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Movie: Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Wine: Chateau Des Clos Premieres Cotes de Blaye 2001
Pizza: Freschetta Ultra Thin Supreme

Yes, it's Thursday. But we're off to the Minnesota Orchestra tomorrow night, and with the storm we don't have dinner with Don & Margo (WANOLJ) tonight. So, tonight's date night!

Movie: Tivo catchup - The Dresden Files & Numbers
Wine: Columbia Crest Merlot 2001
Pizza: Bellatoria Ultra Thin Crust Chicken Fajita

Movie: Tivo catch-up - two episodes of The Dresden Files, Gryphon
Wine: Fish Eye Shiraz 2004
Pizza: California Pizza Kitchen Garlic Chicken

We went to a Minnesota Orchestra concert last night (Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody, some of Brahms' Hungarian Dances, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Festival Orchestra), so we're having pizza, etc. tonight

Movie: Tivo catch-up - Iron Chef America, Numbers
Wine: Jacob's Creek Shiraz Cabernet 2004
Pizza: Bellatoria Ultra Thin Crust Chicken Fajita (a new pizza by us, we'll try their other variations)

Movie: Tivo Catch-up - starting with Mega Disasters: Asteroid Impact
Wine: Columbia-Crest Merlot 2001
Pizza: California Pizza Kitchen Crispy Thin Crust Sweet & Spicy Italian Sausage

Movie: Wedding Wars
Wine: Banrock Station White Shiraz 2005
Pizza: DiGiorno Thin Crispy Crust Grilled Chicken & Vegetable

It's been a nice quiet birthday. I snacked all day on left-over spiral-slice ham and Red Velvet cake, got caught up on computer stuff, cuddled dogs - it was a nice day.

Movie: The Great Escape
Wine: Banrock Station Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2004
Pizza: Connie's Thincrust Handmade Super

Movie: Cars
Wine: Columbia Crest Chardonnay 2002
Pizza: California Pizza Kitchen BBQ Chicken

kosmickitten, bernesemntdog and AJ (our grand-son) joined us for the movie. AJ will be spending the night here.

Last week was what we refer to as 'vacation in place' - what with this and that, between October 1st and the end of the year I had 7 days of time off coming, and it's all 'use it or loose it'. I took three days off last week, and I'm taking four days off the first week in December.

The 14th was the release event for The Sharing Knife, Volume 1: Beguilement at Dreamhaven, followed by dinner out with LMB listies and dessert at my house. There are now three sample chapters up at EOS!

The 15th & 16th were quiet days at home - got a bunch of laundry done.

The 17th I went to the doctor for a diabetes follow-up - I need to get more exercise and loose some weight.

The 18th was shopping, followed by hosting gaming in the evening.

The 19th iraunink and I helped kosmickitten paint bernesemntdog's kitchen, and took her to lunch at the original Keys. Then the three of us went out to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. iraunink and I wanted to look at Mountain Ash trees (according to her research, the only tree from the rowan family that grows in our area) - we decided they were nice, but wouldn't work where we're going to be wanting to put a tree. We'll probably get a ginkgo when the time comes. kosmickitten wanted to look at fruit trees to see about replacing a dying maple, so we did that too. bernesemntdog treated us to dinner, then iraunink and I went home, bernesemntdog & kosmickitten went on their merry way.

The 20th iraunink woke up with a bump on her foot - it had felt like a cramp the evening before, now it definitely hurt! She got a doctor's appointment, the doctor x-rayed and diagnosed soft-tissue injury, prescribing rest, elevation, and cold. Came home from the doctor's, iraunink took a nap and I did some more laundry, and some computer stuff. That evening, we went out to dinner with pmrabble, followed by a Minnesota Orchestra concert.

The 21st we went to JoAnn's and got the other half of the fabric iraunink need to make a cloth bag for AJ - she's hoping to have it done in time for him to use for trick-or-treating this Halloween. Then we went to Convivial for the afternoon and evening.

And today I'm back at work!

Movie: Tivo catch-up (Eureka, some Stargate), possibly followed by 1776*
Wine: Chateau Grand Champ Bordeaux 2003
Pizza: DiGiorno Thin Crispy Crust Supreme Pizza


* - we got a copy of 1776 - The Musical at Costco yesterday!