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  • Nancys day

    she got braces and read her book to the class. She got no feedback. One book was depressing… Fred has problems.

  • First “daily recap” post

    Jeanne and I were talking about how we have no idea what we did a year ago on any given day, and it’s time to start writing stuff down. So here we go.

    Today I:

    • Met some cool people in Lockport
    • Worked on a few projects
    • Ate a chicken wing
    • Drove to Canada on a picture-perfect evening
    • Taught Nancy how to mow the lawn
  • Chucky

    When I was very young, I spent a lot of time at the Steins house:
    View Larger Map Around the corner was a kid named Chucky. He was a little younger than Matt Stein and me, so we pushed him around. He was really weird. I don’t think his parents lived in that house; I think it was his grandparents or his uncle/aunt. There were lots of weird things about his house. First of all, we never went there through the front door. We always got there through the back, from Steins. It always seemed like we went through a forest to get there. The uncle/aunt/granparents never really knew if we were there or not, and they’d sometimes get mad at us when we popped up. A few things about Chucky’s house:

    • There was a garage in the back that we used as a club house.
    • We had a fight with the club from W. Milton St. I was in both clubs.
    • Chucky had some “land” in front of the garage, basically a 6’x5′ plot. He said his U/A/G gave it to him. He tried to grow shit on his land, we dug it up and he got mad.
    • Chucky’s UAGs were eccentric. They made a helium balloon in the house (not hydrogen, “it’s highly flammable!”). They taught me how to play chess. They had all kinds of knick-knacks, I think there was tons of war memorabilia.
    • Chucky had a little sister who bore the brunt of lots of teasing.
    • Chucky had very long, black hair but white skin. He looked like a vampire.

    “Let’s go to Chucky’s!!”

  • Looking for the ultimate makhani sauce recipe

    I seriously believe Makhani sauce is the best stuff you can eat on this planet. But it is incredibly hard to make. At least, that’s been my impression to date. I spent an afternoon constructing something verbatum from some website, and it sucked so bad I tossed the entire batch.

    So I’m done trying to make it. Anyone know where I can buy a TUB of the stuff??

  • Sabbatical list

    -learn base

    -learn python