Yes yes, it’s been some time since I wrote last, and a lot has happened since then, but I have good reason for not writing, I assure you.
First of all, Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it. Christmas in this house (family, rather) doesn’t have much of a religious meaning, but we [...]

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OK, OK, I realize that I had a fairly big typo in yesterday’s blog entry. Yesterday was Christmas Eve eve eve, not Christmas Eve eve. TODAY is Christmas Eve eve, and not Christmas Eve by yesterday’s Christmas Eve eve reckoning. Does that make sense?
Yesterday also marked the end of my Christmas shopping, [...]

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Amaziningly enough, the Mustang has a tendency that seems unlike most mechanical objects I’m acquainted with, in that when something goes wrong it’s not a sudden, immediate failure, but a drawn-out process with a slow degradation. I speak, of course, of the latest in a long line of problems with the Mustang, the most [...]

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Yes, I have typos. That’s only natural from the speed the I type and the inability to do a spellcheck. I’m not too concerned about that. I’ve been instructed from time to time about repeated misspellings of words (such as my previous spelling of definitely that I eventually fixed), but I have [...]

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As I’m sure so many of you are interested in, the other day I went to McMenamins #17! Yes, I was so recently at #16, but it got upped to 17 as I drove down Macadam in Portland, saw the McMenamins I was going to head to next–the Fulton Pub–and I realized that I [...]

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As I was sitting in the Oregon Reportory Singers Christmas concert this afternoon, I suddenly realized that today would be the first day of Christmas, if I understand to song correctly. It’s the twelve days leading up to Christmas, right? Or up to Christmas Eve? I don’t know. But if it’s [...]

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Sixteen McMenamins restaurants/breweries and counting. Today marked the grand reopening of the Rock Creek tavern out here in the Hillsboro area relatively near my Mom’s house, and my Dad and I had been planning on attending for about two months or so.
The Rock Creek Tavern is one of the most interesting pubs that the [...]

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I actually wanted to post an update yesterday, but my day just got away from me and I never got a chance to sit down and write. That’s petty interesting considering I spent most of the day in front of my computer anyway, still getting things up and running the way I like them. [...]

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Ahhhh…a crisp December night, and here I am lying in the living room in front of a roaring fire with a hot cup of coffee.
As much as I can, at least. Lying in the living room is certainly true, but “roaring” isn’t a good adjective to describe the fire. Since we have a [...]

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I was told at one point in my life that I looked like an Alex and not an Andrew. I thought that was humorous, so when I needed an alter-ego at several times I said my name was Alex. That little nugget in the back of my head had a two-fold joke, however, [...]

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Victory! Sweet victory is mine! Forever in the annals of history will December 4th, 2003 be known as V-C Day. That’s right: Victory-Computer. I finally triumphed over my Dad’s new computer that’s been causing troubles for close to three months now. I swapped out or disabled literally every component in [...]

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Hmmm, another month ahead of me, so full of possibilities. Entry #251, too. Not bad over the course of four years, if I do say so myself. I imagine myself using the old layout that I had at the very beginning of the site, constantly trying to archive things manually and make [...]

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