40 years ago, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve at St Nicholas – 430PM family service, 9PM Lessons, Carols, and Eucharist. Â I have to be in Elk Grove by 8pm for rehearsal before the 9pm service at St Nicholas, but don’t get off work until 5pm. It’ll make for a LONG, cold, snowy night, but it’ll be wonderful if we can pull it off, as we’ve worked on some of this music for months. The highlight for me is probably John Rutter’s “What Sweeter Music,” but we’re also doing some old, rarely heard Christmas hymns…
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This one is even more woo-woo than usual for Utah: Saying he wanted to go see his mother for Christmas, a man tried to drive away in a South Salt Lake fire engine, according to police. The man also is accused of assaulting the firefighters who tried to stop him from stealing the $500,000 vehicle. The episode occurred about 11:30 a.m. Monday. Via Man tries to steal fire engine to go home for holidays, police say – Salt Lake Tribune
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Now WordPress 2.7… does what 2.5 did. Actually, a plugin called MiniPosts2 has been updated so that it behaves more like it did on the 2.5 edit screen. This makes it a lot quicker and easier to do “asides” again.
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Wot’s it doin’? Restin’! Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Roast Turkey Tenderloin By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 21 Dec ’08, 7.07pm CST PST Wot’s it doin’? Restin’! Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Chicagoans, please STFU about yesterday’s snowstorm. Try driving in a hilly or mountainous place first. Example 1: Seattle, where steep hills and the occasional rare but icy snowfall do not make for a fun time driving. But their trip home for the holidays nearly turned tragic Friday when two charter buses carrying 80 students slid down a steep ice-covered Seattle street and crashed through a guardrail 20 feet above Interstate 5. The front wheels of one bus ended up dangling over the freeway. “We were all screaming,” said 16-year-old Alex Hammell of Bothell, who was aboard the second bus. “I…
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Ah, Eugene. I loved going to school there, as it was so organic and green, with a population high in altruists and granola eating next-gen hippies. But even in that idyllic little Eden at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, there are suspicious, mean people who think you’re up to no good if you offer to do something nice for them. Like old ladies, mall security types, and cops: EUGENE, Ore. — All they wanted to do was change the world, one random act of kindness at a time. Instead, they were met with furrowed brows, questioned by Eugene…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: New Snow Boots By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 18 Dec ’08, 6.57pm CST PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Last night’s snow (or as I originally typo-ed, slow), dumped only about 4 inches on suburban streets in the area, but the traffic was horrendous and there were enough minor accidents to put corks in all the bottlenecks. And due to the way the east-west arterials around here are blocked by large tracts of parkland or shopping malls, there’s only a few ways to get between work and home. If there’s bad weather, or traffic, everything gets choked off at one of two places. I started out pissed, as I had a late “hit” call where someone needed an exchange…
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Just an hour or so ago, I finished reading[amazon-product text=”The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie” type=”text”]159102594X[/amazon-product], and had to get my husband David’s help so that I could do a proper review. The book, in paperback, is an attractive, hefty size for someone like me that doesn’t like wimpy little short books about heroes, rogues, and adventure. The cover art alone made me want to pick it up and look at it; it’s made to look like a tattered old leatherbound volume, stained with blood and God knows what else. It looks like it’s been through the wars and back.…
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Too bad for the New York hotel that sent this very nice basket of holiday treats that I’m no longer a hotel group agent. But it’s lovely! And I’ll take most of this to Holy Moly tomorrow. A true standing ovation! An overstuffed willow basket holds Elsa’s Story orange butter cookies, Almondina original almond biscuits, Zabar’s cinnamon rugelach, Zabar’s chocolate babka, Zabar’s cinnamon babka, Delancey cinnamon raisin rugelach, Zabar’s black and white cookies, Erica’s apricot-raspberry cookies, Beth’s ginger cookies, Dancing Deer Baking Co. lemon cookies, and Walkers short bread petticoat tails. Via Zabar’s Broadway Bakery Basket-Kosher – Gift Basket