hours vacuuming, dusting, polishing and scrubbing. I feel quite martyred by now. I have to hold the T-day dinner because I’m the oldest surviving female in the family. I’m not done cleaning yet. And I HATE turkey.
Wah, wah, wah.
It’ll be at home this year. It’s my nephew’s first Thanksgiving, so my parents are putting on the show. I get to take pictures of everyone, lol.
I just hooked up my fairly fancy new DVD/VCR player/recorder/etc. It even copies VCR tapes onto DVD’s. I was putting it off because I thought it would be complicated to get it hooked up so it would work correctly together with my satellite receiver, DVR, and TV, but then I realized it was just like daisy chaining a bunch of servers on a single network port, and I got it working perfectly on the first try. Now I have to figure out how to use all the nifty features.
I’ve been thinking of getting one of those. I’ve got some old VHS tapes of the kid at age three that I’d like to put on DVD for posterity.
I chose the one I have because it had the best user reviews on Amazon.com. I have not really used it yet at all except to test whether I had the system hooked up correctly, so I can’t testify about it one way or the other. The main criticism on Amazon.com was the poorly written user guide. As someone who has studied and done quite a bit of technical writing I find no excuse for that from a major manufacturer, but if the equipment itself is well-designed and well-made and functions well, a bad manual is a fairly minor concern. There were mixed reports on technical support, so the lesson there is that it depends on who you get on the line with you when you call.
Watching South Dakota State at North Dakota State on the big teevee (Go Jacks!!!) and Iowa at Minnesota on the little teevee (Go Hawks!!!!).
We go about a mile to the ILs for Thanksgiving. MIL will not let anyone do anything (but will complain about how stressful it all is), but we’re bringing some snacky appetizers this year b/c there’s never anything to eat before dinner and that just doesn’t work for 4-year-olds (and his hungry parents).
Oh, and trying to make my terrible WRs into something so I have a chance against the Dust Bunnies tomorrow…
Maronite Cathedral, Aleppo, Syria.
The Maronite church is part of the Roman Catholic Church, but has its own liturgy and rules. The liturgy and hymns are in Aramaic (which is closely related to, and sounds like Hebrew), and Arabic. For a non-Maronite attending a Maronite service at one moment it sounds like you are in a synagogue, and at the next, an Arabic church. In the Maronite church, unlike the mainstream Catholic church, a married man may become a priest, but a priest may not marry once he enters the priesthood. Most of the Maronites are in Lebanon, and prior to 1948 there was a significant Maronite population in Palestine, some of which was allowed to remain after the creation of the State of Israel. There are also Maronites in Syria, as this lovely old cathedral, located in the Jdeida district of Aleppo, indicates.
Scene in the Jdeida district, Aleppo, Syria.
Jdeida, or “new” district, is only called “new” because it is less ancient than the Old City of Aleppo. It is still more than a thousand years old. It is sometimes called the Armenian district because it was originally inhabited mainly by affluence Christian merchant families. Now it is a more mixed district, and one of the favourite upscale shopping and dining areas in the city as well as a very pleasant place to hang out and just wander around. It is one of the most delightful historic parts of Aleppo, one of my favorite cities on earth.
Beautiful pictures, Hurria. Thirty some years ago I went to Europe on a college summer study program. Somewhere in northern Spain I walked on a Roman aqueduct, still in good repair and I think still in use. I wondered then and I wonder now, looking at your photos, how many of my nation’s creations will still be standing in a thousand years. Not many, I think, and not so beautiful.
…..as usual, I will be working…..a nurse’s work is never done…:o)
happy turkey day to all…stay well and safe and do not eat tooooooooo much for I hate to see misery…hugs to all
I really wish Obama would stop talking about “clean coal.” I created this logo to express my opinion, and I’m selling it on Zazzle
Joe is squirming under a very low fire today on Meet the Press. Here is the question: Is what you did political treason or just the height of ingratitude and disloyalty?
“God put our eyes on the front of our head so we would be naturally forward looking.”
And he’s officially forgiven himself.
I watched about a minute of it before I had to change the channel. It sounded like he was saying that he was willing to reconcile with the party – seriously!
For the record, I am not a Democrat, I dislike political parties, and do not and will not belong to one, but as someone who supposedly aligns himself with a specific party Lieberman’s behaviour during the campaign combined with his expectation that he could retain his former status with the party is simply despicable. The man has no shame.