Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
Susan Wu tagged me and I am supposed to come up with 5 things you don’t know about me. The problem is that with all the interviews and whatnot, all sorts of things have already been said. Usually, I can pull out stuff that folks don’t expect, like “I’m fluent in Spanish” or “I have a degree in poetry,” but nowadays, this stuff is stuff all you regular blog readers know.
So this is hard. Um.
Before I forget — Happy Holidays, everyone. Feel free to use the comment thread to wish each other good cheer, or argue, whatever. 😉
As part of my relentless and pointless self-examination (all intended to bring you a Better Blog(tm), of course), I’m curious as to which posts you liked the most this year.
Besides, that way I can skate by with a very slight blog post today while not looking like I am ignoring the blog altogether.
I’m curious for nominations in the following categories:
Although we haven’t done it in years, we have a tradition derived from my father: when we have a holiday party, we ask each guest to bring not a gift, but an ornament for the Christmas tree. In this way, our tree has become sort of a living history of holidays in the family.
With the minor downside that we cannot fucking remember who gave us what.
In any case, this naturally enough means that we have a nicely eclectic tree with not one generic shiny ball on it. Instead, we have alot of handicrafts, joke ornaments (we seem to have lost the condom that someone brought one year), and of, course, tributes to geekdom.
I thought I’d share a few.
Friends of mine just had a baby (congrats, Scot!). As I was composing my generic email with congratulations and advice, it occurred to me that I have written this same email a dozen times now, and should just post it. 🙂 So here it is (written for a boy baby because that’s what Scot and Anita had):
Congratulations!
My advice:
Sleep whenever the baby sleeps. You will be tempted to catch up on housework when the baby is sleeping, or catch up on work, or read email, or whatever. This way lies doom. Sleep whenever the baby sleeps. This is the single most important piece of advice I can give you.
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