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| 667.2 | Atypical weekend | COLORS::TARBET | | Sat Jan 23 1988 09:15 | 7 |
| I'm probably gonna do a museum this aft, and certainly will go to
Burns Night tonite (bein' th' guid scot tha' ah am) and listen to
the sweet singing of Jeannie Redpath and the beautiful fiddling of
Alasdair Fraser. (and then sinfully munch shortbread and maaaaaybe
even have a wee go at the dancin').
=maggie
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| 667.3 | the usual... | MEWVAX::AUGUSTINE | | Sat Jan 23 1988 12:41 | 11 |
| This weekend, I'm trying to recover from a rather intense week-long
class. My spouse's back is injured, so I need to do errands for
two -- load after load of laundry, shopping, cooking, running up
and down stairs to get things... (what's a nice feminist like me
doing in a place like this? oh well, at least i get treated well
when i'm sick). we were planning to see rampal tomorrow. his concert
was postponed, so perhaps we'll try a movie. oh yes. i'd like to
catch up on my reading (ha!), play with the cats, write a letter
or two, perhaps attempt a dinner out, go for a walk, talk to friends
on the phone. oh, yes, and enjoy sleeping in our brand new bed...
phew. by monday, i'll be glad for the quiet pace at work.
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| 667.4 | | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Sat Jan 23 1988 14:59 | 1 |
| Work, just like most other weekends ... <sigh>
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| 667.5 | Domestications | VAXRT::CANNOY | Let's snark out tonight | Sun Jan 24 1988 13:56 | 13 |
| It's nice to be at home for a whole weekend.
I read a lot and made about 4 gallons of soup to freeze, slept late,
snuggled with my love and the cats, listened to good music and silly
radio programs, talked to caterer about wedding plans, sewed on lost
buttons and mended, thought about designs for wedding costume, did lots
of laundry, watched my love play with nifty computer stuff, read Sunday
paper, vacuumed. If I get really ambitious Maybe I'll clean the
bathrooms today.
It's nice to putter around sometimes.
Tamzen
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| 667.6 | My turn | STUBBI::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Sun Jan 24 1988 16:27 | 12 |
| Watched VCRs with the kids last night and the night before...
the best one was Outrageous Fortune (saw that one after the 10 year
old went to bed). Got a start on a major job of cleaning out
the basement, we need to install new drain pipe all around the
perimiter of our basement to prevent flooding. Made three cakes
to serve at the church annual meeting this morning (I signed up
to do coffee hour two months ago and picked annual meeting Sunday
without realizing it :-) ) Spent some time this afternoon finding
the kids birth certificates so that we can go get soical security
numbers. (Also found our wedding certificates and wills)
Bonnie
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| 667.7 | Just reeeelaaaaxing... | BSS::BLAZEK | Dancing with My Self | Sun Jan 24 1988 17:24 | 8 |
| My SO went skiing yesterday so I fixed stew in the crockpot
for when he got home ( =8*) ), today I'm in a I-refuse-to-
get-dressed mood which means saying hello to my sweats and
glasses, and tonight I'm going to rent a movie (The Turning
Point, I think; I'm in the mood for Baryshnikov).
Carla
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| 667.8 | oh...just a 'quiet' weekend at home | BSS::POGAR | | Sun Jan 24 1988 17:41 | 26 |
| Saturday
- Helped my son's cub scout troop out at McDonalds for an "all you
can eat breakfast" -- flipped pancakes for over 3 hours!! Really
thought I might have discovered a new career with less stress. GEEEZ
was I wrong!
- Took my daughter to the hairdresser for a 'rad' new style.
- Took son and daughter to two different birthday parties.
- Mike and I took the children to a family dinner party in town
(we live in the country and drove nearly 2 hours through snow and
wind, but it was fun!).
Sunday
- Went to church and took the kids to Religous Education classes.
- Took my daughter to the Girl Scouts Ice Skating party.
- Finally installed my new Scholar 2400 baud modem (reading WN
from Colorado at the home base is much quicker!!!).
- Mike and I took our son, Michael, to McDonalds for lunch - can you
believe it??? :^|
- Put a pot of chili on the stove.
- Working on an automation analysis which is due tomorrow -- oh
well, after I read WN a little while longer :^)
Mike and I both turned to each other today and asked the same question:
When *WILL* those closets get cleaned out????? hmmm....
ap
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| 667.10 | work & pleasure | XCELR8::POLLITZ | | Sun Jan 24 1988 23:49 | 9 |
| Saturday morning just after midnite, I made a note.
Later during daylight the usual Library visit.
Including reading up on *those* authors that don't
use footnotes much. :-)
Sunday I visited a new lady friend. I'll probably be
seeing more of her.
Russ
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| 667.11 | what a way to end the weekend | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Mon Jan 25 1988 00:40 | 17 |
| I can't believe what I just did. I've been writing a course for
6 months. It's due to the editors tomorrow. I worked all weekend
fixing last minute things and putting the finishing touches on it.
Tonight I exceeded my diskquota, and had to purge several times
which meant I was working with one copy of the source files.
I went to delete something extraneous and deleted all my source
files...
I have hard copies of everything, and the operators promised me
a 3 day old backup. But that's not much consolation after working
all weekend to meet a deadline which I shall now surely blow.
sigghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Holly
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| 667.12 | Season's Greetings | PARITY::TILLSON | Sugar Magnolia | Mon Jan 25 1988 11:51 | 49 |
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We weren't able to visit my folks for Christmas, so this weekend
they came to visit for a late Chrostmas party.
Saturday:
Went out to a wonderful lunch with my husband.
Proceeded to the Chevy dealer to put a deposit on a 1988 Chevy Cavalier
Z24 (5speed, 2.8literV6, all the trimmings, in arrest-me red,
please!!!)
Took hubby home so he could clean and watch tacky horror movies
on the tube.
Went CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!! What a great way to do this - no crowds,
everything on sale!
Checked out a new pet store, met some rare parrots and softbills,
talked to the owner about his breeding plans, spent my life savings
on supplies for the menagerie.
Picked up a huge pan of Chicken Tetrazinni for Sunday dinner so
I could enjoy my guests instead of spending time in the kitchen.
Went home, took off my shoes, kicked back, watched Star Treck and
wrapped Christmas presents.
Sunday:
Did my share of the cleaning while hubby went to church. Took a
loooong hot bath and dressed up fancy.
Mom, stepdad, grandma, grandpa, sister and brother-in-law showed
up for dinner. Gorged on Chicken Tetrazinni (yum!), salad, bananna
bread, cherry pie, apple pie. Grandma brought paper plates and
palstic utensils, so no washing dishes! Opened Christmas presents,
chatted, played a silly fishing game that we got. Took a consensus
vote to torch the new Rubics puzzle. (geesh, the 12 panel puzzle
is MUCH harder than the cube!)
Everyone left, we read the Sunday paper, munched leftovers, and
watched the Tracey Ulman show.
Nicest Christmas I've had in years!
Happy holidays,
Rita
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| 667.13 | | JUNIOR::TASSONE | Can we buy a 30ft. Larson? | Mon Jan 25 1988 12:37 | 15 |
| Ahh, the weekend. Spent Friday night food shopping, Saturday searching
for particle board to make 8 shelves, found it, sanded it down,
while SO did the cutting. Went to a friends house for Chinese food
and good conversation. Church on Sunday, coffee and a doughnut
afterwards. Took a get-rid-of-frustration walk, came back and read
the Middelsex Sunday paper while eating choc. chip cookies, watched
Children of a Lesser God on VCR and Alien (in slow motion, didn't
want to miss a thing), made a nice warm dinner for us both, watched
60 minues (we call it 70 minutes, just for fun), took a nap and
then left to go to my apartment.
Overall, a very relaxing time. Except my shoulder muscles would
argue that if they could.
Cat
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| 667.14 | relaxed -mostly | WITNES::DOUGHERTY | DOUGHERTY | Mon Jan 25 1988 12:42 | 10 |
| Saturday, I spent the day reading Sarah Dreher's Gray Magic, listening
to music and doing LAUNDRY.
Sunday, I picketed Cardinal Law's Boston residence with about 50 other
people to oppose Law's position on privacy/reproductive/lesbian/gay
rights. Had lunch with a group of friends, went to a meeting on the
Feminization of Power (a new campaign to elect more feminist women and
men to political office), started a new book "Say Jesus and Come
to Me" by Ann Allen Parker(?) and had tea and cookies with a good
friend I haven't seen for ages.
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| 667.15 | Busy and almost entirely PC ;-) | PNEUMA::SULLIVAN | Singing for our lives | Mon Jan 25 1988 13:08 | 19 |
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On Friday and Saturday nights, I went to 2 in 20, the first Lesbian
Soap Opera. It was wonderful. For those of you (interested
WOMANnoters) who missed it, there's supposed to be another showing
soon. So lets keep an eye out for it in Sojourner, etc.
I picketed Cardinal Law's house yesterday, too. But I didn't
meet any other WOMANnoters there. In the afternoon, I went
to a friend's concert and heard Liz Walker (She's coming back to
the tube tonight!) narrate "Peter and the Wolf." Yesterday was
also my birthday, and my SO cooked a wonderful dinner and a yummy
cake for me and some friends. (Gee, if it hadn't been for all
the sugar and chocolate in the cake, I could have said that I
spent one entirely PC weekend .... :-) Oh, well there's
always next year.)
Justine
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| 667.16 | Didn't realize how boring it was! | SSDEVO::HILLIGRASS | | Mon Jan 25 1988 13:09 | 15 |
| Spent Saturday looking all over town for decent baby wallpaper,
what a disappointment! Got caught in a blizzard on one end of
town only to race home and find the sun shining! (Colorado
weather is driving me crazy. :*) )
Sunday cleaned out the dreaded "Kitchen Junk Drawer" as well as
the catch all pantry. Only thirty drawers and 10 closets left in
the house to straighten.....Boy! I 'm excited! Had my family over
for dinner, cleaned the kitchen, watched 1 hour of "The Murder
of Mary Phagan" and fell asleep while listening to my husband pound
on his keyboard in the next room.
I can't handle this kind of excitement any longer!!! :*}
- Sue
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| 667.17 | I bet I left out *something*... | CADSYS::RICHARDSON | | Mon Jan 25 1988 15:19 | 44 |
| Lemme see....
Friday night:
Picked up Steve's volunteer work to bring to Peter's house on Saturday.
Cooked dinner very fast (got home late).
Went to services at the synagogue.
Wrote a short article.
Went to sleep!!
Saturday:
Slept a bit late - Paul not feeling well.
Rustled up breakfast.
Went to Peter's house to drop off last month's volunteer work (ours
and Steve's) and picked up this month's stuff (ours, Steve's, and
Roy's).
Picked up repaired headphones from shop and bought some CDs.
Checked out new Italian deli - got lunch.
Bought wedding present for Paul's cousin and had it shipped.
Stopped in bookstore and bought some light reading matter.
Picked up groceries that the store was out of on Thursday.
Tried to buy film for Carl's camera, but was unsure exactly what
kind to get so didn't get any (he left the camera at our house -
needs to send in pictures of us for diving licenses, but was out
of film).
Went home and baked cookies.
Took cookies to Scott and Sally's house for dinner, conversation,
and showing of their vacation slides.
Got lost getting home...
Went to bed.
Sunday:
Paul sick, stayed in bed until noon.
Worked on volunteer stuff all morning while he slept.
Fixed a very late breakfast when he got up (feeling somewhat better).
Finished up a large piece of this month's work.
Fixed a very late lunch.
Went in to DEC to do work and do some typesetting on laser printer.
Spent about 6 hours here, so got subs on the way home instead of
cooking dinner.
Ate sub.
Wrote to my mother and brother and went to bed!
I bet I forgot something....
/Charlotte
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| 667.18 | CA - Snow you can come home from. | OPHION::HAYNES | Charles Haynes | Tue Jan 26 1988 05:07 | 20 |
| Re: .0 Hi Lisa, sorry you have to debug other people's code! Hope
it isn't mine...
Friday night, drove for four hours to Lake Tahoe, had dinner at
Wendy's.
Saturday, skiied all day at Alpine Meadows with seven friends. Finished
the day by taking a jump too fast and landing on my shoulder. Ouch!
Cooked spaghetti alla carbonara for dinner, washed down with chianti.
Dove Bars for dessert. Spent the evening getting silly and talking
with friends.
Sunday, skiied all day at Northstar. Finished the day by not doing
anything stupid, but having one of our friends skis stolen. Bleah.
Drove home, stopping in Auburn for Greek food, lamb shish-ke-bab.
Got home around midnight and kissed my sweetie who had a deadline
and so didn't come skiing (boo!). Luckily, the demo (today) went
very well. Played with our new kitties.
-- Charles
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| 667.19 | Silly ... | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Jan 26 1988 12:58 | 18 |
| The weekend was trivial: Rented and watched two videotapes Friday
night, did errands Saturday, connected the repaired TV, found it
had not been repaired, went to the symphony Saturday night, and
on Sunday did fanac. Mostly this was sorting and resorting the
Boskone badges. We have a "Marty Minow" and a "Catherine Iannuzzom"
coming. Sorry, guys.
Monday night was more interesting. I got home, and as I pulled
in the driveway I noticed something.... So I parked, went inside,
looked up the number, and left a message on the Dog Officer's
machine, telling her that there was "a large, white goose on my
front lawn". (This morning I watched it, with much honking, fly
to my neighbor's yard.) Then Tim and I screened and timed as many
of the films for Boskone as we had time for.
Tonight I have to help figure out how to move a world.
Ann B.
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| 667.20 | ?? | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Tue Jan 26 1988 15:41 | 9 |
| Ann,
"Fanac" and "Boskone" aren't in my current vocabulary...can you
say more?
My gut reaction is if *you* are doing whatever it is, it's probably
worth knowing about :-)
Holly
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| 667.21 | 5th weekend in January | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Jan 26 1988 16:32 | 17 |
| "Fanac" means FANnish ACtivity, where "fannish" means pertaining
to the science fiction community.
"Boskone" is the BOSton regional science fiction CONvention. (It
is a long, sad story to explain why it is in Springfiled this year.)
It would be called, spelled, and pronounced Boscon, except that
E.E. Smith wrote a series of stories about the Lensmen, the good
guys of the galaxy (not all human, but (with one exception) all
male) in their struggle against the bad guys of the galaxy. The
second-ranking set of bad guys, just below the Eick (sp), was the
Council of Boskone.
The Stranger Club could not resist this, and embraced the name for
their conventions in the early forties. When the conventions were
re-started in the sixties, so was the name.
Ann B., F.N.
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