Until, that is, I’m asked to stay until nearly midnight to finish a project. (Spike<\/a>, I feel your pain.) Truthfully, I didn’t mind staying – I still collect fat overtime in my new position, and the project was important to the future existance of our program (and, not-so-indirectly, my future employment). But, and you-know-who<\/a> will back me up on this, we were planning to have The Sauce that night. So, not so much with those plans. (Maybe this week, sometime?) Also, I never want to be stuck in L Building until midnight again – it’s a normal cube-farm during the day, when there are people around, but at night…it’s just downright creepy.<\/p>\n Let’s see…what else has happened? Well, there was this<\/a>. (For the record, yes, I did go to the men’s room after the meal, but seeing as how I abhor public spectacles and the Happy-Clappy Birthday Song on my<\/i> birthday, under no circumstances did I say anything to the servers. Not that I was accused, but I thought I’d just mention.) And I’ve lost a handful of money at poker. (Pocket aces. I had pocket aces and got beat – by trip threes! UGH!) I haven’t had much of a chance to get to the movies – a situation I hope to correct over the forthcoming holiday break – more on that in a minute.<\/p>\n As mentioned elsewhere<\/a>, tonight we had our non-demoninational holiday celebration. (Chrismas? Hanukkah? Why choose? I had even suggested the traditional Festivus pole, but I was shot down.) As I felt like Cindi and I had started to bond, in a “kid and goofball uncle” kind of way, I got her (what I thought, anyway) would be a nice gift. As it turns out, to a one-year-old, an Eeyore<\/a> that talks, crawls, and plays music, is, in fact, the antichrist. When Darren posts the video, you’ll see what I mean. (I swear to Brak, I thought I was getting her something nice! I should have just given her a cardboard box filled with bubblewrap and crinkly tissue paper. She would have liked that.) 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<\/a>. Becca<\/a> comes home this week – she’s got a lot on her schedule, what with her sister being home too, and other various plans, but I figure I’ll at least be able to have coffee with her or something. I just have to make it through three more days of work, and then it’s vacation through the beginning of the new year – and that’s never a bad thing. I assume there will be poker at some point soon, because my luck’s due for a turnaround. (Pocket aces<\/i>, for chrissakes!!!) And we got out first snow of the year tonight – to hell with the “official” seasons, winter is here! Woot!<\/p>\n