A Very Navy Thanksgiving.
Friday, November 28th, 2003Jeff had duty aboard the USS Iwo Jima, and I had nothing better to do, so I tagged along for Thanksgiving. This is a brief essay, with pictures.
Archive for November, 2003
Jeff had duty aboard the USS Iwo Jima, and I had nothing better to do, so I tagged along for Thanksgiving. This is a brief essay, with pictures.
That’s my little brother!
Friday, November 28th, 2003Scott: You want to come with me to Chapel Hill this weekend? Jeff: Ummm... let me think about that... no. Scott: Fine, be a dick. Jeff: Do you know any hot girls in Chapel Hill? Scott: Several. Jeff: Any slutty hot girls? Scott: (sigh) If you come with me this weekend, you will not get laid. Jeff: ...
This is why I want to name my first-born son Ian.
Saturday, November 15th, 2003Jethro Tull is my favorite rock band of all time -- and when I found out that Ian Anderson was playing Durham on Tuesday, I was heartbroken when I did a little quick math and realized I couldn't afford to go. But then my man Ethan Kaye sent me an article ...
I keep my nerd card for another day.
Thursday, November 13th, 2003And a free lesson for all of you: If an application for a Unix-type system goes and configures itself and uses the static paths to things like home directories, go ahead and change them right away to the virtual paths. You never know when your hosting company is going to move ...
The miscellaneous details you seem to crave.
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003In list format: - My NaNoWriMo novel is sort of on track... I'm up to just short of 15,000 words (out of a goal of 50,000 for the month of November), so if I can start cranking again, I can catch up. I wrote 3,000 words in an hour this evening, ...
Here are some pictures of my cats.
Thursday, November 6th, 2003This is Hootie, our mom's cat, parked on a paper bag underneath a small table. It's his favorite spot right now. This is Stephanie, who I adopted in June from the Virginia Beach SPCA, an outstanding organization. They've lived together for about five months or so, and barely acknowledge each other's right ...
An open letter to my inner editor.
Monday, November 3rd, 2003Dear Inner Editor, There's no denying you're totally awesome. You're great at what you do. Thanks to you, I've written some stuff in my day that really amazes me. Honestly. And I know you're used to working with the words before they hit the page, but that's probably why I've never written ...
He watches them so you don’t feel as obligated to.
Monday, November 3rd, 2003My boy Dan Tefler is the newest critic on Critics Island, which seems to be a cutesy Survivoresque vote-'em-off with movie critics. Vote to keep Dan and Frank, vote to eliminate Melissa and Guy. Clear your cookies, cheat to win.
