Category: Personal

As I was adding the photos for the blog post below to Flickr today, I realized I was bumping up against some of the limits on my free account. So I’ve upgraded to a Flickr Pro account. For less than $25 a year, it’s quite the bargain.

Now I have to decide if I’ll move everything that’s currently in the on-site Gallery over to Flickr. The main issue would be having to retype all the photo titles and descriptions; with a few hundred pix involved, that would be quite a drag.

I did put some shots online that never made it into the current gallery, like the photos of my trip to Utah in 2002.

Well, we’ve been here a month already and the place is still not fully set up. But the living dining room are fit to be shown. So here’s a partial tour of the place (click through to Flickr for full sized pix if you really care).

Half of the living / dining room.

The other half. Tommy’s up on the table, wondering where all the yummy food we had yesterday went to.

This room’s 4th wall is all window & sliding doors, taking you out onto our terace. The terrace itself only has a bike and a storage crate on it currently, but here’s the view looking more or less west:

And looking east, you see this:

There’s little things about the place that I’m not thrilled with, like how small the kitchen is and the lack of water pressure in some faucets, but overall we’re quite happy here.

This will be the first holiday season since 2001 that I’m NOT working retail. For that, among many other things, I am extremely thankful.

I’m not so thankful for the Economics exam that I have in a few hours, though. More later.

UPDATE: Exam over. Typos in blog post corrected. Time to relax & enjoy myself for a hour or so. After that, I need to start cooking for tomorrow!

You never know what you’re going to find in a morning’s click through a chain of links. Today’s unexpected find was Vassar Blogs.

Looking at the list of fellow Vassar bloggers, I realized I vaguely remember a guy named Taegan in my class, but until today I had no clue he was THE Taegan Goddard of Political Wire.

The list is highly skewed to the Class of 2000 and younger, but it’s still a neat little resource for us Vassar folk. I hope the list continues to grow.

One of the straps tore off my school knapsack today. Considering how heavy my laptop is, I’m not too surprised; it was bound to happen sooner or later. But I’m bummed because it was my PalmSource knapsack, and it’ll be a long time before I see nice schwag like that again.

Busy week; exam tomorrow, case study & presentation Wednesday, another exam next week, other projects due on the horizon.

In the meantime, Digby‘s got a few good ones — taking on habeas corpus, Wal-Mart and Target, not to mention the lies of GW Bush.

Plus of course all the usual suspects in the blogroll.

And if you’re a cat person, head on over to NTodd‘s place; one of his kitties is dying & I think he’d appreciate some well-wishers.