Whew! Good thing it’s a long weekend, as we need a day or two just to recover from yesterday! In anticipation of stuffing our faces later in the day, we started the day running in a local 5K turkey trot. We ran this race last year, and I had to walk the last part of…

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Poor Chuck! He’s suffering under a myriad of deadlines: a big website redesign, a catalog update, and he’s about to start teaching a series of classes in Northern California. At this inopportune time, he gets his jury duty summons. It’s the call-in kind, and when he called Sunday night, he didn’t have to report. Called…

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Not SO scary. Saturday night was the annual Halloween shindig at Jack’s, so Saturday was spent mostly in preparation. Chuck and I were a cowboy and cowgirl (but this year Chuck got to be the cowboy – two years ago Chuck bravely agreed to go as a, well, you just have to see it). We…

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I ran across this today. For a split second I bought into it, then realized it was bogus. Too bad, I’d get one if it existed (as Chuck knows and fears)! Check it out: the iPod of the future today! But I wouldn’t tivo Joey, I’d tivo CSI or West Wing.

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My cousin sent me an email yesterday, letting me know it was “International Very Good Looking Damn Smart Woman’s Day, so please send this message to someone you think fits this description.” She very kindly thought of me (and who am I to quarrel with her?). Anyway, the end of the message had a great…

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Well, okay, it’s actually fall and I’m still on vacation doing stuff. So do you want to hear about it or what? I arrived in Pittsburgh and was amazed to discover sunny skies!! This was strange and unsettling. Normally when I visit here it rains and snows and does other inclement things on a pretty…

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