2006 Wrap Up

When I kept my diaries on paper, the entry for December 31 would always contain a statistical summary of the year so that I had it as a quick reference. I don’t see why I shouldn’t continue that in electronic form. So what follows is packed with a summary of things from this year. If [...]

An extra dose of vitamin C…

Ugh! A little while ago, I started to get that feeling. You know, it starts behind your eyes and it’s usually a symptom of a fever or a cold. I’ve had my flu shots and I’ve been getting plenty of vitamin C. Maybe I need an extra dose? Usually, when I get a cold, it [...]

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The low-talker

I’m just back from getting my hair cut and the experience was like something out of Seinfeld. My hair turned out just fine, but the person cutting it was a low-talker. And I mean a really low-talker. In fact, during the entire time she was cutting my hair, I understood exactly two things that she [...]

Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate 2007

Once again, it looks like I’m going to miss the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate. In 2007, the debate will take place on Monday, March 26, the day before my birthday. However, on Sunday, March 25, I will be getting back from Orlando, Florida (returning from Norm and Vicky’s wedding) and there is just no way [...]

Quiet morning

I treated myself to breakfast at I-Hop, and though the restaurant was pretty crowded, the roads were surprisingly empty. Breakfast was good, except the orange juice, which was not freshly squeezed and which seemed to have more sugar than juice in it. It was sickly-sweet! After breakfast I headed over to the grocery store to [...]

365

This post represents 365 consecutive days of my posting at least one entry to my LiveJournal and that, of course, means I have completed a year’s worth of entries. I’d say I’ve done a pretty good job at recording the ins-and-outs of my life over the last year. In some ways, there is more detail [...]

Saturday night wrap up

I’m getting ready to get into bed and read for a while. I was fairly productive today. I got my passport. I wrote some thank you notes (although I still have more to write). I got some work done on the book collection database, including a cataloging of all of my SCIENCE FICTION AGE magazines. [...]

Workout #22 (Arms & shoulders)

I headed to the gym just after 4 PM (an hour after my 3 PM “snack”) and I was surprised that it was as crowded as it was. Last time I was at the Greenbelt gym on a Saturday afternoon it was pretty empty. After the usual 5 minute warmup, I did an arms and [...]

SCIENCE FICTION AGE

One thing missing from my book collection database are all of my science fiction magazines. I have had subscriptions to the Big Three for several years now. I also have a fair amount of old magazines (the May 1950 issues of ASTOUNDING, for instance, which contains the original “Dianetics” essay by L. Ron Hubbard). But [...]

Passport

I have my passport in my hand! It is my first passport and the picture of me on the data page ranks with the worst passport photos on record. Nevertheless, I have it now, and just before the year comes to a close too. As it turns out, my passport is good through Christmas Day, [...]

Long day

I was up at 4:30 yesterday morning (since it is now past midnight) and it is now approaching 2 AM and I’m about ready to get to bed. I’ve been up for more than 21 hours and it’s my longest day in quite a while. I was working on my book database this evening, and [...]

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