Q: What’s the easiest way to get a Christmas tree out of a second story apartment?

moving

double the Ryder, double the fun...

Christmas Review, part 1

I'm sorry, dear people who read my blog (all two of you). You've been sorely neglected. To make up for it, I present a Christmas Review, in parts!

First up, a set of (homemade) Christmas ornaments for my Dad:


Ingredients: styrofoam ball, Christmassy fabrics, ribbon


Dad proudly models his new ornaments. I'm sure they'll look equally nice on our tree.

Spellcheck

When I type my last name, it comes up as a spelling error. No big surprise there. However:

Suggested correction: "brontosaur"

Maybe I should change my last name.

Happy 4th Birthday to my gmail account

Four years ago yesterday, I got my first Gmail account. Back then it was really cool to have Gmail, because you could only get in by invitation, and each person only had a few invitations to give away. I still think it's really cool, even though it's not that exciting anymore. I was trying to figure out how long I have had any email address, and I don't know exactly, but I did find something that says I last updated my yahoo profile in 2000. So it's been at least 8 years since I've had an email address, but I would guess it's been even longer than that, since we first got internet at our house 10 or so years ago. Now I wonder how many emails I've sent over my life... Assuming I've had an email address for 8 years, that's 2920 days. I would guess I send, on average over those 8 years, 2-3 emails per day. Currently it's a lot more than that, but I'm sure at the beginning it was not that much. So that brings us to the grand total of 7300 emails. Interesting. And probably completely inaccurate.