Dec
21
Last Minute Dimmer Switch
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Season’s greetings, I bring you tidings of great joy. For unto you this day a Dimmer Switch has been written:
The Week Before Christmas
This year, I’ll admit that I didn’t wait until the 23rd to start shopping (I think it was the 18th). I do plan on completing my shopping tasks tomorrow, although I [...]
Dec
18
New Job Update
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The new job has been going well thus far. Of course, I’ve only been there two days and the majority of my time has been spent watching training videos and signing all the necessary paperwork. But judging from what I’ve gleaned from the staff this sounds like I’ve made the right decision on [...]
Dec
17
A New Beginning
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Today is a new beginning of sorts as it’s the start of a new job. Unlike my previous job where I sat in a small office all day by myself with hardly any contact with the outside world besides email, the new job has actual coworkers and employees and such. Obviously it’s [...]
Dec
6
Latest Dimmer Switch
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This week’s offering of the Dimmer Switch expands on my earlier post about the Gavle Goat (current status: still not burned). Go forth and learn more about the history and reasons why the goat is doomed with the threat of fiery death each year:
Goodness, Gracious, Great (Swedish) Goats of Fire!
Oh, did I mention that [...]
Dec
5
Deck The Roads
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In honor of the first snowfall of the season and the jubulant sounds of children and teachers shouting praise and hosannas for the first snow induced school closing of the year, I present for you a song I wrote about the joys of driving in the snow. It’s called Deck the Roads and is [...]
Dec
3
Goat’s current status: Not burnt down.
From the site:
The strange history of the Gävle Goat began in 1966. A man named Stig Gavlén came up with the idea of making a giant version of the traditional Swedish Christmas goat of straw. The aim was to attract customers to the the shops and restaurants in the [...]
Dec
3
Omphaloskepsis
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There’s been quite a lot of Omphaloskepsis around these parts lately, and while a little navel gazing from time to time isn’t a bad thing, it doesn’t exactly make for riveting reading material. Perhaps it would if my life were more exciting or if I were more famous, but there’s not much I can [...]