{"id":506,"date":"2003-01-05T03:45:22","date_gmt":"2003-01-05T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2003-01-05T03:45:22","modified_gmt":"2003-01-05T10:45:22","slug":"one-twothreefour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"One, Twothreefour&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I could lie and say &#8220;I&#8217;ve been meaning to post an update, but I&#8217;ve been too busy.&#8221;  Well, it&#8217;s not a complete lie &#8211; I have been pretty busy.  But still, I haven&#8217;t really posted much since before the holidays.  So here&#8217;s an update on stuff.  And things.  (Because it&#8217;s fun when there are things.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveandtwenty.com\/ursasine\/\">Becca<\/a> was home, and good times were had.  Well, when I allowed myself to have a good time.  Or when I wasn&#8217;t too cheap to go with the group.  Or&#8230;well, never mind.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-run.com\/\">Bryan<\/a> was home as well.  There was chili.  There was hot chocolate.  There was some yummy angel food concoction.  It was good.<br \/>\n&#8211; When did they change the name of Newark Airport to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.com\/aviation\/ewrframe.HTM\">Newark <b>LIBERTY<\/b> International Airport<\/a>?  And why didn&#8217;t I get the memo?<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveandbusters.com\/\">Dave &amp; Busters<\/a> is more fun when there aren&#8217;t as many people there.  (Read:  NOT New Year&#8217;s Eve.)  Also, I thought they used to kick all the minors out at 10&#8230;maybe I made that last part up.  *shrug*  On the upside, I have discovered that I am pretty damn good at both pool and Skeeball.  Also, the fireworks over the Delaware River were very impressive.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Catch Me If You Can&#8221; and &#8220;Gangs of New York&#8221; are both excellent movies.  I would write more detailed reviews, but&#8230;just go see the movies, if you haven&#8217;t already.  They&#8217;re both worthwhile.  (Also, John Williams&#8217; score for &#8220;Catch&#8230;&#8221; is outstanding.)<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Knawck knawck.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Go f**k yaaself.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; You miss a day, you miss a whole bunch of in-jokes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Jen has no qualms about hitting me upside the head.<br \/>\n&#8211; I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that, in future, I should just take one immense chunk of time off from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ets.org\">work<\/a> rather than trying to break it up.  Between 12\/20 and 1\/16, I&#8217;ll have only worked 4 days.  But trying to get up for those work days&#8230;man, I thought algebra was hard&#8230;you just can&#8217;t gear up for the work thing when you know you&#8217;re just taking more days off.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of taking days off&#8230;I don&#8217;t want to tempt fate by posting this here, but&#8230;I&#8217;m going to London.  Yeah, I know, I&#8217;ve said that before in this space, but this time, come hell, high water, snow, sleet, or natural disaster, I am getting on that plane Tuesday night.  Of course, I have no plans on taking my laptop with me, so updates for the next couple of weeks are going to be few and far between, unless I can find an internet cafe convenient to my hotel.  If I <i>can<\/i>, I fully plan to post details of my journey.  I also plan on taking copious digital photos while there, but those won&#8217;t see the light of day until I get back.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I could lie and say &#8220;I&#8217;ve been meaning to post an update, but I&#8217;ve been too busy.&#8221; Well, it&#8217;s not a complete lie &#8211; I have been pretty busy. But still, I haven&#8217;t really posted much since before the holidays. So here&#8217;s an update on stuff. And things. 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