This sculpture is in the gardens of the Phoenix art museum. It’s just totally silly. Horses hate wearing masks and hats, for one thing. After getting some sleep, I was able to fix the stupid problem with the database that plagued me yesterday. Sometimes, error reporting is . . . not as clear as it [...]

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This piece of art juxtaposes curved wires against a background of evenly spaced vertical wires. The result is a piece that looks slightly different when you look at it from different angles. It almost looks like cursive writing in a strange language. Sunday, we didn’t do much, mostly because I was still partially sick. We [...]

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Here’s one of the photos from the Phoenix art museum, a photo of a photo that depicts an Indian monk wearing a funny hat. Sorry about the bad focus; there’s not a whole lot I can do without a tripod since flash photography is not allowed there. On Saturday, a whole bunch of us (all [...]

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This painting was in the Phoenix Art Museum, which we all visited on Christmas Eve. More photos from that will feature in later entries. So, Christmas was pretty good. The parents came over at about 9am, and we opened the presents. The big excitement was Mom’s gift; we got her a Wii and an extra [...]

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The image is recycled. The sentiments are not. Get together with your family if you can, your friends if you can’t, and have a good time today. I know I’ll be out there trying. We’ve got a pile of presents, a turducken breast, a bottle of good wine, some side dishes, and a mostly functional [...]

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The parents are here! Of course, they were delayed due to bad weather all through the Midwest. They finally got here around 3pm AZ time, and got to my place a bit after 4. We were thinking about going out for dinner, but we’re going out on the 24th and 27th, so I just grabbed [...]

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Laundry has its own hazards. This shirt used to be black, and somehow it ended up going in the same load with T-shirts, socks, underwear, and some bleach. Now I don’t know what to do with it. Not a lot going on. Cleaning the house and getting last-minute groceries for the family, who are flying [...]

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Full update later on. Watch this space. It’s kind of late and I’m kind of tired, so this will post at 6am and I’ll edit it later and add more stuff. Went over to Kelli’s on Sunday afternoon to see everyone and play trivia. Miguel was there, which is rare since he spends a lot [...]

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So Zach, Juan, Mike, and I went to the rifle range on Saturday. That was fun (as usual). I tried a 5-shot .357Mag revolver, which was interesting, and some other rifles that I’d shot before. I also bought a pair of -25 dB earmuffs before getting to the range, since while earplugs are great, they’re [...]

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This is . . . not everything, but pretty close to it. We’ll certainly have a bunch of presents to open on the 25th. Friday was a quiet day. I found that the great database catastrophe was due to a single malformed query that happened back in October that ate a couple of columns. The [...]

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