Asymptomatic

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Light Thanksgiving
November 22, 2006

We’ve been having a family debate about this year’s Thanksgiving. In addition to changing the venue from Nana’s house to our house, we’re thinking of having a different menu for Thanskgiving dinner. Explaining what I’m after when I refer to a “light” dinner has been a challenge.

Every year, we have the traditional turkey dinner. Our meal usually includes stuffing, mashed potatos, cranberry sauce, corn pudding, biscuits/rolls, sweet potatos, perhaps some other vegetable like green beans, and pumpkin pie. All of this is served family-style, and there is often much more food than we really need. I guess that’s the seed of discontent.

Holiday Shopping?
November 19, 2006

It’s crazy out here.

We’ve gone out for lunch and to pick up a few items for the house, specifically paint for Abby’s room. All of our tasks are common - we’d be doing it anyway no matter what time of year it was. But everyone else out here is nuts.

Missed the PS3. Wii?
November 18, 2006

I was out shopping for a UPS the other day after the power went out at home and I encountered a strange thing while pricing at Circuit City.

There were several tents erected outside the from door of the Circuit City store. What the heck?

Thunderbird Is a Pain In the Butt
November 17, 2006

It’s pretty late, but I’m riled about Thunderbird. There are oh, so many annoyances that I just can’t take it any more. I’m about ready to try anything.

I am tired of Thunderbird marking just anything that comes in as spam. The “adaptive filters” are a joke. I reset the filters, and in three days it’s marking everything as spam. It can’t tell the difference between incoming mail from mailing lists that I’m on and the ones that look like they’re from a mailing list but are just an embedded gif advertising Vi4gr4.