Allen December 28th, 2004
We spent Sunday celebrating Christmas with my wife’s family — they delay Christmas until the 26th, when my brother-in-law celebrates his birthday.
Monday was "get ready for church event" day where my wife and son prepared for going out to St. Chrispin’s for a church event. We scrambled around running errands and doing various "domestic" activities.
So today they left and my daughter and I were going to spend part of the day cleaning around the house and I was going to spend part of the day working on my weblog.
HA!
My wife called around 11:00 am to say that my son had forgot his guitar and they needed for me to run it out to camp. With one thing and another, I didn’t get to work on my weblog (until right now). So the day was unproductive.
However, on a lark, I turned right out of St. Crispin’s and drove down to Krebs, OK. It is a small town outside McAlester that has about 3-4 excellent Italian restaurants and groceries. It is well known regionally. After spending so many years telling my daughter about now nice Pete’s Place (and other restaurants) are, she finally got to have a fine meal at Pete’s with her dear old dad.
Spent the ride home playing 20 questions with the subject constrained to movie characters. The only one she didn’t get was Lampwick from Pinocchio.
So it was a nice day out with my daughter — a productive day by any measure.
Allen December 24th, 2004
Just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Just spent the day with my parents and are ready to go to midnight service at the Episcopal Church that we attend. I’ve been incredibly busy at work as well as learning the full details of Dreamweaver and now working on Flash. We’ve gotten notification that it looks more likely that our office will be shutting down in April. I’m starting to work in earnest on brushing up on my skills.
I will have the next week off so I hope to post some of the drafts that I have stored up. I also hope to make more time during the day to work on my blog. I’ve been so busy that I need to start carving out time in my day for it
Allen December 14th, 2004
The folks over at Angry Alien have released another 30 second bunny adventure. This time, they remake It’s a Wonderful Life. As with all their productions, its done with bunnies and performed in under 30 seconds.
Be sure to click on the bunny outlines at the end for bonus features.
[Note: Still swamped at work and home. More extensive blogging will resume shortly.]
Allen December 12th, 2004
I just want to congratulate Matt Leinartt on winning the Heisman trophy.
Just a few words of advice for Matt….
Matt-
Enjoy your winning the Heisman trophy. Take this time off to bask in the glory of winning one of the most prestigious awards in college football. Be sure to attend all the parties that you are invited to. Go out on long, late-night dates with supermodels and attend the high-energy dance parties with them. Jet around the world and meet with European princess who are dying to meet you and get to know you better. Eat the rich foods and drink all the Cristal you want to.
You’ve earned it.
It’s not like you have any big games coming up.
Allen December 8th, 2004
Do you ever think, “Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me“?
Humorous NSFW flash cartoon. Safe to watch, just not safe to crank up the speakers.
[Via TopFive email]
Allen December 7th, 2004
I was riding home from work today when I heard a reporter on NPR discussing some area. The quote in the piece reported that environmentalists were worried about the impact on the area.
So when, exactly, has an environmentalist not expressed concern about an area? How many press releases have been dispersed wherein concerned people were worried? Compare that number to the number issued where they really didn’t give a hoot?
Just wondering….
As a note, work and home still overwhelming my time so blogging will continue to be light. Lots and lots of draft postings waiting.
Allen December 3rd, 2004
John Scalzi details the 10 least successful Holiday Specials. Do yourself a holiday favor and read it.
[Via Hit & Run]
Allen December 2nd, 2004
If you like Click and Clack (Brothers of NPR’s Car Talk) and other auto-related humor, you’ll like Chad’s typical posts of auto-related message boards: New Car.
[Via Llamabutchers]