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Finally got the last bit we’ve been waiting on for the big package for Terra’s parents 🙂 Sure hope we can get it done and send tomorrow.

My radio must be broke. There’s yodelling coming from it.

This. RT @BarbaraLMoore: Lately it seems that all my mental notes are written in disappearing ink.

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 12/17 is "Edward Scissorhands" http://fb.me/CLEYzgh0

Looking forward to the day I can successfully teach Wesley to juggle.

Single Boiler Espresso Machines: Temperature Surfing by SeattleCoffeeGear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLOdifkfrU

RT @PSLifeStyle: New Post: Official PlayStation App Coming to Android and iPhone http://bit.ly/gU5f18

Sigh… I’m thinking tomorrow’s slumber party night will require snarfing down Fruity Pebbles until I barf. Yeah… Good times.

.@don_rivers yeah, I didn’t read the article before I rt’d it. Pretty pathetic excuse for an app.

@don_rivers No way, man! I saw her first! Besides, she doesn’t like geeky types! Oh. Wait. D’OH!!!

So the internet went out, then my phone was fully offline for a few minutes. Is this the end??? #88310 #alamogordo #bajabroadband #verizon

RT @don_rivers: Baja Broadband is Spanish for "inferior broadband". How do you have an outage for an hour (so far)?

Oh my. RT @realjerimiah: Major #qwest outage in southern NM, #alamogordo, #tularosa, #ruidoso, #mescalero

Talking from limited knowledge but when someone says "Qwest outage", couldn’t we be talking backbone issue?

Well, I for one, welcome our new overlords 😉 RT @don_rivers: A communications disruption can mean only one thing. Invasion. 🙂

RT @realjerimiah: #qwest outage in Southern NM. #lascruces, #alamogordo, and #ruidoso areas http://bit.ly/gc4Qop OH rumor ETR of 7 PM MST

Dayim! RT @don_rivers: 911 service is down for much of the state of NM. Just heard it on police scanner.

As I feared, we can’t use a debit card anywhere. Man, EVERYTHING is down! Admittedly, I didn’t think this sort of thing was possible.

People say "He’s so precious – don’t you wish he’d stay that age forever?" Actually, I’d prefer he was old enough to take out the trash.

Put "cloudcroft fire" into youtube to see some local tv coverage.

Awww, I took out my camera and Wesley ran over to the bar chair, jumped up on it and said "ok, ready!" (see my facebook pics yesterday)

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 12/14 is "The Road Warrior" http://fb.me/xLvJU8nd (yesterday was Mad Max, btw)

Interesting article in Barista mag mentions Starbucks creating a world of latte drinkers because milk is more expensive than beans.

@don_rivers yeah, it’s been, oh, i’d say 20 mins or so.

Ok, wesley now has a little tv, dvd player, and gamecube in his room. So, xmas will include a stack of dvd’s and games for him 🙂

(mom contributed the tv, the gamecube is mine, the dvd player was Terra’s. He will borrow dvd’s from us until xmas.)

I’m am not a huge fan of kids having tv’s and stuff in their rooms, becoming couch tater tots – so this stuff will be mostly for his spn.

And, btw, we do not get tv, cable, satellite or any form of broadcast stuff, so all he will have is carefully selected stuff.

Wesley first movie in his room: Star Wars. His first time seeing it. He actually stood and cheered when the Death Star exploded.

Yo wey yo … Hom va rey … Yo wey ra … Ja ruum Brunnen-G

According to @streamingsoonv2 Withnail & I will hit Netflix InstantWatch on 12/20

@MicheleSims1 http://support.twitter.com/articles/64986-how-to-report-spam-on-twitter

Sheesh. Toook out my nice Sony DSLR and don’t remember how to work the thing. I guess it’s been a long time since I used it.

Oh, this is bad 🙁 Downtown Cloudcroft fire http://cloudcroftwebcam.com (handhelds try dial-up link) [via @MicheleSims1]

Info and updates… Twitter Search: Cloudcroft http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cloudcroft

This just gets worse. RT @don_rivers: The blue just collapsed?

RT @don_rivers: WTF. FYI @KOB4, an old fashioned wooden downtown main street is not a "strip mall"

Thanks! 🙂 RT @FyrsydeChat: Here is a Google street view pre-fire. http://goo.gl/maps/5ufq #cloudcroft

Hm. Come to find out jelly beans are another thing that taste very different after not having smoked for a month. (Has it been that long?)

I have no idea how many hours I’ve spent on Amazon the last few days, trying to find just the right little fondue pot for the sitting room.

Ohhhh, the weather outside is beautiful – ’cause iiii live innnn New Mexico 🙂 (no blizzards, earthquakes, hurricanes – perfect)

Happiness is the press pot timer beeping 😉 http://flic.kr/p/91ks9Z

All I want for Christmas is a Spice Girl.

RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 12/12 is "To Kill a Mockingbird" http://fb.me/KcmqFLxh

Forensic spill investigator is one of my skills as a daddy.

1974’s Black Christmas is turning out to be a nearly perfect spn junk food movie. (it even has Kier Dullea in it.(?!))

(Black Christmas is on Neflix InstantWatch if you want a slasher flick set at Christmas time.)

WHA?? RT @PSLifeStyle: New Post: PS3.5: Sony Patent Shows Plans To Increase PS3’s Power With External Processor http://bit.ly/fcZNIM

Paul Haggis’ Crash was our xmas movie tonight. On my list of films I cannot live without. Here’s Ebert – http://bit.ly/d9QhN9

Why did we never think before to get take-out burgers from Chili’s for spn? With some Murphy’s Irish Stout? Hm. Price, probably.

O.M.G. LED display, even. ProVari Variable Voltage Electronic Cigarette http://www.provape.com/ProVari-Variable-Voltage-p/provari.htm

@CoffeeAdventure Because it’s there!

.@CoffeeAdventure I love the art&science of making coffee so most coffee I drink is probably a side-effect of loving to craft it 😉

@CoffeeAdventure I just quit smoking a month ago, so now everything I make tastes hardly recognizable to me so it’s like starting over……

@CoffeeAdventure …so, it’s I’m even trying different water. Just in case.

@CoffeeAdventure I’ve done various spring waters over the years (and do a lot of descaling) but I am sort of resetting with some RO for now

@CoffeeAdventure I’m trying to go to the simplest of as many variables as possible then start working up/better again.

@CoffeeAdventure BUT I’m a big fan of good water and tell people all the time it’s at least 95% of the coffee, so it’s where one must begin

@CoffeeAdventure (but, i’m not plumbed in or anything – i use bottled but very picky. In this town, Fuji’s about the best I can get.)

@CoffeeAdventure (I’m indefinitely but not permanently stuck in a tiny town in middle of nowhere, not ABQ (Albuquerque, NM) at this time)

@CoffeeAdventure btw, pleezdameetcha http://www.flickr.com/photos/insidious_plots/sets/72157621688607726/ I’m a, uh, seasoned veteran 😛

"Baby, It’s Cold Outside" is so exquisite, yet I’ve never heard a version as good as the song itself. I complain EVERY year.

And every year I say I’m gonna do a blog post, with all my complaints in detail, with examples. Someday I actually will.

(Yes, these are the sorts of little nagging things that plague the unquiet mind of christopher 😛 #royalwe )

.@don_rivers Coincidentally, that’s been my fave version the last couple years (never saw the movie, assume you mean Zooey D & Leon Redbone)

RT @sween: I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. Told Daddy. Now I get *two* Christmases!

Wow. Westboro ("baptist church") has people on twitter now? Yikes.

RT @Rachelrt: Just how much trouble can an almost 16 year old get into? Im pretty sure my son is trying his hardest find out

She never drinks the water; makes you order french champagne.

5v vaping some nhaler.com high voltage pralines & cream – tha bomb! 🙂 Watching Scrooged, wondering how someone can drink Stoli and Tab.

So, Aronofsky didn’t write Black Swan. Hrm. Not necessarily a death sentence. But, we’ve waited how long for a directed AND wrote from him?

"One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film." – Stanley Kubrick, 1999.

RT @streamingsoonv2: Netflix makes deal with Disney/ABC to expand streaming offerings: http://wapo.st/eGDxOu

RT @ABQChristopher "People who drink wine from magnums are just plain happier" http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/magnum-opus