Well, me, at least. Katherine and Margie are off to upstate Wisconsin to spend family time with her folks, brother's family, and her Aunt LaNora.

Meanwhile, I'm playing Bachelor Days, working from home tomorrow, and then enjoying a 4-day holiday weekend. I'm cooking up a big pot of chili, I have a bunch of other food in the fridge, I have a social plan or two, and -- aside from missing Margie and Kitten terribly -- expect I'll make out not too badly.

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Alex, Nick, Katherine

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The bro-in-law was out in Colorado for a shindig of some sort, so last night he joined Margie, Katherine and me (and Stan, and Jackie) at Domo, our Favorite Japanese Restaurant (and not just ours). 

It was kind of interesting for me, since it's right near two stops on the light rail, just outside the core of downtown, so I could just saunter over (though then I needed to be dropped off at the Park-n-Ride at the way home). 

Jackie's first time at Domo and, like me, she eschewed the sushi and went for a curry bowl. Yum.

Eric stayed overnight at our place, which was fun. We'll be seeing him (et al.) next week when we head out for the family campout.

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FRIDAY: Went to dinner at the Traildust. Got some yummy steak and prime rib. Katherine dragged me out to dance multiple times. 

SATURDAY: Relaxing Day #1. Considered running some errands, but played CoX instead. It was hot enough that we finally fired off the air conditioner for the first time this year. 

In the evening, Katherine had a sleep-over with her friends from up the street, Kendall and Tyler. That included a pancake dinner and sundry game-playing and squeals. The girls slept on the hide-a-bed in the family room -- once (around 11 p.m.) they finally slept.

SUNDAY: Continuing the sleep-over until close to Noon (though the girls were up around 6 a.m.). Fathers Day after that was mostly relaxing with the family. Played some more CoX. Talked with respective dads. Margie BBQed some steak and zucchini. Watched the first two segments of HBO's John Adams miniseries. Went to bed too late, but a nice day -- and weekend -- nonetheless.

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Words to live by. (Margie's okay, but it made for an exciting afternoon.)

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My little book addict.

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Tech support calls you don't want to get from your parents ...

11. Your father was looking at porn again and spilled 'something' on the keyboard.

10. I want you to build me a new computer, but I still want to stick with Windows ME because I'm familiar with it.

9. My cronjob doesn't work but when I grep the error logs nothing's there. Do you think it has something to do with the kernel recompile I did last night?

8. The hard drive was squeaking, so I found this site that said you could grease the hard drive bearings, and now it doesn't work.

7. How long does it usually take for nigerian millionaires to send the money after you send them your bank account information?

6. My hairdresser told me it's something to do with hardbox memory.

5. Your brother tried to fix it and...

4. It seems to rattle a lot when I shake it really hard.

3. The keys don't type the proper letters anymore.

2. Your dad set the crackpipe on the keyboard and a few of the keys melted together. Do you think you could pick us up another one?

1. I clicked on the attachment and everything started acting funny.

No, really. My parents are much better than that. Really. Love you guys!

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Unlike all the Cool Kids, I've never gotten down with using Tags for my blog entries.  I don't trust myself enough to tag things consistently, frankly.  So I use categories to group things together for those times I want to review a subject (vs. searching for individual posts).

I've added a bunch of new subcategories today for several categories that had grown unwieldingly large.  In most cases, these were categories I'd been pondering for a while, but which I finally got around to building.  I've done them as subcategories of the parent categories I'm trying to break up.

Now, in theory, I should go back through those parent categories and reassign things appropriately.  Alas, with over 12,000 entries, that's a herculean job that I'm saving for when I have a week with nothing else to do.  Perhaps when retire ...

So for the most part these categories are starting off as stubs that will build from this point, with possible backfilling if I reference back to an earlier post.  Let's see how that works for now; in another 12,000 posts, nobody will remember the difference.

Sub-categories being added:

• Blogging - Technical (to track posts about MT and technical issues with my blog, vs. other general Blogging subjects)
• Family (broken out from Personal)
• Health - Science (to distinguish from "I am down with the grippe" Health posts)
• Media - Art (to make various reference to the Tate Modern, etc.)
• Media - Sports (for the occasional obligatory sports post)
• My Mobile / PDA (for stuff having to do with cell phones and PDAs and combos thereof)
• Religion - Episcopal Church (broken out from the general Religion category)
• Religion - My Parish (my local church activities)
• Religion - Me (my own musings on the subject)

And I'm doing this post as much to note these changes as "starter" posts for those new subcategories than as anything I figure anyone would be interested in actually reading.  We now resume my regular blather, normally scheduled for this time.

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