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Let the eating begin!

The eating season is upon us. Thanksgiving luncheons at work today (my dressing contribution is baking in the oven now), maybe another one tomorrow before heading off to my wife’s parents house for Thanksgiving on Thursday. Ham, roasted turkey, smoked turkey, macaroni and cheese, dressing, pie, biscuits, collard greens (which I refuse to eat) and all the other yummy stuff.

Then it’s off to Chicago for RSNA. That’ll be 4 days of hotel living and restaurant eating. Looking forward to downing more than a few deep dish pizzas from Pizzeria Uno and Gino’s East. Mmmm…deep dish pizza…mmmm.

And then back in time to start the Christmas baking. Stocking up on supplies to send out Christmas cookies again this year. We did fruitcakes a couple of years ago, which were surprisingly well received. I think it was the thorough soaking with rum we gave them. Making more than a 2 or 3 fruitcakes becomes rather expensive though. Last year we made spritzer cookies, which always seem to be popular. Butter, sugar and flour. That’s pretty much all they are. It’s hard to make them not taste good 🙂 This year we’ll be doing it again.
Once the cookies are done, it’ll be time to start planning Christmas dinner. More turkey, ham and dressing. More mac and cheese and greens.

After that is New Year’s dinner. Usually a little lighter fare. Leftovers from Christmas (if there are any left), maybe a ham, rice, a pot of black eye peas (which my wife’s mom says bring good luck for the new year).

And then 10 months to rest up before starting it all over again.

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Attention: JCAHO has left the building

Joint Commission survey is over, and I hear we scored pretty high with no Type 1 findings. This is a good thing. So we’re good for another 3 years. Excellent.

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175 000 miles!

Finally reached 175 000 miles on my beater car last night. Yes, it took me almost 4 months to put 1000 miles on my car. Yes, it doesn’t get driven much anymore. Basically all it does is take me the 10 mile round trip to and from work, with the occasional trip out to the mall or other shopping destinations. And only if my wife isn’t with me. If she is, we have to take her car because she doesn’t like riding in mine anymore. She’s paranoid it’s going to break down and leave us stranded on the road. But it still runs pretty smoothly, and seems pretty reliable. I’m pretty confident I can keep it going to 200 000. My wife might have other ideas though. Guess we’ll see what happens.

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Farewell Voyager

APOD’s got a pretty cool representation of what Voyager 1 is about to encounter at the edge of the solar system.

90 AU out, and moving at over 3 AU/year. That’s over 448793612 km/year (278866864 miles/year) or 51197 km/h (31819 miles/h) or 14 km/s (8.8 miles/s). Now that’s fast.

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More Blogshares

It seems that to increase the price of your blog in Blogshares, you need to comment on blogs. On a lot of blogs. Blogs that are also in Blogshares. Or have people link to your blog. Blogshares only seems to care what’s on the main index page of the blog, and with comments being transitory things, you need to do a lot of commenting. Which usually means a lot of blog reading. Now, I don’t know about other people, but I work during the day, and have other things to do in the evening so my blog reading is usually a spare time thing. And I generally don’t have much to say about to other bloggers in their comments.

And aside from search engines, I think I might have 2 or 3 regular readers (myself included), so I don’t think too many people are linking to my blog. Not that I care that much.

So I guess my blog will be relegated to Blogshares mediocrity, and my blog valuation will remain at $1000, aside from occasional spikes when I find something interesting enough to comment on.

I guess it’s a good thing there’s no real money involved.