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6 people + 1 late arrival
a kitchen bursting at the seams with food
Rock Band 2
a Magic Mic
2 bottles of champagne… er… sparkling wine made “methode champagnoise”
2 bottles of old vine zinfandel
1 bottle of ice wine
4 (or 5) bottles of beer
three quarters of a bottle of Italian limoncello
5 shots of some horrible Icelandic liquor reminiscent of [...]

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We’re hosting Thanksgiving dinner again this year.  I think we’re gonna pull it off without a hitch, especially since I’ve been prepping and cooking since this afternoon (Wednesday).  Seven people, including Bill and me, will be gorging here tomorrow.  I’m cooking everything except for the Yorkshire pudding, which is Bill’s assignment along with assembling the [...]

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Do you like getting reminded of your age?
Come this Friday, I’ll have received yet another unmistakable sign that I am getting ever older.
My younger brother is getting married. He and his fiancee are going to have a civil wedding at San Jose City Hall, and they have asked me to be the one and only [...]

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Day before Thanksgiving.
It was a relaxed day at work for the most part. In the morning we had training sessions, which were boring but not too bad. I thought that the cafeteria was going to be closed today, but thankfully it was open. I had carnitas from the Mexican station. The [...]

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Because my brother flaked last weekend, today I went out with my mom, my brother, and my brother’s girlfriend to celebrate my mom’s birthday. We met up in Palo Alto at around 1:00 PM to start the day with a late lunch.
We wandered around downtown Palo Alto aimlessly, trying to figure out where to [...]

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My mom and I, along with Snorty McDoggelsson, went to my brother’s place in Elk Grove on Monday and stayed there till Tuesday. Elk Grove is a suburb of Sacramento, which should tell you that there’s really no there there because Sacramento itself is nothing to write home about. If it weren’t the [...]

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