Month: December 2013

  • Merry Christmas

    Gift of the MagiIn the tiny apartment on the Lower East Side,The beautiful Della combed her long hair,And thought about Christmas and bitterly cried,For they had no money, no money to spare.So little money, and Christmas was near,And Jim worked so hard and for so little pay.He’d grown discouraged, her darling, her dearShe must give…

  • Wonderful

    Just weighed in today, and I’m at 184.6, total loss of 67.2 and a total of 10.6 to go to my goal weight of 174.  This comic has been traveling around in my WW book since it was in the paper, and I decided I needed a more permanent copy.The Argyle Sweater via Minneapolis Star-Tribune,…

  • Christmas Eve

    A nice quiet commute into the mostly dead office today.  Of course the -14F temperature probably helps some too.

  • Festivus

    Happy Festivus!  I hope you experience many Festivus miracles.

  • History

    History books begin and end, but the events they describe do not.R. G. Collingwood

  • Playing with fire!

    The guys in the Forestry Division Fire unit at work, and my brother the fire chief are gonna love this one…WUMO by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler via Star-Tribune, 2013-12-21

  • Miracle Rice

    During our Project Manager’s community of practice meeting on Wednesday, we did a White Elephant gift exchange, and one of the prizes was a bag of Miracle Rice, which was described during the meeting as, “Guilt free, calorie free, soy free, and flavor free”; although Shelly did say that she had received it from her…