Last day of 2010, just about ready for 2011. Most people are off work, since New Year’s Day is on a Saturday, so that’s kind of nice. And those people who want to party hearty will be able to take advantage of 2 full days of recovery, should they need it. I don’t have anything [...]

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Here’s a shot of a guy playing some large handbells with sticks. This is actually the easiest way to deal with larger handbells, since they can weigh over 20 pounds each. Thursday, I had to go to work. There were many, many extremely stupid “security notices” from Qualys, who are probably the least competent technical [...]

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This is the keyboard player of Huney Brown, a group that was performing at the Luminarias three days ago. She was trying to add some energy to the crowd, but everyone was pretty relaxed. She did say that she was from Detroit, and was happy that the Lions had won, which was kind of neat. [...]

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Here’s a somewhat blurry photo of the lights on the mountainside on Dec. 26. This turned out a lot better than Dad’s attempt to capture the same scene. I think this is because my camera allows for 1-2 second exposure times, while his doesn’t. Ah well. Monday, Stephanie had to work. Mom, Dad, and I [...]

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Sunday, Boxing Day, we all went to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch. Mom and Dad wanted to take Stephanie somewhere, and couldn’t do that tomorrow since Stephanie has to work tomorrow. But anyway, we all had tons of salad, bread, and dessert. Then we went to Fried Electronics, mostly to get a memory card for Dad’s [...]

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Saturday, we got everyone together at my place and had a Christmas celebration with presents and everything. I think I got 12 tons of stuff, including a sci-fi trilogy that the library only had one book of, shirts, and a couple of scarves from Stephanie’s parents. Dad got an enormous Doonesbury book, Mom got a [...]

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Friday, Christmas Eve. Mom bought a pink sweater for Moira, and it was a lot easier than we expected to get the sweater on Moira. Moira also tolerated the sweater a lot better than we thought she would. Not all of the pictures I tried to take turned out well though. After lunch, Mom and [...]

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Thursday had significant amounts of mechanical fail. My parents were supposed to arrive in Phoenix at about 14:30 MST, but were delayed for a very long time thanks to bad weather and didn’t get in until 18:11. I tried to wash my car, figuring it would be no problem. Nope, the dollar bill changer wasn’t [...]

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Wednesday, I spent most of my time cleaning things and buying things. I think the house is just about ready, though, and there’s certainly enough food and stuff for everyone. However, after dinner, it started raining lightly, and has continued to rain for about half an hour, and shows no sign of letting up. This [...]

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Very early Tuesday morning, my alarm went off. “Oh, the lunar eclipse is almost at totality. But I’m really tired. So. ZZZZZ.” I found out later that there were far too many clouds in most of the Phoenix area for anyone to see anything anyway, so it all worked out for the best. Anyway. No [...]

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