Tag: holidailies

New Year

Tap came down this weekend, and we got to spend some time with her before Christmas.  Hopefully, we’ll be able to see her again before the New Year.  I’m looking forward to New Year’s this year, because it’ll be a lot of fun.  Julia and I are heading down to Anaheim this year to spend …

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A Winter Without Snow

Today’s Holidalies prompt is: “Have you ever had a winter without snow?” I live in California, so the answer is going to be yes.  Pretty much every year since birth has been a winter without snow. Though, we did, one year, venture up to Lake Tahoe and enjoyed the snow, but otherwise… snow doesn’t fall …

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Two Months Later…

I started working my current job on October 10th, after quitting Yahoo on October 1st. Technically, my two month mark was on December 10th, but I held back mentioning it until I had my one-on-one with my boss. According to him, I’m doing a lot better than he thought I would. This is in light …

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Excelsior Update II

I went back to work on the model again. This time, I brought Julia’s digital camera with me! So, the pictures look ten times better, now. It was seriously chilly in the garage this evening, so I wore sweats and a thicker sweater this time, since the draftiness coupled with the fact that I could …

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Excelsior Update

I went back over to Robert’s house to work more on the model. I decided to take some before and after shots and post them here for you guys to take a look at. I apologize for the grainy nature of the photos, but for some reason, whenever I pointed the camera at the parts, …

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Golden Compass

One of my friends took me out to see The Golden Compass tonight.  It was all right… I suppose.  I did not read the book it was based on, but then again, I’m not really all that into fantasy.  I much prefer the logic of science-fiction, I guess.  It was entertaining, at the very least, …

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Progress

The model building is coming along fine, so far.  In all honesty, it’s been a long while since I built my last model.  That was around 1999, when I put together the Enterprise-E for my mother.  By the way, my mother is the reason I love Star Trek so much.  I built and painted that …

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Barney and Caesar

My father loves dogs. So much, in fact, that he would raise them and take them to dog shows. And he would win a number of these shows, mostly local and regional, but still. I remember growing up as a kid, seeing all those trophies and ribbons and asking about the names of the various …

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Experiences in Refuse

Today’s Holidailies prompt is: “Your best experience getting rid of something.” Okay, is it just me, or are the prompts this year just not getting it done?  I don’t even know where to begin to answer this prompt, because when I get rid of stuff, it’s usually not an experience to be remembered.  I guess, …

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A West Wing Christmas

For those of you who don’t know, yet (and I cannot imagine that there’s very many of you left), I happen to be a mild fan of The West Wing. Mild may be understating it a bit. There are times when my wife wishes she had married someone else for the amount of times I …

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