Category: Tales of the BH
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Mailboxes etc
This is the hole in the wall where our mailboxes used to be. Mine didn’t have a lock, some others were falling apart and I am pretty sure it was older than I am. Good riddance, I say. The new management is really trying to fix things up and I am quite delighted about it.…
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Halloween 2008
Another year, another celebration of All Hallows’ Eve. Our annual Halloween party took place at The Point, a bar just behind the Bell in Hand in Fanuel Hall. It was a much more intimate venue and worked much better for us this year than the huge hall we had last year. If it had been…
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Water Damage
As several people who have seen my new apartment can attest, there is some water damage in my ceiling. It was there when I first saw the apartment, but I was told that it would be repaired and fixed by the time I moved in. That never happened. A month later, nothing has happened to…
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Getting Domesticated
As I sit here, waiting for my toilet bowl to disinfect, I’m finding myself becoming more domesticated. Now that I have moved in by myself, I’m the sole keeper of this domain and as I look around I’m now seeing little things that may not be broken, but I think could be made better. So…
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Birthday 2008 Part 2: The Cake was not a lie
Day 2 started with me groggily getting out of bed, grabbing my work laptop and heading into the basement. An hour later, I had the network back up with access to the internet. Unfortunately, I ended up having to reset my router causing me to lose all of my security settings and MAC addresses for…
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Birthday 2008 Part 1: The Big Haul
Year to year, I have to admit, I’ve had some pretty good birthdays. Part of this might be due to summer weather or no school or one of a dozen other reasons. Last year kind of sucked. Things were pretty busy and I didn’t think about it until it was too late to plan anything.…
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Toying with the idea
I have this semi-new self-imposed rule that I have to take a picture of any new toys in package before I open it. This is for several reasons. It gives me less incentive to hold on to the packaging for future reference. It also allows me to build an easy to access image archive of…
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Bushwacked
I sent this email to my roommates yesterday (except with a lot more typos): Subject: Please Stop To: My Roommates From: Bradley J. Each morning at approx. 05:45 my alarm goes off, I wake up and turn it off. Most mornings, this is quickly followed by immediately rolling over and falling asleep again for about…
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AnimeBoston 2008
Another year, another variation of the costume. AnimeBoston came early this year. March 21-23. Brenna came to town again for the con. Friday, the first day of the con was her 23rd birthday. Naturally, we celebrated, but one thing at a time. I have posted a not so brief summary of the week/weekend after the…
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Halloween 2007 Teaser Part 2: Xorn
As you saw in the first teaser, I bought a gladiator helmet on E-Bay. Here’s what it turned into: The costume creation process will be posted in several parts soon.