Ooops, I meant orangutan news.
Month: January 2008
Health care spending / life expectancy
This is a very interesting chart. I do not know if it is true.
Migraine
Had a migraine – a really weird one – most of the day yesterday and now I just feel ‘distinctly odd.’ And with a day of intense work in prospect, how pleasant. There’s other stuff going on which is far from pleasant, but not suitable for exposition. Let the record show that I am continuing to plumb the depths of my ignorance, stupidity and personal weaknesses in new and cringe-making ways. Or that might just be the migraine talking. Must think of something cheerful… oh, the cafeteria at work is back in operation today! That’s always a happy thought.
I made no resolutions this year. It should be a much less disappointing January.
Happy New Year
Well, that was a simply glorious evening. Mike and Heather turned up about 9:30 so we had an actual “There are more than two family molecules here” partay. I didn’t know and Jarmo didn’t either that both he and I had invited Mike – and Katie got into the action and got on the phone with him as well.
I got there about seven thirty, all choked because nothing was open so I could pick up more supplies. I watched a family game of Texas Hold’em, which I had never seen before. Kids arrived about half an hour later, and that’s when the trouble really started; we made the discovery that our hosts had Guitar Hero II and Dance Dance Revolution.
If the downstairs neighbour had been in (he’s a bouncer, so one can imagine how he was occupied last night) he’d have pounded every one of our heads in, seriatim. As it was I danced so much my back actually feels better today. Then Mike broke out the Guitar Hero III and the duels/cooperative mode play began! It was amazing watching Keith and Eric thrash out some SOS by the Police, and then he and Mike did Warpigs. THEN THE STANNOMANCY.
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Below is all five of them – for the three of us. Keith and Katie both got twins! Keith’s were almost perfectly even and symmetrical – except one was a boy and one was a girl which you will note if you look closely at the top two – and Katie got a dragon and a whale – the bottom two. Mine’s the moon curve in the middle…
Below, Katie’s
Below mine, held by Katie to give you an idea of the size. It was the largest of the evening by a wide margin, which might or might not have had something to do with going last. Jarmo’s was the only one with ‘money’ in it.
Below, Keith and Mike play co-op on Warpigs.
And here’s Katie, wearing my 2008 as a Goth Tiara….
We took off about 1:30 – I drove the kids home and cleared the door of my apartment just after 2. Then I phoned Katie to say, “yes mom I’m home”.