• Yesterday at 04:52pm: Even two candidates seems to be too many for a debate. Healthy democracy.
• Today at 01:36pm: Today I got to visit the colo where s-mart's computers do their thing. White sterile room with whirring fans and air conditioners. brrrrr.

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Poughkeepsie train bridge during the winter. A place where it actually gets cold in the winter.

I went today.

I'm always so pleased with myself after shoveling the first snow storm from my driveway. By the time the second one comes along I am already tired of snow. At least that is the way it is in the Northeast. Today was one of those days that I am glad to be able to work from home. It looked like it was still coming down pretty hard at noonish, but I decided to start shoveling anyway, at least to make it easier to shovel for real when it stopped. However, while I was out there the flakes slowed, and then dissipated completely, and finally the sun came out. I took some photographs, but I am only going to post one because I was a dolt and was shooting with my digital set to 3200, so the quality sucks. Tonight I had dinner with Joe, Cicely and Brian. I'm going to miss Action Tuesday; mostly for the company though, and less for the TV.

Here is what a computer geek I am: while I was waiting to go over to brad's house for the Festivus last night I coded up a search engine for my web site using a SQL database and some perl. I don't really need one, I can grep for anything I want since I direct access to the files, and I don't get enough traffic to make it useful for anyone. It just seemed like an interesting thing to do. It may also have to do with the fact that in the winter months in New York, I don't really like to be outside when it's dark and cold.

See that little box up there by the twilight icon at the top of this page? Put in some text and type <ENTER> to find what you are looking for. For example, if you put "bradstock" in there you will find everything I have written about the annual back yard bash on my website.

I am going to go find something useful to do with myself.