Monday! I didn’t have to go to work, which was nice. I bought a couple of bags of canned goods and dropped them off at the local food bank. Then I ate lunch and spent some time reading. Monster Hunters International isn’t great literature, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun, and there’s [...]

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Last night, right before I was going to hit the sack, I got a trouble ticket. It only took about 20 minutes to fix, but it was still annoying. It rained on Tuesday afternoon for a while, which is always nice to see. Tuesday had a bunch of regular work stuff, with some more fiddling [...]

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Anyhow. Friday was relatively normal at work. Apparently, Aaron hates spicy food, so instead of going to a Thai restaurant, we went to an Italian restaurant. I live for spicy food, so I find this a little weird, but whatever. I gave a presentation after lunch. This presentation explained the structure and functions of almost [...]

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There was a whole lot of stuff on Monday. I finally got to start reading Ghost Story, which is a bit of a departure from the previous Harry Dresden books, but still interesting and fun. And at work, we’ve got a new person in the cube farm, so that provided a bunch of stuff for [...]

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Saturday night, Stephanie and I went up to Payson to see a bunch of the trivia people and Patty and Spencer. This was pretty good. They’d made vegetarian lasagna, salad, bread, and appetizers, so we all had plenty of food. Apparently, javelinas roam through the subdivision that Patty and Spencer are in. The tiny “Beyoncé’s [...]

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This lithophone at the MIM reminded me of the old Barry Hughhart book The Story of the Stone. Sunday didn’t really have that much that was going on. This was actually a relief. I did some reading and made dinner, and that was about it. It took us seven months, but Stephanie and I finally [...]

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Wednesday had a horribly long morning with all kinds of hassles attached to it. Apparently, some stuff was supposed to be set up, but I hadn’t received any mail, IM conversations, carrier pigeon messages, or any documentation at all about the stuff that had to be set up. This was. . . suboptimal. Other people [...]

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Back to work, though there wasn’t really anything more annoying than the usual amount of stuff that piles up over a long weekend. Hari had gone to Vegas over the weekend, and he stayed out late, won about $100 on blackjack, and had a great time. Other people had mostly stayed in town, though. There [...]

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Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 2nd of July. Well, it was a pretty quiet day. I didn’t do all that much, since it was supposed to be 117° F in the afternoon, which is way too hot for most stuff. Got groceries, did laundry, finished reading The Skinner. It was reasonably [...]

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Wednesday had a slight change of plans from the usual, since Steve had a bunch of work to do. That meant no Rock Band 3, so Stephanie and I pooled our resources for dinner—salad, chicken, and the last of the leftover enchiladas. And then we watched episode 6, season 4 of “Babylon 5″, “Into the [...]

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