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JanuaryJan 2 Friday 09
Zinging a co-worker
So, I am back at work after being off for 2 weeks. I am dealing with a few minor blips, but thus far nothing bad. I should explain that we tend to name our servers after characters from Lord of...
Drenched Fur registration launched
I spent a fair amount of time yesterday getting the online registration form ready for Drenched Fur, Erie's annual Bear event. (Bear - furry, sometimes larger sized gay males.) This will be the 5th year for the event, and we...
New Year's Eve and a mis-parsed conversation
I had a fairly nice New Year. I went over to a small house party that my friends Peter and Tim have hosted for the past few years. It was sort of low-key, but pleasant. Peter is really big on...
JanuaryJan 1 Thursday 09
An unfortunate trend
On Saturday, after visiting Chris, then the Yule party at John and Paula's and then the Pagan party in Fairview, I stopped by the Zone. (I had spent most of Friday doing geek stuff and being asocial, so I guess...
Yule parties and a silly gift
Saturday was quite the mad social whirl! After visiting with Chris, I went to John and Paula's to celebrate Yule. We had a potluck dinner and a gift exchange. I must confess that I never know what to get. I...
Video gallery added to Erie Gay News, photo gallery enhanced
Deb had suggested that we should consider doing more with video at the Erie Gay News site. It also had been kind of annoying to paste in embedded code for the videos in the home grown CMS I wrote. So,...
RSS feed madness
Continuing the theme of geeking around on my vacation, I played around with adding additional RSS feeds for the Erie Gay News site. I noticed that the Zone Dance Club had an out of date version of the calendar from...
Annual holiday cards photo
For the past few years, I take a shot of the mantle with all of the holiday cards taped to it. It might be kind of lame, but it always makes me happy....
Calling for Equality
Good job by Calling for Equality! The San Diego GLBT community is striking back! NoOnProp8 was not enough to defeat Proposition 8, which is now enshrined in the California Constitution. An association of California businessmen organized Calling for Equality to...
DecemberDec 31 Wednesday 08
Nice Christmas with family
I went to Mom's for Christmas. My stepdad, brother, his girlfriend, Grandma, her husband Mac and Mom's neighbor Laura were all there. It was fairly relaxed and we had a good time. Mom got out the brown Depression glass set...
Visit with Chris
My friend Chris (that would be him with the long red beard) was visiting family here in Erie. After graduating from Behrend, he has been going to law school in Pittsburgh. He wanted to catch up with friends, and so...
DecemberDec 25 Thursday 08
Elf video
Found this at Eden's blog and also ErieBlogs.com, so what the hey. Some silly elf videos with my sister, her husband, my brother, his girlfriend and me. Send your own ElfYourself eCards or maybe Disco? I do have gay points...
Burger King cologne
I was out at the Zone last night and was chatting with Season and Chris. Somehow, the topic of Flame, the cologne that Burger King introduced recently came up. Chris thought that they used bacon oil in it. Burgers/food scents...
An Appropriately Inappropriate Card
Folding/distribution of the latest issue of Erie Gay News went very well this past Tuesday. I had previously found Earl, the Christmas Squirrel (a Christmas novelty song) for James and got it to him on CD. When we were done...
DecemberDec 23 Tuesday 08
Waking up to being cold
I think things are okay now. When I woke up this morning, I noticed that the house was chilly. I looked at the thermostat and it was 45 degrees! The furnace was silent (scary) and the space heater in the...
Busy weekend and an oops
We finished the newsletter this weekend, and I also had a wonderful time at the Vertigo Dance Party in Butler. I posted photos in the Flickr gallery here. Deb was also able to use the photos in the newsletter that...
Holiday newsletter
I have all of my holiday cards out now, and I included a fluffy newsletter with some photos. If you can stomach it, the PDF is attached. Holiday Newsetter 2008...
DecemberDec 21 Sunday 08
GLBT History page updated
Another end of the year task out of the way. I have an area at the Erie Gay News site for area GLBT history. Towards the end of the year, I go through the past articles and post what seems...
Working on a friend's laptop
I caught up on some geeky stuff. I got a call mid-evening from my friend Eric, who was having problems with his laptop. I stopped over at his place around 9 PM to pick it up for a look and...
DecemberDec 19 Friday 08
Yule with Brighidshaven
Since I had an unfinished task (and just because I wanted to), I went to the open circle for Yule that the Covenant of Brighidshaven had at the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Erie had. Out of all 8 rituals, Yule tends...