Month: December 2005

Dear FutureMe

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Write your future self a note from your present self.

But even more fun is reading notes other people have written to themselves in the past.

I got crazy sick over the weekend but I think I’m going to be better by Christmas.  3 more days of work this week.  14 hours of Axis and Allies over the weekend.  I beat Tony but Sara beat me.  I couldn’t belive she actually played and I think she even kind of liked it.  First Monday with no school!  No celebration for finishing grad school. 😦 I should have walked in the ceremony, then people would have had to come visit from home and buy me presents!  That was dumb.  The Packers suck.  Yesterday Sara let me go through her closet and actually got rid of like 4 bags of clothes!! I don’t know what came over her.  I’m so proud! 😛

That is all.

Wine, women and Axis and Allies

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Sara’s friends from work are really into wine, which makes me feel like I should know at least the bare minimum so I’m not a complete idiot.  Plus it’s kind of fun!  So, lately I’ve been learning a little bit about wine.  So far I know 3 things:
1) The quality of the wine pretty much has nothing to do with the price.  Even if you’re a snobby wine person, it’s okay to buy wine for less than $20.  You can get good wine for $10 or $100.
2) I don’t really like white wine or bubbly wine like Champagne.
3) I do like red wine, but I’m not that into Merlot.  I do like Cabernet and Shiraz.
We went to this awesome store in Delaware called Total Wine and it is as big as like a Target, but just for alcohol.  It’s worth the drive to check out!  Anyway, we bought a wide assortment of wine to try, so we’re getting there.

I went to see Anastasia last week!  We had a good time.  Her husband from Ghana made us some authentic African food and it was sooooo good.  We played scrabble and stayed there really late (like 2 a.m. which is late for an old man like me).  We also brought wine, which was part of the above cut.  I had a good time, I definitely want to hang with them again.  They are really into politics, social policy and Africa, but it seems like maybe they might be too into that stuff.  And also I think she pretty much hates me because of where I work but she’s willing to try to overlook that. 🙂  Anyway we made plans to hang out again after the holidays.

Back in high school we played a lot of Axis and Allies and I absolutely love that game. It was out of print for awhile but apparently they are making it again.  The only problem is that it costs like $40 on account of all the little pieces.  But the other day they had a Lockheed Martin day at Toys R Us where you could get 50% off one item, so I totally bought it.  $20 isn’t quite as bad for a board game!  So I’m all ready to go and I think we’re going to play this weekend.  Unfortunately I don’t believe Sara-The-Game-Queen is going to like it very much, but maybe she’ll humor me because she loves playing games so much that if that’s the only one I’ll play, she’ll settle.

Master of the Universe

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FINALLY FINISHED MY MASTERS DEGREE!!!!!!

Wow.  What a relief.  This feels great!

I’m kind of disapointed though because I thought Sara might plan something to celebrate or something.  When she graduated from grad school I bought a gift and drove to North Carolina.  When she found out she passed her board exam I bought her flowers and a decorated a cake.  When I got home I was all excited and I was telling her about class and how glad I was to be done but she wasn’t paying attention because she was on the Internet and watching T.V.  She didn’t even wait for me to get home to eat dinner.  She just really doesn’t seem to care at all, but to me it seems like a pretty big milestone.  But who knows, Monday night isn’t the best day to celebrate, maybe this weekend we can do something.

I’m just a little conflicted because I’m glad to be done but disapointed that nobody seems to care.

I don’t know why this is funny…

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There’s just something funny about kids who are terrified of santa.

Friday and homework free

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This is kind of strange.  Here I am home early on a Friday, like usual, and I don’t have any homework to do.  It feels weird.  I completed my last assignment EVER on Wed. and now I just have to sit through 1 lecture on Monday and that’s it.  So excited.

I just went and got my licensed renewed.  This has been a productive couple of weeks for me.  Christmas decorations up, Nala to the vet, new breaks on the car, license renewed, found a new car insurance company.  I think all that’s left is Christmas shopping and getting new tires.

Saturday night we’re going over to Anastasia’s to eat and play games.  We’ve talked on the phone a few times and still get along well, so that’s all good.  I think we’re supposed to bring wine for dinner.  Too bad we don’t know anything about wine.  I offered to bring a bottle of tequilla instead. 🙂

We got about 3 inches of snow this morning and as usual Philly had it’s usual reaction of complete panic and no effort at snow removal.  Most people didn’t come to work and most schools were canceled.  By about 10 all of the roads were completely clear.  My commute only took 10 minutes longer than usual.  Pansies.