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Well today from Netflix the first cd from season 7 of Red Dwarf. It is an excellent choice for a Chinese home picnic.
Very simple instructions for said picnic:
©BBC. If the embedded version dies you can watch this sequence here.
I must confess I am a sucker for Ace Rimmer and any situation when Nazi’s are getting beaten up.
Some thoughts on the snow.
It kept the crew from coming to try out that talisman expansion, will have to do it this afternoon.
Figured with all the snow people might be shoveling and not calling into unemployment yet, I was right got through on the 2nd try!
Had to dig out to get Steve’s son to hockey this morning as he is staying with us this weekend. I don’t know how he and his wife manage all the events with 4 kids.
I noticed the long list of protestant churches and Jewish synagogues closed on the news. You never see a Catholic Church closed. Mass is always held but the faithful are advised not to risk life to get there. Since the priest usually lives in a rectory next door this isn’t a problem. Also in a city like mine the Church are neighborhood churches so many people can walk to mass. I don’t know how it is in more rural areas.
Notice when things seemed to be getting warmer everyone cried Global Warming, now since things are cold it is “Climate Change”.
Our city had budget problems before the market crashes, I can’t see how we are going to pay for our snow removal this year.
I’ll have more to say on that but I have shoveling to do. Read you in a few hours.
Some local Fitchburg stuff:
Today is the first day since Nov 11th that the kids have gone to school, the youngest as usual on the first day was up early and ready. It will be the only other of the school year when it is true.
When my wife leaves for her school in a half hour the house will be as peaceful quiet as Pat Cohan’s at 8:45.
That is my favorite fight scene ever in a movie.
Glaze ice all over my road. My other son has a large catapult about 3′ x 1.5′ x 2′ for a school project so I drove him. The main roads are sanded but the side roads stink. That’s Fitchburg all over.
The Diner at the end of the road is still there after 3 weeks. It is not only amazing that someone just opened a business in Fitchburg but it also opened during the week of the ice storm. I wish them luck.
Their sandwich sign should have their morning special on it ( 6-8 a.m. 2 eggs, homefries, coffee, toast $1.75). and not just their opening. If breakfast under $2 won’t get people in there nothing will.
Found out Sabino the baker has retired. When I was a kid after mass we would go there to pick up our italian bread for Sunday dinner. His bakery burned down in 1977 killing a local fireman John Cetrino (the street formally called 5th street is now named for him) and he moved. A while back he got involved in a restaurant-specialty store in Leominster called Tre Sorelle where his daughter worked. He would be up 6 days a week baking fresh bread there. When I drove by one day and saw his name I literally did a 270 to pull into the place. Thanks to Tre Sorelle my sons had the chance to taste the best Italian bread in the world. Sabino is now 80 and decided he had enough of a 6 day week. I wish him the best. His rest is our loss.
Since the house is still pretty clean from the party I guess it is job hunting, blogging and some Civ IV today.
2:08 p.m. Let the record show my son’s friend Kevin was the first to arrive.
2:11 p.m. My son just got his official acceptance letter from Anna Maria College.
2:13 p.m Guests are coming in blogging will be spotty unless guests record their arrival.
2:19 p.m My sister in law brought an Ice Sculpture of a Penguin. The wife is thrilled!
4:44 p.m. The count is 22 people so far 4 of whom have already left.
4:45 p.m. Forget Ken that makes 23. Just won a game of Monty Python Fluxx
6:48 p.m. Count is up to 33. There is an inordinate amount of beer in the house as each person who came decided they didn’t want bud or bud light. Had to make a soda run.
10:33 p.m. Guest # 39 showed up at 9:45 that is 5 above our last record. We still have about 8 guest here and there is the chance that more will come. 2 Lasagnas are gone, most of the Sauce but there is still a half a pot of Chili a half dozen wings and ham, and a loaf and a half of Italian bread. This doesn’t count salads and veggies.
11:14 p.m. The last guest has left, we will stay alert as guests have been known to show as late as 11:45 p.m. Prelim final count at this point is 39.
12:20 a.m. Food is put away wife crashed 30 min ago and its time for me to hit the sack, final official count 39 guests of which 6 came for the first time. Much to my surprise I didn’t get a single guest from the HiWired group although a few said they couldn’t make it. Read you in the morning.
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