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2001 News:
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December 30, 2001
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Tess's Birthday was yesterday. We had a low-key party here at home with the kids.
Later Tess and I are going to go look for a mountain bike for her.
Yesterday, we saw Lord of the Rings. I read the books back in high school (20 years ago)
and I knew even then that these movies would be made. This first movie was excellent. It was very true
to the books in important matters. They did skip several things that would have confused the
audience (Tom Bombadil) or slow things down (walking from The Shire to Bree). The effects were
great as expected. I did notice some strange looking lighting in several special effects shots.
Some of the characters would look washed out (almost black and white) in certain scenes.
My only other criticism is that the Councel of Elrond scene was too short. They should
have introduced all the characters. As it is, it took me a while to figure out who was who.
It would have made relationships easier for the audience to follow and would have given
more weight to the scene.
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December 25, 2001
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Here is a partial list of the things we racked up this Christmas:
Kyle:
Razor Scooter
Home Depot Tool Box
Dinosaur Educational CD ROM
Movies
Polaroid Sticker Camera
Bingo Game
Blow Paint
Clothes
Space Shuttle Educational Space Game
Spiderman Backpack
Desk and Chair
Large Star Wars Action Figures
Batman Action Figures
Toy Guitar
Coin Bank
Large Buzz Lightyear Action Figure
Buzz Lightyear Costume
Calculator Watch
Spy Hearing Goggles
Nicole:
Play Grocery Store
Play Makeup Table
Play Nursery
Clothes
Toy Telephone
Baby Dolls
Mickey and Mini Mouse Dolls
Easy Bake Oven
Easy Bake Mixer
Little Mermaid Costume
Snow White Costume
Tess:
Cooking Stuff
Unmentionables (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean)
Scott:
Mountain Bike
Some DVDs
Clothes
Tea Pot
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December 24, 2001 - (This entry was added 8/24/08 - copied from a notebook)
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While Kyle watched my putting up the Christmas tree, he said:
So when you have enough toys and you don't want Santa Clause to bring you any more toys
you can start hitting your sister, right?
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December 20, 2001
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My new web site goes live. This site is now hosted at my home on a DSL line. It runs on a RedHat
Linux platform with Apache and Tomcat. This site is implemented entirely in JSP and uses custom tag library
I developed especially for it.
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December 14, 2001
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December 11, 2001
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I drank a few bottles of my beer today. I think I used too much water, because it's a little
weak. It's very drinkable though, so I don't think I'll toss it.
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November 29, 2001
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I stayed up late bottling beer. The beer has to sit in the bottles for another 2 weeks
before I get to see how it turned out. Making beer turns out to be a lot of work.
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Thanksgiving 2001
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We had a low key, but very nice Thanksgiving Day. We stayed here at home at did
not have any company this year. The day after Thanksgiving, we put up the tree
and the rest of the Christmas decorations.
I also started brewing some beer with the beer kit that Tess gave me for my Birthday.
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November 20, 2001
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For my Birthday, Tess staged a fondu dinner. It was very nice. She gave me a beer making kit.
I've never made beer before, so this should be interesting.
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November 17, 2001
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For my Birthday, Tess planned a weekend on lake Hartwell. We stayed in a very cosy cabin and watched
the the Leonids meter shower early Sunday morning. It was quite a show. Saturday and Sunday we tried
to fish with the kids, but the fish showed no interest.
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