Miriam

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End of Holidailies : I seem perfectly capable of telling time. I just can't read a calendar. (posted Jan 6, 8:10pm)

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Travel Planning - Seaplane Edition! : I have wanted to ride in a seaplane since I was about 4, since there used to be a seaplane dock in my home town. (posted Jan 5, 6:19pm)

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To My Credit : Back in August, the bank I have my credit card with (a card chosen for frequent flyer mile maximization and fee minimization) sent me a new card because (they said) their database had been compromised. (posted Jan 4, 6:18pm)

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Knitting Party : Good food, good friends, knitting ... not a bad way to kick off the year. (posted Jan 3, 6:45pm)

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Fit of Organizational Mania : I've finished shredding the 1999 files from the file drawer and started going through the desk drawer. The shredder is getting a good workout. (posted Jan 3, 10:01am)

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Book Lists : I do keep a list of what I read. In fact, I go beyond that and keep a journal where I write reviews / commentary on every book I read. I do that mostly because it forces me to think about what I read. (posted Jan 2, 7:32am)

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Things I Need Solutions To : There are smaller, lighter, higher resolution digital cameras out there. I want one of them to become mine. (posted Jan 1, 7:53am)

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2009 - Year in Review : The most interesting thing I did was experiencing weightlessness (via a parabolic flight on the Zero-G plane). (posted Dec 31, 5:57pm)

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Simile Gone Wrong : It's hard to make movies of spiders building webs if they build them from 2 to 5 a.m. (posted Dec 30, 7:52pm)

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Mommy Queerest : There were a lot of good one-liners throughout the show, but, alas, one-liners do not satisfying theatre make (posted Dec 29, 9:46pm)

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F.L.I.P. : Back in high school, my mother conned me into playing rehearsal piano for the sisterhood show at our synagogue. The show was called something like "F.L.I.P. Goes to Mars" where the abbreviation stood for "Fascinating Ladies of Island Park." (posted Dec 29, 5:48am)

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Taking Chances : The single question I get asked most often about travel in the developing world is whether I'm afraid of getting sick. (posted Dec 28, 4:44pm)

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Showboat : The lack of a full-up riverboat set has caused some wags to refer to the show as "No Boat." (posted Dec 27, 5:52pm)

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Zoo and Cathedral Walk : The zoo has really gone downhill, in my opinion. There is a lot of construction, so perhaps it is temporary, but it felt like nearly a third of it was closed. (posted Dec 26, 9:41pm)

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Nine : It's Complicated got better reviews, but the reviews for Nine were not entirely off-putting. I chose the latter. (posted Dec 25, 6:41pm)

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Good Customer Service : I complain so much about bad customer service that it is worth noting when a company gets things right. (posted Dec 24, 5:39pm)

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Memories - Seasonal and Un : He insisted that cold and snow were a Soviet plot. See, the Russians had these giant air blowers installed in Siberia ... (posted Dec 23, 6:56pm)

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How to Feel Accomplished : I actually did everything on my to-do list today. The secret is, of course, to be unambitious. (posted Dec 22, 6:07pm)

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Returning to Normal : My Scottish neighbor did not, alas, wear his kilt this year. (posted Dec 21, 4:06am)

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Aftermath : We ended up getting about 20 inches of snow. That's a new record for December in this area and somewhere on the list of top 10 storms here since they started keeping records. (posted Dec 20, 5:56am)

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Snowpocalypse Now! : Apparently, if the end of the world comes and you live in Fairfax County, it is vitally important to have potato chips and wine. (posted Dec 19, 7:05am)

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Another Office Party : He got bitten by a copperhead and I was telling funny stories as fast as I could. (posted Dec 18, 4:36am)

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The Fantasticks : Performers always matter but that is especially true when it comes to a simple little musical like this. (posted Dec 17, 5:43am)

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Plant a Radish : There's a scene at the beginning of the movie Julie and Julia where Julie says something about cooking being reassuring because if you do it right, it always works. (posted Dec 15, 6:14pm)

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I Do Actually Do Things Sometimes : As for Saturday, the weather was pretty dreadful, with torrential rain. That meant doing inside things and I spent some time over at the KPFA Crafts Fair. (posted Dec 14, 8:31pm)

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The Ghosts of San Francisco : Best of Holidailies That shabby corner where I boarded a hippie bus to actually see something of what was in between the coasts is respectably gentrified now. The Crocker Galleria is there, but the card shop where I bought the "Sex, Drugs and Opera" t-shirt is gone. (posted Dec 13, 7:03pm)

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Place Holder : Some day I will sit down and rant about the various spellings of Chanukah and why I have a particular hatred of the form "Hanukkah," which, alas, seems to have become the most popular in the U.S., making it well nigh impossible to buy commercial greeting cards for the holiday. (posted Dec 12, 12:55pm)

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Some Thoughts on Social Networking : The way one survives in a large city is to find smaller communities to live within. (posted Dec 10, 6:16pm)

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I Never Could Get the Hang of Wednesdays : To say that I am white hot furious would only be an understatement. (posted Dec 9, 6:50pm)

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Feasts : We always went out for our birthdays and we had a choice of where to go and my choice was inevitably Palace of Wong. (posted Dec 8, 5:24pm)

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A Holidailies Introduction : My retirement plan involves New England, with a condo in Punta del Este, Uruguay for the 4 months of the year that New England is uninhabitable. Except for the days, that is, when I decide I really want to live on a boat. Which would mean owning a lot fewer books and a lot less yarn. (posted Dec 7, 5:26am)