Another Christmas has come and gone and this year we were fortunate to have the whole fam, grandparents, Anil and Bryan and a host of visitors in attendance. The festivities started Christmas Eve with great food and juggling, oddly enough, and church, and continued with sparkly and thoughtful presents for all interspersed with more great food on Christmas day. Literally all Christmas day. Honey, wine, warm sleepwear and socket wrenches (217 in fact, and all for me!) were in abundance and I left grateful but exhausted. At this rate we may need to make Christmas ‘06 a 2-day event!
Archive for December, 2005
Christmas ‘05
Monday, December 26th, 2005
FutureMe
Monday, December 19th, 2005The FutureMe site, a site that lets you send email to yourself in the future, has been in the press quite a bit lately, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. When I turn 50 I should be receiving warm birthday wishes from myself, along with a brief summary of what was going on in the world back in 2005 and what I thought about it. What was supposed to take five minutes took an hour and a half, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy reading it in 2021, provided my email address and I are both still around.
I’d like the attic room please
Friday, December 9th, 2005Congrats go out to my friend Bill as he moves into his new home this week in Redmond, WA. After hearing about the media room, hot tub and wine cellar I’m ready to move in with them. Think his fiancé will mind? Speaking of which, more congratulations go to Bill on his engagement. I’m looking forward to meeting Stephanie in May!
Inside Iraq
Sunday, December 4th, 2005Last night we went to see Mike Shiley’s documentary Inside Iraq at the Orpheum. Really impressive. Mike is a mid-to-late 30s guy from Portland, without any professional film or journalism training, who travelled to Iraq for two months and made a 95-minute film about his experience. Now he’s showing the film at theatres across the U.S., personally introducing the film and following each presentation with a discussion. He presents the film from a humanitarian (vs. political) view, going out of his way (huge understatment) to accurately depict the day-to-day lives, attitudes and economic means of both the people and US military in Iraq. This is definitely not what we see in the media. I would love for Mr. Bush to see and respond to this film.