What's New?
December 2006
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12/28/2006 - ShanghaiTrip200612 - The Great Trip to Shanghai to visit Buttercup!
November 2006
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11/02/2006 - R.I.P. Snowy. I am again a ferretless wonder.
October 2006
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10/18/2006 - Bat Boy sighted in the NY subway (according to The Weekly World News)
August 2006
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08/02/2006 - BeijingTrip200608 - The Great Trip to Beijing to visit Buttercup!
April 2006
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04/02/2006 - Buttercup left for Beijing. She's happy and doing well there, studying fashion design. She's even on AIM now and then.
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04/24/2006 - 04/26/2006 - Outage! Sorry about that. My colo provider had a hardware failure, and I pulled the box out of their facility to do some upgrades (which didn't go well). Then they neglected to call me about putting the box back, and are dragging their feet about getting it back in on 4/26. I rarely have problems with them. But when I do, they utterly suck at keeping me in the loop.
Wow! Slacking there.
September 2005
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09/23/2005 - Buttercup got Lasik. No more glasses!
August 2005
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08/09/2005 - Elizabeth Grace Wright was born to Ginger and Jason Wright on Tuesday 8/9/05 at 8:08pm. I have no clue of her dimensions or parts count, though the picture web site describes the dimensions and other qualities of the pictures in excruciating detail:
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Pictures of Elizabeth. Congratulations Ginger and Jason!
July 2005
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07/08/2005 - Charlene Lynne Meador was born to Melinda and Mike Meador on Friday 7/8/05 at 5:58pm. She was 7 pounds 13.5 ounces, 21 inches long, and had the customary number of noses, fingers, and toes. Congratulations, Melinda and Mike!
Pictures of Charlene More Pictures of Charlene
May 2005
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05/24/2005 - Momentary outage of the wiki. This was due to a bonehead mistake on my part while attempting to set up a wiki for another hosted user. It's nowhere near ready yet, and there will undoubtedly be more boneheaded errors on my part as I go. Sorry in advance.
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05/20/2005 - Outage. Obscure-Reference, and the other sites it hosts had a connectivity outage for an hour or 2 today, but it's all better now. This was on the ISP's end.
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05/10/2005 - Buttercup's got braces!
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05/12/2005 - Buttercup gets the lowest conceivable fine on a reckless driving ticket. It pays to be cute!
April 2005
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04/27/2005 - RIP Holly. I'm down to one ferret, Snow White, who bites.
January 2005
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1/3/2005 - Can you believe it? Buttercup and I have been married a year already!
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1/18/2005 - Awesome news! Buttercup passed her road test and is now a licensed driver! Huzzah!
July 2004
On 7/2/2004, 13 people went to dinner at Champps in Reston, VA. Some of us were members of the Friday Night Group, an informal shooting group. The others were guests and family. 6 of us were open carrying handguns, as is legal in Virginia. There was an "incident" in which we were approached by some Fairfax County Police Officers in response to a call they received about armed people entering the restaurant. They investigated, as they were obliged to do, found no one doing anything illegal, and left.
Here is what the Washington Post had to say about it in their biased and innacurate fashion on 7/15/04: Washington Post Article. (Local Copy)
What do you know? NBC4 also has something now: NBC4 Article
And HERE is the thread about this on FreeRepublic.com. A friend who's a member posted my comments in post #82.
Perhaps this alarmist agitprop will cause some of the more lilly-livered anti-gun folks to stay out of Fairfax County. That would suit me fine. Perhaps they could move to DC, and enjoy the substantially higher crime rate. And if we could get them to cease meddling in Virginia and Fairfax politics, like a certain former first lady who isn't satisfied with carpetbagging in only one state at a time, Virginia would be a better place for it.
