The bunnies heartily disapprove of being placed in coffee mugs and having silly Internet people look at them. Just so you know. Hm. Sunday didn’t have a lot to report. Did some chores, cleaned the house. I ran into Zach and Sarah completely at random at Bass Pro Shop. They were shopping for warm clothes [...]

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I really hope this isn’t the latest fashion trend for guys. People would forget to feed them, or something, and that’d be bad. Saturday wasn’t a lot to write home about. Lots of running errands and trying to get schedules for things later on set up. There’s supposed to be an e-mail coming soon about [...]

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This is the Chris Burton Flamenco Ensemble performing at the Luminarias. The guy all the way to the right is Chris; the other two guys are Flamenco and Ensemble. Until I saw these guys, I had no idea that “The Little Drummer Boy” could be made into an instrumental and transformed into a totally different [...]

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Wretched excess! Get your wretched excess here! Thing is, the mass of presents under the tree is probably smaller than the mass of presents we had last year. Ah well, no worries. Fuzzball has decided that the ribbons on some of the presents make great chew toys. Thursday was relatively uneventful except for a series [...]

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This is the handbell choir that was at the Luminarias. I think they were attached to a Methodist church in Paradise Valley. They were pretty good, and the room where they were playing was packed. Apparently, Wednesday is Stephanie’s designated “ride the bus” day. So instead of reading, I spent the morning bus ride talking [...]

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Another Luminarias sculpture, though this one wasn’t really that interesting. Tuesday at work, one of the internal boxes had some sort of runaway process on it that disrupted a bunch of stuff for about 10 minutes. We got it under control, but it was a little nerve-wracking. Trivia: We were sitting in a totally different [...]

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This was one of the better sculptures at the Luminarias on Thursday. The main problem with the sculptures was that they were all bronze, and not that many of them were well-lit. Bronze is too dark and matte to show up well in low light. Hm. Not much to say about Monday. Apparently, one guy [...]

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In what’s now an official tradition, the Christmas tree had a ton of penguins on it. (Larger JPEG on the penguin tree.) It apparently rained on Sunday, since I saw a few wet cars drive in to the parking lot. I didn’t notice any rain happening here though. Long weekend’s over, time for actual work [...]

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This is mostly what the whole Botanical Garden looked like on Thursday. Some of the larger trees had lights on them, and there were bags with candles in them marking the paths out. Saturday: Not much happened.  Well, I got a lot of household chores done.  Also, all of the voice actors for the game [...]

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Here’s one of the Luminarias pictures, showing Anthony Wakeman playing the flute for a crowd of people. I took several pictures of this guy, but this was the best and it isn’t that great. Low light levels for the lose. I didn’t use a flash because I felt it would be disrespectful, and people who [...]

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