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[Nov. 17th, 2009|06:17 pm] |
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Having just gotten back from the grocery store, I'm happy to report that I am, in fact, old enough to legally buy vinegar. |
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[Nov. 2nd, 2009|06:50 pm] |
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I have acquired a copy of The Joy of Cooking, the delightful older edition which includes illustrated directions on skinning a squirrel. Also included are recipes for such animals as muskrat, beaver, raccoon, wild boar... |
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[Oct. 11th, 2009|11:46 pm] |
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To unpack your library after a year of separation is a joyful experience. |
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[Oct. 1st, 2009|01:07 am] |
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I just got internet access again; I moved last week. I'm now living in Alexandria. This is the first time in my life I have not lived in a county, interestingly enough. |
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[Sep. 1st, 2009|09:50 pm] |
( Administrative computer security issues; unexciting. )
I have decided to start a consortium of space nerds who have mostly-unrelated-to-space day jobs, who design Martian colony ships in their spare time (we're talking the sort that could transport a colony from Earth to Mars in the 2050 time frame.) I've been missing design, you see. Anyone want in?
Though I did design an interesting space launch vehicle during a meeting at work about the new performance review system: The manned portion is a disk, saucer-shaped, about five meters thick at the center, with a circular living space inside. Attached to it is a secondary hull, a cylinder, with a rocket engine on the back, with two pylons coming off the side, each with a cylindrical booster rocket on the end. Those who are good with visualization might catch the reference here. (: |
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[Aug. 24th, 2009|07:13 pm] |
Now I can't get rid of the old insurance.
I really loathe voice-recognition systems on phone trees. If I want to talk, I would find a human. I don't talk to machines. If you want feedback, especially on a limited selection of items, tell me which button to push.
And sending me through five minutes of this crap only to reveal that the office is closed is very irritating. So now, I'll have to call from work tomorrow to terminate* this insurance.
*with extreme prejudice, mind you. |
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[Jul. 20th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
Secrecy gets annoying. But, amusing story from orientation:
We were being sworn in to our clearance level. We were told to read this paragraph, and if we agreed, good, but if we disagreed, that would be fine, but they'd call security to escort us from the building. We asked, and apparently this has happened before.
How does someone go through the whole months-long security clearance process, and then turn back upon finding out we have to keep state secrets secret?
There will likely be no further posts about work. |
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[Jul. 17th, 2009|12:28 am] |
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Other news that is good to have at last about work: it's going to be in DC. I'm quite pleased; it's right off the Green Line, which also goes relatively close to church. I'm thinking of looking for a place to live in Columbia Heights, in Washington, or somewhere like that (which would be in easy biking distance of at least four Orthodox parishes that I know of, two of which I visit every now and then anyway.) I could try to live in Greenbelt/Beltsville/College Park again, which would be bikeable to church and trainable to work, but I'm not sure that it's worth it, since I doubt I'll still be in DC in a year and a half -- everything is being moved down to Northern Virginia. The DC -> Ft. Belvoir commute isn't awful, I think, though it's not spectacular either. Probably the easiest thing to do would be to live in Alexandria and stay there, but I'm hoping my father's mother's sister's daughter's son (some degree of cousin with some level of removal), who is starting the University of Maryland, might be able to room with me or something, which would make Columbia Heights optimal. |
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[Jul. 14th, 2009|05:51 pm] |
I start my government career on Monday. They have now told me what division I'll be in -- at least, what the acronym is. I still don't know what the letters stand for...
Completely unrelated, I saw today on the NY subway, an ad for becoming a monk. |
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|06:28 pm] |
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Apparently, today is John Calvin's 500th birthday. I suppose that was inevitable. |
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[May. 30th, 2009|12:28 pm] |
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'Twas the day before the Sunday of the Fathers of Nicaea, and some Jehovah's Witnesses come to my door. As usual, when they come, I was in a state of partial undress, and hadn't prayed yet today to boot (I slept late and was lazy), so I didn't answer the door, but after they left, I remembered what we're singing tonight, so I pulled out my Pentecostarion and bellowed out the stichera after them. |
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| Temporary Job (finally) |
[May. 26th, 2009|09:45 pm] |
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Pending approval by their mother, I've been hired to babysit my three youngest cousins three days a week in New York City, while my uncle is at work. |
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| My bike trip to La Plata |
[May. 20th, 2009|07:22 pm] |
View Bike trip to La Plata in a larger map
Ending point was Daina's house, which I did not mark.
Now, I start planning the trip to Charlottesville, probably the week after next, if I can. |
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[May. 16th, 2009|10:40 pm] |
I realized tonight on the subway that I despise drunk people to a degree which is probably an affront to Christian charity.
Sorry, drunk people. |
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[May. 12th, 2009|12:48 am] |
If anyone has an idea on how to make money biking, let me know.
Meanwhile, I need to come up with a few hundred dollars to get through the next couple months.
Nonetheless, I plan to take some bike trips over the next few months. I think I'll start out with a trip to La Plata (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dainasplashes, would this be ok?), as a warm-up, and then try making it out to Charlottesville (especially since I haven't seen p_trekkie in a while). Maybe after that, another trip of a few days, and then I'd like to try riding to New York, perhaps stopping in on rest_in_thee and pastorlenny on the way there, and staying with my uncle (and hopefully cousins) in New York.
The more concrete I get these plans, the greater the chance my security clearance will finish going through before they get going. (Which I wouldn't complain about either.) |
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[May. 8th, 2009|12:28 pm] |
I highly recommend the new Star Trek movie to anyone who is neither epileptic nor particularly prone to motion sickness.
(I liked it all, except that the movie makers seem to think that all space battles must be stroboscopic. Don't they realize that if my eyes hurt when I watch it, I won't be appreciating their special effects? Also, what's wrong with holding a camera still while people are talking in front of it?) |
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