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dancerjodiIts quiet here in the office since I'm one of the two early workers. I think if possible I may cut my lunch hour and skip out of here early today.
I didn't do such a great job over the weekend with my nutrition and workout goals but heck - its a new week :)
B and I had an interesting weekend. We spent most of the time together, just the two of us (heh, thinking of that Eminem song now). Last night we were going to have romantic "clean the basement" or "drywall the laundry room" night and then after making some progress, burn some of the wood from the laundry room up in the fireplace. Instead we had "redo the plumbing in the laundry room because the trap in the drain pipe is in the crawlspace and uninsulated thus causing water to freeze inside of it" night. I found this out when I heard water gushing up and out of the drain pipe from the kitchen - oops! It was funny, on our late trip to Home Depot the people in line in front of us were *also* buying pipe insulation and regular pink fiberglass stuff too.
I woke up to find pieces of fiberglass on my face this morning, odd (since I wasn't even putting the stuff in). B worked on the laundry area while I tackled cleaning part of the basement. God, I didn't know you could have so much dust and dirt in one area!
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We checked out a really neat bookstore this weekend in Worcester which was CRAZY because they happened to be having a new age fair. http://www.tatnuck.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp was huge and had a great selection of all kinds of books. B picked up an autographed autobiography of Bruce Campbell ("Give me some Sugar, Baby") and a digital photography book. I refrained from buying anything since I'm still working on my "Soul of Sex" book, and, need to make sure I have enough money until payday for gas for the Saturn and other silly things. From there we headed to see Star Wars Episode II at the Imax Theater in Natick - vibrating seats!
Yesterday I went out to Groton to visit a friend - I haven't been in that town since I was in 6th grade and attending http://www.grotonwood.org/gwood/index.htm . I'm such a dummy, I never realized it was a religious camp (though I guess this would make sense, after all I was in Catholic School when I attended for a week in January). That place was so great - we had so many wonderful activities (like collecting mucky water and looking at the contained organisms under a microscope, and going out for late night nature walks lit only by the light of the moon and learning about the rods and cones in our eyes). It was sort of an "Outward Bound" type thing - like, with kids swinging on ropes between trees over big pits.
Their house is beautiful, and I also learned that horses are way bigger than I remember - its been a long time since I've been on one. And our bunnies REALLY like the timothy hay mix (though they were intimidated by the huge pile that we put on their "patio" area at first).
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Its Martin Luther King Day today. It always makes me remember of one of my old professor and great mentors stories of his experiences in Chicago with Dr. King in the 60's - he finished grad school the year King was assassinated. Its just fascinating the kinds of experiences that he had, and the wonderful people that he was able to be around.
I wonder, do we have any charismatic heroes of that scale today? I don't think my generation has seen as much that was historically significant. This may make things safer for us - we've had a relatively easy experience in our world. I wonder though, how it will prepare us to take care of the future generations?
Okay dancer - stop rambling and off to work :)
I didn't do such a great job over the weekend with my nutrition and workout goals but heck - its a new week :)
B and I had an interesting weekend. We spent most of the time together, just the two of us (heh, thinking of that Eminem song now). Last night we were going to have romantic "clean the basement" or "drywall the laundry room" night and then after making some progress, burn some of the wood from the laundry room up in the fireplace. Instead we had "redo the plumbing in the laundry room because the trap in the drain pipe is in the crawlspace and uninsulated thus causing water to freeze inside of it" night. I found this out when I heard water gushing up and out of the drain pipe from the kitchen - oops! It was funny, on our late trip to Home Depot the people in line in front of us were *also* buying pipe insulation and regular pink fiberglass stuff too.
I woke up to find pieces of fiberglass on my face this morning, odd (since I wasn't even putting the stuff in). B worked on the laundry area while I tackled cleaning part of the basement. God, I didn't know you could have so much dust and dirt in one area!
****
We checked out a really neat bookstore this weekend in Worcester which was CRAZY because they happened to be having a new age fair. http://www.tatnuck.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp was huge and had a great selection of all kinds of books. B picked up an autographed autobiography of Bruce Campbell ("Give me some Sugar, Baby") and a digital photography book. I refrained from buying anything since I'm still working on my "Soul of Sex" book, and, need to make sure I have enough money until payday for gas for the Saturn and other silly things. From there we headed to see Star Wars Episode II at the Imax Theater in Natick - vibrating seats!
Yesterday I went out to Groton to visit a friend - I haven't been in that town since I was in 6th grade and attending http://www.grotonwood.org/gwood/index.htm . I'm such a dummy, I never realized it was a religious camp (though I guess this would make sense, after all I was in Catholic School when I attended for a week in January). That place was so great - we had so many wonderful activities (like collecting mucky water and looking at the contained organisms under a microscope, and going out for late night nature walks lit only by the light of the moon and learning about the rods and cones in our eyes). It was sort of an "Outward Bound" type thing - like, with kids swinging on ropes between trees over big pits.
Their house is beautiful, and I also learned that horses are way bigger than I remember - its been a long time since I've been on one. And our bunnies REALLY like the timothy hay mix (though they were intimidated by the huge pile that we put on their "patio" area at first).
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Its Martin Luther King Day today. It always makes me remember of one of my old professor and great mentors stories of his experiences in Chicago with Dr. King in the 60's - he finished grad school the year King was assassinated. Its just fascinating the kinds of experiences that he had, and the wonderful people that he was able to be around.
I wonder, do we have any charismatic heroes of that scale today? I don't think my generation has seen as much that was historically significant. This may make things safer for us - we've had a relatively easy experience in our world. I wonder though, how it will prepare us to take care of the future generations?
Okay dancer - stop rambling and off to work :)
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Date: 2003-01-20 06:57 am (UTC)Yup,
Date: 2003-01-20 07:08 am (UTC)Our pipes are in good shape - except for this one that we installed last weekend. We were such dummies, not thinking that it would get cold having STANDING WATER in a plastic pipe that sits inside of the foundation :)
Frozen pipes can be very bad. If the ones inside the house freeze and burst, usually its bye-bye house :/ My dad had a customer that he was doing work for take off on vacation and not leave a phone number to reach him at. They guy's furnace was completely empty of oil but the oil company wouldn't authorize my dad to order and pay for a delivery. My dad somehow found the homeowner's sister who somehow was able to authorize it (they never did find the guy on vacation).
This was right before Xmas (the guy left without paying my Dad for a huge job, turning a dirt basement into an apartment) - it wasn't a fun winter that year :)
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Date: 2003-01-20 06:59 am (UTC)hooray!
oh! we want you to come back so we can cook for you. ;-)
Yes,
Date: 2003-01-20 07:05 am (UTC)Yes, though it was kind of funny - at first it was almost like they were scared of it (I wonder if they smelled the horse and found it odd, or something). I picked out a HUGE handful for them which they ate in no time flat (and it was really cute to watch them jumping over the pile trying to find the best angle to eat.
"oh! we want you to come back so we can cook for you. ;-)"
Hee hee, no complaining from me :) Thanks for having us over, it was lovely (and that tea was very good - B was actually actively into it, and he's usually not much of an active tea person).
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Date: 2003-01-20 06:59 am (UTC)I don't think my generation has seen as much that was historically significant.
while we may not have someone on the scale of Martin Luther King -- who could be considered a modern prophet -- we witnessed something else very important, although it was our parents generation that executed it: the fall of Soviet communism. marxism is admirable in some ways (although crackpot in others), but soviet communism was the antithesis of what Marx advocated, and was terrible for the people who lived under it -- socially and economically. the former Soviet states and former Eastern Bloc are undergoing a lot of chaos, but finally seem to be moving to a system which is actually beneficial for its members. in another few decades, i think we'll see something amazing. and it wouldn't have happened without the united states, and to a lesser degree, western europe, quite literally spending the Soviet Union into the ground, causing the collapse of an inefficient, corrupt system which cared nothing for human rights.
democracy 1, totalitarian oligarchy 0.
Tatnuck
Date: 2003-01-20 07:10 am (UTC)I was really impressed with their discount books - so many of them and a huge variety of topics. I really wanted to try something in their restaurant but the place was a zoo, so we'll probably head out there some Friday night or something to poke around and grab dinner.
And they had cool freaky staff too - they complimented Brian on his bunny suit t-shirt :)
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Date: 2003-01-20 09:00 am (UTC)Grotonwood
Date: 2003-01-20 11:50 am (UTC)Perhaps - unless it was religious based but did non-religious stuff too? I have no idea, I don't remember anything religious about the experience. It would be odd though for it to be there for so many years, and all of a sudden become a Baptist-run organization . . .
Now when YOU went, did they do the earthy-crunchy thing about reducing food waste and actually measure all the stuff uneaten on your plates? It was interesting, but kind of gross (all remnants were scraped into a big bucket which was weighed). BadAndy went their too - but he didn't have that experience at all :)
Re: Grotonwood
Date: 2003-01-20 12:19 pm (UTC)