Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Actually, it's lovely, but it's that time of year again... Christmas!

See, I get two Christmases a year, generally. One, when I visit family and open my presents, and two, when my mother actually ships them. By the time she gets around to it, enough months have passed that I tend to forget what the &*%(#% I got, and it's a surprise all over again.

(Recent years, I've been shipping it myself before leaving town, to prevent this sort of thing, but this last year I had the 72hr whirlwind tour, and ran out of time.)

So now I have my winter clothes! Um. Er. (Could be worse, one year I got a lovely wool cableknit sweater. I finally received it in June. In NC.)

Yay! Where's my f--silly eggnog?

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Actually, it's lovely, but it's that time of year again... Christmas!

See, I get two Christmases a year, generally. One, when I visit family and open my presents, and two, when my mother actually ships them. By the time she gets around to it, enough months have passed that I tend to forget what the &*%(#% I got, and it's a surprise all over again.

(Recent years, I've been shipping it myself before leaving town, to prevent this sort of thing, but this last year I had the 72hr whirlwind tour, and ran out of time.)

So now I have my winter clothes! Um. Er. (Could be worse, one year I got a lovely wool cableknit sweater. I finally received it in June. In NC.)

Yay! Where's my f--silly eggnog?

Scaring myself...

ATD!; OK AT&M1 ERR

jason0x_21 and badger are barred from guessing what that stands for. (In my defense, I did have to look up one of the codes.)

Scaring myself...

ATD!; OK AT&M1 ERR

jason0x_21 and badger are barred from guessing what that stands for. (In my defense, I did have to look up one of the codes.)

Scanned files, redux

Screw the CD-Rs. Grabbed a 4GB SanDisk cruzer micro USB stick for $30. Removed f--silly* annoying U3 firmware. Will keep updated, and store in safety deposit box. Nice little archive, and many boxes worth of space are freed up in the house. At the current rate, 10 full large file storage boxes will fit on that little stick.

* Just for you, gwyneira. :D

Scanned files, redux

Screw the CD-Rs. Grabbed a 4GB SanDisk cruzer micro USB stick for $30. Removed f--silly* annoying U3 firmware. Will keep updated, and store in safety deposit box. Nice little archive, and many boxes worth of space are freed up in the house. At the current rate, 10 full large file storage boxes will fit on that little stick.

* Just for you, gwyneira. :D

Cemetery walk

Took a walk around the Sparta Cemetery tonight on the way home. It's the oldest cemetery in Ossining, right on the border (or over, depending on which map you look at) of Scarborough. Some very nice, very neat marker stones in there. The oldest few are brown, and look more like sandstone, but have proven more durable than the marble ones that start appearing in the 1780s. (In fact, it looks an awful lot like the stone used in... brownstone townhouses. Hmm.) There was a brick walled area (wall about 2.5' high) that had some of the oldest markers on it, late 1760s to early 1770s. One of the markers was missing, and the bricks were shattered. Curious, I got closer and found a plaque that read (roughly):

The marker for Who de Who was pierced by a cannonball shot from the British warship H.M.S. Fuddernutter, Umpteenth day of Whenever, 1780. This plaque erected 1830.

Okay, that's kinda cool. Here's the site:

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Zoom out a bit to see the river just to the west.

Cemetery walk

Took a walk around the Sparta Cemetery tonight on the way home. It's the oldest cemetery in Ossining, right on the border (or over, depending on which map you look at) of Scarborough. Some very nice, very neat marker stones in there. The oldest few are brown, and look more like sandstone, but have proven more durable than the marble ones that start appearing in the 1780s. (In fact, it looks an awful lot like the stone used in... brownstone townhouses. Hmm.) There was a brick walled area (wall about 2.5' high) that had some of the oldest markers on it, late 1760s to early 1770s. One of the markers was missing, and the bricks were shattered. Curious, I got closer and found a plaque that read (roughly):

The marker for Who de Who was pierced by a cannonball shot from the British warship H.M.S. Fuddernutter, Umpteenth day of Whenever, 1780. This plaque erected 1830.

Okay, that's kinda cool. Here's the site:


View Larger Map

Zoom out a bit to see the river just to the west.