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cellioFriday night: Shabbat services, and then to Ralph and Lori's party. It looks like we missed the neighbors and whatever relatives were there, but the friends and former coworkers were mostly still there. It was good to see the gang again, even if I did see many of them only last week at Larry's birthday party. Didn't get to talk to everyone as much as I'd like, but oh well. Deanna's hair lights were spiffy.
Saturday evening after havdalah and dinner at Zeb's (salmon in the salmon salad was a bit overcooked, the tomato bisque was excellent, and Dani spoke highly of the sausage lasagne), I headed over to Aya's Chanukah party. It was lots of fun, though not quite as musical as in past years. Rabbi Gibson and his family had to leave early (I think he flew to NY for our rabbi emeritus' funeral today), and Tom and Carol also left fairly early, which knocked out all our guitar players except for Bob, who was feeling self-conscious. (I don't know whether he's a beginner or out of practice.) Saw Norbert, a co-worker from Claritech who left during the layoffs. I think David wanted him but he quit to go work for Schwoo, which after the last few rounds of layoffs is down to about 15 people. Norbert is back at Claritech.
Saturday night: got mail from my shell provider saying they're going to move the main domain name (and thus web stuff). Email should be unaffected. Logged onto the new machine to explore and contemplate moving my mail so everything will be in one place, but reached no real conclusions. Same pine version, at least. Different flavor of Unix (openBSD instead of Solaris, IIRC). I'll defer the decision.
Sunday: boring chores (laundry and bill-paying). Another potluck dinner (local SCA household) that was fun. Steve brought smoked salmon; yum. Someone else brought really wonderful cheesecake. I took one look at the dessert table and decided I was *not* eating the meat. :-) Got home a bit too late to then head over to Ralph and Lori's for the remnants of Sunday dinner. Not that we would have eaten anyway (where would we put it?), but hanging out with folks is always fun.
Saturday evening after havdalah and dinner at Zeb's (salmon in the salmon salad was a bit overcooked, the tomato bisque was excellent, and Dani spoke highly of the sausage lasagne), I headed over to Aya's Chanukah party. It was lots of fun, though not quite as musical as in past years. Rabbi Gibson and his family had to leave early (I think he flew to NY for our rabbi emeritus' funeral today), and Tom and Carol also left fairly early, which knocked out all our guitar players except for Bob, who was feeling self-conscious. (I don't know whether he's a beginner or out of practice.) Saw Norbert, a co-worker from Claritech who left during the layoffs. I think David wanted him but he quit to go work for Schwoo, which after the last few rounds of layoffs is down to about 15 people. Norbert is back at Claritech.
Saturday night: got mail from my shell provider saying they're going to move the main domain name (and thus web stuff). Email should be unaffected. Logged onto the new machine to explore and contemplate moving my mail so everything will be in one place, but reached no real conclusions. Same pine version, at least. Different flavor of Unix (openBSD instead of Solaris, IIRC). I'll defer the decision.
Sunday: boring chores (laundry and bill-paying). Another potluck dinner (local SCA household) that was fun. Steve brought smoked salmon; yum. Someone else brought really wonderful cheesecake. I took one look at the dessert table and decided I was *not* eating the meat. :-) Got home a bit too late to then head over to Ralph and Lori's for the remnants of Sunday dinner. Not that we would have eaten anyway (where would we put it?), but hanging out with folks is always fun.