We finally got a start on our Christmas baking. A little later than usual. All of you people expecting cookies will just have to wait a little while. They’re going to be late this year. But they’ll still be just as tasty!
The tree is up too, with a few presents underneath it even. Christmas cards are coming in, but we’ve just been too busy this year to send any out. So to those of you that sent us one (and those who didn’t send us one), I apologize for not sending out a card. But we do wish all of you a happy and fun holiday season and all the best for 2005!
We’ve been thinking of doing one of those Christmas form letters people seem to be so big on. You know, those ones that you get from your friends and family telling you about all their accomplishments and big events over the past year. I thought it might be interesting to take it a step further and do one as a blog entry. The wife thinks I might be a little too ahead of my time though. I think I’ll give it a try anyway. It’s not like there are a lot of people reading this anyway. Or are there…
I want to buy stuff again!
You know, as much as I enjoy the holiday season, I’ll be glad it’s when it’s over and so that I can start buying stuff for myself again without worrying that someone’s already bought it for me for Christmas or my birthday.
A busy holiday season
The holiday season is always busy for me. Not with holiday things, but just work things. Most people see things slowing down at work during the holidays, but for me that’s usually when I’m the busiest. New equipment installations for some reason seem to happen most often between Oct-Jan as companies push for sales and installations to close out their fiscal year. Departments with new budgets buy new equipment which just happens to get installed this ime of year.
And then there’s me trying to get the last of the surveys done in the remaining few weeks of the year.
This year has been busier than most because of some of the new responsibilities I’ve taken on and have assumed. A couple more research studies to support, other projects to work on, and lots of web stuff to wor on.
It just never ends. In a few weeks it will be time to start the whole equipment testing cycle all over again.
A Stargate:Atlantis nit
There’s one small nit-picky thing that bothers me a little bit about Stargate: Atlantis. When McKay talks about the ZPM, he pronounces it with a ‘zee’. But he’s supposed to be a Canadian scientist and should be saying it as ‘zed’.
Of course the most obvious explanation is that he’s been working with Americans so long that it’s corrupted the way he says things. I bet he probably uses the ‘-or’ spelling instead of the ‘-our’ spelling too.
Well, it’s just a TV show I suppose.
I just realized that 4 out of the 5 main SG:A characters are Canadians after reading the cast profiles. I thought some of them looked familiar.
ME LaZerte Class of 1987, where are you now?
I happened to catch My Coolest Years: The Geeks on VH1 last night, which got the wife and I talking about our high school experiences.
I’d say I was definitely a geek in high school, but I wasn’t nearly as tormented (at least I don’t remember being tormented anyway) as some of the geeks on the show were. I roamed among a fairly diverse crowd and had a lot of friends in just about every group you can think of. But I was definitely a geek. I did things like Reach For the Top (one of those team-based answer the question type games) and student council.
While most of the guys opted for the machine shop/industrial arts type options or band or sports, I chose Food Studies because I knew one of these days I’d be out on my own and would need to know how to cook and feed myself. The three years of Food Studies (10, 20 and 30) I took turned out to be one of my favourite classes in high school.
Unfortunately I’ve since lost touch with many of my high school friends, except for an occasional e-mail from someone who managed to stumble onto my email address. Every now and then I wonder what some of those people are doing now. Maybe some of them will stumble onto this blog and find a former classmate. If you are one of those people, leave a comment or email me!