The holidays have officially begun with the first of many family gatherings over the next week.  My wife and I went to her cousin’s house for a delicious dinner and a relaxing evening.  They live about an hour or so away from us and I was initially concerned about driving so far today – the windchill made the temperature plummet from hovering around zero degrees fahrenheit to negative thirty degrees fahrenheit – but in the end the awesome of seeing family outweighed the relatively small danger of something happening with the car or other driving tomfoolery.

Also, man invented long underwar for a reason.

I’ve also gotten on twitter in case you’re into that sort of thing: http://twitter.com/burnfirewalls

Burnfirewalls is also my gamer handle.  I think that “personal branding” sucks (a short, polite version of what I think, anyhow) so I’m just rockin’ the feed that I already had instead of making a special “Greg X. Graves Official Corporate Feedotron: Empty of Human Content.”  In the immortal words of several friends of mine: fuck that, no time.

Woke up this morning at an early-for-Greg hour of 6, hit the computer starting at 6:30.

I wrote six words in Codex and Word sprouted an error about how I had too many grammar and spelling mistakes and it had to shut off autocorrect.

I felt judged and also great for having enough raw material to break a word processor.

The Minnesota recount has revealed a stunning sea change in electoral politics within America: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/  I, for one, am surprised that our new reptile overlords are humoring us with the vote, when they could easily enforce our slavery via nuclear-powered ray guns.

Being tired of doom-and-gloom news that is anathema to resolving the problem, I wrote a greasemonkey script that changes all instances of “economy” or “economic” on a page to “doughnuts” and “doughnuty,” respectively.  And then I saw that “the doughnut is shrinking” and nearly wept.