I’m not a big party person, so New Year’s Eve holds no sway over me. I feel no obligation to party like it’s 1999. Chrissy and I usually sleep through the countdown. I think that we woke up briefly for it last year, just by happy coincidence, but then quickly passed out again afterwards. I think that I have an...
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Although Chrissy and I were both off from work for the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, it was no vacation. We were all very sick. Luckily, it wasn’t all at the same time. The day after Christmas, I turned up with the flu. It kicked in pretty hard after the “Shopping Since 5 AM So Don’t Wake...
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Chrissy and I look forward to the day after Christmas almost as much as the day after Thanksgiving. We wake up early every year to get fifty percent off of all the seasonal goods. You have to wake up early to get the good stuff, since there’s always a crowd of people waiting outside the store to scavenge before you. We were at...
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This was Aiden’s second Christmas, but only the first one where he was old enough to unwrap his own presents. There was a lot to unwrap. Aiden loves to play with MegaBlocks, so Santa brought him another 200 or so blocks. Some came in a helicopter carrier, some came in a bulldozer carrier, but most of them came in huge...
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We did send out a Christmas letter this year, but I wanted to post it to the web site anyway. Who knows, maybe somebody who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year? Click “Continue Reading” to read the 2007 Christmas Letter. Happy Holidays from the Wilson Family! We have...
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I’ve been keeping my web site at eDataRack for the last five years. It’s a pretty cheap hosting plan, only $40 a year, but there are tradeoffs in service. Up until last year, I was content with static pages and the occasional uploaded photo set. When I finally decided to set up some automation, getting the photo gallery...
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It’s official: Chrissy is pregnant again. We were keeping that under our hats for the last few weeks, but the cat is now out of the bag. I was hoping for supernatural confirmation from the psychic at the UChicagoTech Holiday Party TM, but we got the crappy psychic again and she didn’t call it. The “official”...
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I stumbled across this on YouTube while watching BioShock videos and had to share it. Somebody made a Big Daddy costume for Halloween, and a little girl was dressed up as a Little Sister to accompany him. Too...
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