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On Being Social

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:33:40 -0500

My husband and I have similar temperaments when it comes to what we want to do in our "off" time. We are inclined to stay at home and relax with our books/computers before cooking dinner than go out and do something. We're homebodies, I suppose, a...

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Culture QotW: Can't Wait to Read...

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:59:01 -0500

What soon-to-be-published book are you excited to read? Neil Gaiman's books are always weird, wonderful, and a special pleasure to sit down and attempt not to plow through.

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COD pr0n

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:33:03 -0500

Don't worry, it has nothing to do with fish (even if Troy McClure might prefer otherwise). I was spending some quality time browsing YouTube for videos of the plane my husband will be flying, and I felt the need to share them with (or inflict them...

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QotD: I'm Not Telling

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:05:29 -0500

What question do you hate being asked? It's really a set of two questions that go together: "How long are you going to be here, and where are you going next?" The answer to each is a great big "I don't know!" While we might have our guesses and...

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You Think Your Commodore 64 is Really Neato

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:51:37 -0500

I have extremely fond memories of my dad's Commodore 64. In fact, it's not like those memories are exactly distant, since he still keeps it up and running. it seems that others have the same penchant for keeping old technology chugging along, bec...

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Cable and CODs

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:05:52 -0500

A vital step in the process of getting settled in the new house has been completed: we have high-speed Internet access. Compared to the hoops of fire we had to jump through to accomplish this back in Texas, getting connected here was a breeze. Sco...

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And All We Had To Do Was Sign Over Our Firstborn

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:33:52 -0500

We are homeowners! This home that we own is filled with boxes in various states of unpackitude and I may or may not go crazy--in a very happy way--before we get everything situated. We won't have reliable Internet access until next week sometime, ...

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QotD: Rise & Shine!

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:49:03 -0500

What are your first thoughts upon waking? Submitted by Cher Cabula. This morning, my first groggy thought was something along the lines of, "Mmph, I'm cold." The second thought was about how magnificent that chill felt, considering that it was s...

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Good Thing I Didn't Bet on Cool Stuff Happening

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:15:19 -0500

Boy, what a weekend. The horse I hoped would win the Triple Crown came in dead last and the air conditioning crapped out last night, probably as a delayed result of the power outage earlier in the week. Today's projected high temperature: 99° Fahr...

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QotD: Homes Sweet Homes

nobody@vox.com(Elisheva Chana) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:53:34 -0500

How many houses have you lived in? How is where you live now different from where you grew up? If we're not counting college residence halls, the number currently stands at four. I'm about to make it five when M and I move into our very first re...

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