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Watched Star Wreck: In the Pirkenning a Finnish Fan Parody of Star Trek and Bab 5. Good giggles. (We streamed it from Google Video. Not sure of the link; Christine found it via Wired.) We watched the whole thing, but the bit from when Sherrypie (Sheridan) has Pirk (Kirk) against the wall to the end is less... surprising. If you're bored half way through, it is unlikely to get better for you.

I did find it interesting to see how the Finns portrayed the Russians, and wonder at the translations: i have to trust all the verbal humor is intentional. There's a Lt Dwarf, a parody Klingon ("I suppose it's a passable day to die.") The "ape man" epithets thrown at him make me wonder a little about how the Klingons translate from US culture overseas. Perhaps from reading Klingons as Russians in TOS, the "new" Klingons never evoked Cro-Magnon man thoughts for me.

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The car has been left at the car vet. The car estimate matches the surgery and overnight stay charge for Mr M (but not the charge for the initial visit and the diagnostics). Will it match the whole vet bill in the end?

NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO GET SICK AGAIN IN THE HOUSEHOLD FOR SIX MONTHS. THIS INCLUDES THE COMPUTERS. Except for Christine, because we have insurance, and because she's had to work so hard holding all of us together. And except for my computer Pennyroyal, because we know it needs a part replaced and it's under warrantee.

I don't know if i'm tempting fate or not giving it a timeline like that.

In news of things that now function better, our landlord bought a new dishwasher that is super quiet, super efficient, Consumer reports best buy, etc. Theoretically it can tell a small load from large, etc, so instead of waiting around for a full load to run, we can run it every night. We produce a full load (because we do pots and everything) *nearly* every night, which means it annoying by the middle of the next day if we haven't run it.

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I am pondering whether i should go to the midwinter gathering of LGBTQ Friends: registration is due in two weeks. I am currently feeling too exhausted, too drained to commit. This bronchitis following the weeks of post-travel depression has not been good. I've work and Meeting responsibilities that linger. And air travel: ha! I really don't want to think about air travel. Two weeks.

Anything new right now seems like too much. And i do have a new commitment...

Quick, a goals for the holiday+weekend!

0. Time: nothing to plan for Jan except being flexible for my brother's family. Midwinter punt until next week.
1. Self: Get well. Wrap up 2008^h9 inclulding the cache of paperwork discovered (i don't know why i made the "8" typo, but it stands out as evidence of frame of mind). I think it is possible!
2. F&F: Yule cards to core correspondents, and thank you notes, and new years greetings to staff
3. COM: * End of year donations? I think i'll punt there. I screwed up in the middle of summer and never renewed things that should have been renewed then. I should chart those out.
* Plan trip with books & with the other J to the City to make introductions
* Membership committee email
* Clearness committee email
* Send library minutes around
4. WORK
* Questions for manual
* Questions for project
* ... that's enough focus, considering
5. CRT
* stitch more silk hankerchiefs for dyeing
* plan the dyeing somewhere!
* Christine's gloves
6. HOME
* slow tidy.
* meals & groceries
* get pots from Meetinghouse

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