JC - Technology and Stuff

• Enjoying a Boxing evening brandy in the calm before the storm… #
• Reading: Celebrity Twitter photos of the year - http://bit.ly/7T62fL #
• Cooked a ham this morning & now the turkey is just about ready & the roasted veggies are in the oven. It just seems to be cook, cook cook! #
• 40 pints of Black Raven Trickster IPA tapped and ready for tomorrow’s party. First come, first served!!! #
• #QOTD: I’m as pure as the driven slush #
• Excellent Christmas dinner w/Steve & Amanda. Tournedos Rossini, followed by homemade chocolate cake / Christmas pudding w/Efeste wine. Yum!! #
• #QOTD: While shepherds washed their socks by night all seated round a tub. The angel of the lord came down and gave them all a scrub… #
• Visited JJs with the kids. Nachos, chicken strips. Life is good. Is it really Christmas tomorrow? Guess I’d better wrap some presents… #
• Yummy. Sausage Rolls cooked & tested. It’s turning out 2B a foodmas already. Can’t wait ’til the kids leave brandy & mince pies out 4 Santa! #
• pulling my email, facebook, and twitter together with threadsy. here’s an invite good for 10 people. http://bit.ly/5cWOxk #
• …and the eating-fest has begun #
• #QOTD: Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock / Now they are all on their knees / …Hoping it might be so #
• Kids fed with Spaghetti Bolognese & already curled up in their PJs. They’re hoping this is the last night of jet lag… #
• No more work ’til Monday…. Yay!!!! #
• #QOTD: This world is not my home; I’m just passing through… #
• #QOTD: I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays #
• Avatar 3D is not a movie: It’s a whole new experience in the cinema. Quite simply I was blown away & will b going back 2 watch it again WOW! #
• #QOTD: The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves #
• Hooray, hooray, the kids arrive today! #
• #QOTD: You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there #

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• What happened to the day? Too many things done. And now it’s birthday party time for friends @ #3LionsPub #
• Been busy non-stop since 6:30 this morning. soup is cooking @ home & I’ve just stopped off for a quick pint @ #BlackRaven #
• #QOTD: All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough #
• Off to play bacon delivery man to the bartender at the Black Raven #
• #QOTD: To err is human. To make a complete mess up you definitely need a computer #
• Check out my ElfYourself video: http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/CCH0kPcdQxdOxDfx <- this is truly hilarious #
• Getting excited… 3 more days ’til the kids get here. Better than a visit from Santa #
• Last of the Christmas shopping complete (well, nearly!). All that remains now is food to buy and lots of eating and merriment!! #
• #QOTD: When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are #
• #QOTD: I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? #
• Cards written & sorted. Newsletters printed. Now to settle down & catch up on a few DVR’ed programs… #
• I am running so far behind… I’m only getting to do the Christmas cards tonight. I doubt they’ll make it to England in time… #
• #QOTD: Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege #
• Watched Invictus last night - brilliant movie. Tough choice between it and Up for movie of the year… #
• #QOTD: Someday we’ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car #
• As much as I’m loathe to say it, I think Office 2010 could be a winner… (especially OneNote) #
• #QOTD: Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first #

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• 35F - We have officially thawed out. Hooray! #
• So glad it’s 50% warmer this morning than yesterday… 20F versus 13F… wow! feel that heat! #
• #QOTD: On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time #
• #QOTD: What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth #
• Deleted then re-added the Twitter application on Facebook. Maybe that will fix it… #
• Well, it looks like the link between Facebook and Twitter is busted. It’ll probably get fixed later and all my posts will be reposted! #
• Hooray - the 2009 Christmas Newsletter is completed!! #
• #QOTD: Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec #
• http://twitpic.com/sx6q0 - Part of my Christmas themed decorated office cubicle #
• Time to break off from the diet. Final count 33.5lbs lost. My gorgeous wife bought me new jeans today with 3″ less waist. Yay!! Success!! #
• #QOTD: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself #
• This is ridiculous… 16F outside. How am I supposed to get the motivation to go to my car & scrape it when it’s this cold? Brrrr… #
• #QOTD: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change #
• If U want good Facebook challenge, select “English (Upside Down)” as your language - click on bottom of screen… It certainly makes U think #
• http://twitpic.com/slugy - Part of my Christmas themed office cubicle #
• #QOTD: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom #
• Busy weekend over… Watched Alabama squash Florida; collected our wonderful wine allotment from Efeste; put up the Christmas tree… #
• #QOTD: Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life #

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• A L A B A M A ! Roll Tide. BCS here we come… #
• Today is the real BCS championship. #1 Florida v #2 Alabama. Texas get a chance to get whooped by the winner later. ROLL TIDE….. #
• #QOTD: Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television #
• #QOTD: A good listener is usually thinking about something else #
• Chopped collard greens, garlic, salt & pepper - all cooked up in the frying pan with a little olive oil - absolutely scrumptious! #
• Decorated my office cube all festively. This has separated the ‘bah humbugs’ from the ‘jolly happy people’! #
• #QOTD: When you oversleep. Life seems to get all backed up a little… #
• Muy cold, frosty & foggy outside. I hate the last few days of summer in Seattle #
• #QOTD: There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through… There needs to be a monster truck option #
• #QOTD: The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky #
• #QOTD: At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide #
• Time for bed, said Zebedee… #
• Sync your files online and across computers with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://bit.ly/6FVrm4 #
• Looking to bump up my Facebook family. Are you on Facebook? If so, join me at: http://facebook.com/jcx27 <- spread the news… #
• Trying out a different Mexican restaurant 4 dinner 2nite w/my lovely wife… Then it’s off 2 the BlackRaven 2 collect our Cheeky Boy scarves #
• #QOTD: Imagination is more important than knowledge… <- I think… #
• I think I’ve finally got Puppy Linux set up just the way I want it. Firefox, network printer, auto loads all Windows shares. It’s a keeper.. #
• #QOTD: He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed #

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