Ellipses...

I went to buy a hat today and then left the store without the hat... My new home office doesn't have enough surface space for me, I hope the next home office has more... Nobody uses AIM anymore... Pretty much turned my clock upside down this week, definitely not early to bed, early to rise... Got a few things to do for work, should get to doing them... How on Earth do I make these magazines stop coming, I've canceled them and yet they keep showing up... If we'd gone East for the holiday we'dve been traveling home today, but probably not I think... That Family Guy "It's A Trap" video? Wait and stream it on Netflix. They phoned it in a little bit... Thinking about retaking the greenpage. I miss being up to speed... Really it is too bad that the eco-friendly counter top options are so much more expensive than the less environmentally friendly ones... I thought by this point in the break I would have been to the movies like half a dozen times and yet so far zero movies... We still have five cats. It looked for a while like for sure it would be 4, but its still 5... I wonder if the guy plowed the driveway in Chicago... Using the Wii and streaming Netflix to finally see the Dollhouse episodes I missed. Fox really fumbled that one... The Steelers game on Thursday night and the holiday have totally munged up my calendar sense... I told USITT I would do a poster session on project assignments for student TDs, now I'm not so sure it was a good idea... The P key on my keyboard is now intermittent, makes for some percussive typing... I'm not sure I understand why running 24 hours of Star Wars makes sense for the holiday, but then I don't understand a lot of decisions surrounding the holiday season - but I thought the green Knicks jerseys were cute...

More Semester Review Photos

Here's the last two days, all hodgepodge...

Semester Reviews - Thursday & Friday

So here are pics form the first two days of semester reviews.



Thursday was "Grad Thursday" again. We're getting to the point in grad enrollment that such a thing might not be possible any longer. Friday was hodgepodge.

Looks like the shoe pic snuck in after all.

No Shoes This Year

We're mid crits right now. I'll post some pictures here later. We're not doing the shoe thing, but if we were these would have made today's cut.

From Fall10SemesterReviews

Nice kicks.

Not Helping

This is the Men's Room at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas:


Some things just aren't nice.

I See You

Ever get the feeling that the cable people are spying on you through the cable box?


Maybe they are.

Late Night Ellipses...

Even though I laughed a lot, I think maybe the Futurama Holiday Special could have been better... We're out of this house next week, I sure hope we can get everything packed in time... Sarah Palin posted a bunch of Obama gaffs, doesn't take into account he had a national reputation as a thinker first. Maybe if she spent more time preparing and less time defending... People just disappear like they were never there in Harry Potter movies, one line and they're gone... We're still trying to sell a car, give away a cat, and sell a house in Chicago if you know anyone who might be interested... Is there really a reason to put a microwave oven in a box when you are moving??? I hope Tom Delay gets life without parole... Oh, and probably giving away two yard-a-saurs too now that I think of it... Really this ought to be a post about what I am thankful for, but I guess that would be about two hours too late... Monday I have to switch all the utilities. I better get my voicejail shoes on... We went to a restaurant for Thanksgiving, first time I've done that. Aside from not being able to immediately retire to the couch I think it's a pretty good plan... I am going to miss this house I think... My dad was unable to go through the airport magnetometers the last few years of his life. I wonder if that would have lined him up for enhanced pat downs these days... I've got my sister and brother in law's holiday gifts figured out, now I have to start on my wife's side of things... Still hoping the new Tron won't suck. Pray with me... If I can cancel my parking at work when I move, it'll be like giving myself a raise - even during a salary freeze... I am considering retaking the green page after the first of the year. It's just not the same without me...

Because I am Inherently Lazy

Don't Do This

It's not like you are actually going to get around to sorting it. I have a file in my office that says "pending." Pretty much once a year I empty it into the trash. I don't remember what I found in this box, but I bet I didn't keep it.

Matt Dickleman

Here's hoping my old friend from across the street has a Google Alert on his name.

In a continuing effort to re-energize posting here I will post another picture.


I took this over the summer while working on Dad's house. It's a picture of one of my best childhood friend's home - or at least the space where his home used to be. The people next door bought the property some time back to enlarge their yard, then the bottom fell out, the money dried up and the lot went up for sale. It was a little sad.