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Good-time, party-time weather?

New Years Eve, Chicago Style Originally uploaded by crgreene No, I don’t think so either. So I have opted to stay in and watch all three LOTR flicks (extended editions) as my NYE07. I am well supplied with starch, chocolate, and wine. I think I will be OK. 🙂 More

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Bathtime

Check this out. Pretty cool. Thanks for the tip, HJ.

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Well, folks, it’s an historic evening here in the cg household. No, not because I’m at home on a Saturday night; no, I didn’t cook anything special; and, unfortunately I didn’t win buckets of money or wake up to discover that eight pounds had magically melted

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A Country Lane

A Country Lane Originally uploaded by crgreene What with all the snow and ice we are getting in the Midwest this week, I thought I bit o’ green might not be out of order. I’ll try and post more later on about the weekend …

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Home again, home again, jiggity jig

And [Samwise Gamgee] went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor on his lap. He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,

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Words to the wise

A few lessons learned on this trip to Ireland while they’re fresh in my mind, as I sit here enjoying the free wireless in the Shannon Airport departures area … * Do not on any account forget your travel clock or a watch. No room I stayed in had an actual

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Luxury

What is luxury? I begin to think it must be relative. I’m going to stop with the travelogue postings just for the moment and fast forward to something I’ve been mulling over this afternoon. It’s only in the last couple or three years where I have been

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How slow?

How slow? Originally uploaded by crgreene I love this! I was so glad I got to go back on foot and document. A lot of information is made available via the pavement. I saw one series, rather like the Burma Shave ads, ‘SLOW’ ‘SLOWER’ ‘VERY SLOW’ … but this takes the

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the Tig Coili

the tig coili Originally uploaded by Brian Douglas The guy who took this fancied up the color a bit, but it is bright red. You can see Taaffe’s there in the center right of the background.

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Sláinte

On Sunday afternoon, following my chat with the singular garbageman (doesn’t that sound like a Sherlock Holmes story? ‘The Case of the Singular Garbageman’), I walked along to the Cathedral and past there to the University of Galway, then back around towards the Old Spanish Arch, a relic of

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Shelter

Looking out from the High Court colonnade Originally uploaded by crgreene Picking up my story with Sunday, which would be the third day of my trip … Having slept much better on Saturday night than on Friday, I felt quite a bit more cheery on Sunday (not to say that I

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High tide

High tide Originally uploaded by crgreene So, picking up where I left off … Left Ennis fairly early on Saturday morning, and headed out towards the coast. The country was all cows and farms and stone walls, after a bit anyway – there seems to be quite a lot of new construction

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Stay to your left

Here I am at the truly lovely Westport Plaza hotel … which I actually categorized immediately as a ‘Peter & Conrad’ hotel (it’s a compliment, either way you take it)… which thoughtfully provides broadband. Ahh. I’ll be here until I depart to head back down to the Shannon airport,

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Phoning it in, part 2

Well, here I sit in terminal 1 of Heathrow airport, which bears a striking similarity in general atmosphere to pre-renovation Midway, except there are a lot more people wandering around with pints in their fists. Also, in my brief acquaintance with English authorities, I find their signage to be quite

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Phoning it in, part 1

Well, folks, it’s time to hit the road. I’ll be leaving work shortly, and thence off to Ireland for a week. I’ll try and finish out NaBloPoMo tomorrow if it can be managed (hence the part one in the title here) … and one hopes for wireless (perhaps

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Pack It Up, Pack It In

Let me begin … Earlier this week I cooked up a bunch of red sauce with the idea that it would make tasty dinners every night … but I still have to eat tomorrow, and I am really really hungry tonight. The only logical solution, of course, was to go online to

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Grading

Yes, I’m out of ideas, mainly because the only thing I can think about right now are the twelve papers that must be graded tonight… and all the other things I would prefer to do. It may come as a surprise to some of my readers that I detest

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Time flies...

Being that it’s nearly December, you might expect – given the title of this post – a thoughtful rumination on another year, slowly marching to a close; perhaps, since it’s Monday, a newsy blurb about a busy day at work or some developments at the office; I might have finally

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Tis the Season

One month til Christmas, folks. Hard to believe, really … But, anyway, as far as I am concerned, the Christmas season begins the day after Thanksgiving, or a month before, whichever suits. You might ask, what does that mean for cg? * Christmas music can officially be played. (Yes, Peter, finally, I

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Chicago, city by the lake

I was flying into Chicago at night Watching the lake turn the sky into blue-green smoke The sun was setting to the left of the plane And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow In 27-D I was behind the wing, watching landscape roll out Like credits on a

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Friday Night Lights

I had planned to come home today, but here I sit, still in Indiana. I hadn’t packed the car yet, there was some running around and shopping to do yet today, and I also wanted to hang around to be able to see my grandmother who I hadn’t

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Giving Thanks, For Reals

As promised, I continue my long weekend of thankfulness, today For Reals. There is so much to be thankful for – I think I might actually make this a weekly feature, just to keep myself in the right frame of mind. So five things I am thankful for, taking this seriously.

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Happy Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown

I’ll post more later, but how about A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, eh? In three parts, from YouTube Part 1 (about nine minutes) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7sWimHpVgM&rel=1]

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Thanksgiving Eve...Or, Giving Thanks, the Technology Edition

Hard to believe it’s already time for Thanksgiving. In honor of that holiday, and also to give myself a workable theme for blogging this weekend, I am going to post five things I am thankful for, today through Sunday. Because that will add up to 25 things, they are

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Conundrum

I’ve been working on my web site for most of the afternoon and have once again reached a conundrum. I had originally envisioned certain functionality for the home page which is turning out to be sort of a hassle to implement (at least for me). Do I scrap that