Just a quick happy turkey day to everyone - this is my first one in Mosaic - mixing relationship family with community family - and the result has been delightful so far.

Thanks everyone. I'm off to shower and receive company...

Poll #1490228 Cranberry sauce....
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Charter cable is having a large scale outage in the Worcester area right now. Everything is down - they're working on it. This affects all homeport services.

Sorry!

I'm trying to keep up a regular chatter on how Ubercon is going, posting pictures and other tidbits via twitter - anyone watching? :)

One thing I had to share - there's a restaurant attached to the hotel named Harolds. It's a fairly decent NY style deli, with one caveat - their portions are ENORMOUS. Pancakes are the size of pizzas (literally).

Here is a pic of the omlette I was served yesterday for breakfast. My sources tell me this critter has 12 eggs in it. I can't even begin to think of the caloric and cholesterol levels in this puppy.



And no, I didn't finish it. I had about 1/5th of it. Epic wastage. ( What I had was really good. :-/ )

In a few hours, I"ll be heading down to NJ for Ubercon. This should be interesting, as it's the first time I'm going 'alone' in quite a while (this is the twelfth Ubercon, I've been to all of them running registration, with various friends and partners each time - okay, the very first one I went by myself).

If anyone is in the area, drop by and say hi! I'm also txtable, not sure if I'll be online much.

This is just a reminder that I'm no longer cross-posting my blog entries into LJ. If you'd like to see my blog postings, make sure you add planet_geek as a friend.

Traffic on the blog goes in spikes - rarely more than one post a day, and frequently only a post every 3-4 days. So it won't spam your inbox :)

I also have a twitter RSS source, but LJ won't let me create an RSS feed for it. Someone with a paid account is welcome to do so.

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17631975.rss

For those looking for good walkable safe space to go trick or treating, Mosaic will be open for trick or treaters starting at 6pm. I also happen to know a haunted hallway and a spooky graveyard may be somewhere to be found as well.

Directions are here: http://www.mosaic-commons.org/directions

Continuing the "it's better to be a little too communicative, as opposed to not communicative enough" thread, here's another in the series...

Friday: Games night! On the one hand, thanks to everyone who showed up. It was catya's organizing that pulled it together - but I think we need to have a cap on how many people / kids we can have in the house. It got pretty intense. I think at one point we had 30 people in our livingroom/ kitchen (including kids). A woefully incomplete list: jasra, dbang, qwrrty, randysmith, lilzon, greg, victoria, and a cast of thousands I can't remember.

Saturday: A generally yucky, rainy, cold day. First thing in the morning we had a bus tour come through, and I toured a handful of folks around. Afterwards, there was a lot of low-key hanging out in the common house (what's a CH for, eh? I wish we had the fireplace working), which had a steady parade of snacks, chats, and general geekery. Was rather nice actually. I took the opportunity to finish building my new server, and got it up and on the net successfully. In the evening, Kim, Zach and I went out to the 99 and had nummy food, followed by ice cream. A good way to end the day.

Sunday: Brunch in the common house (mmmmm) (thanks Kim!), then did a bunch of woodworking on the mailboxes in the CH entranceway - hopefully we'll be able to get our mail delivered soon! After that, there was a big pumpkin carving shindig hosted by winged_faerie (see some of the pictures on dbang's photo page. I was completely tuckered out by then, and took a nap. In the evening, low key geekery (more on this later, suffice to say LDAP ATE MY BRAIN), and some gaming.

This week there's a ton of LifeStuff I need to deal with, which I'm not looking forward to, but c'est la vie.

I generally don't do these sorts of posts - but I'm feeling the urge to be journaly-sociable, so here we go...

This weekend catya was away at Twilight Covening, so Zach was with me all weekend. This is one of the few times he and I get to spend time just-us together at Mosaic, and I was admittedly a little nervous about how it would go, but excited at having that focus time.

Friday
* Decided to have a movie night, and set up the common house great room into 'movie theater' mode, with a big white sheet (courtesy of dbang) as the screen. The movie was Young Frankenstein which at least 2 folks in the audience hadn't seen before. Had between 10 and 15 people in watching, and qwrrty got a good picture in.. Zach was very grumpy and wasn't interested in watching a new movie, and got bored during the credits (remember when credits were shown at the BEGINNING of a movie?), but wandered back in to see some classic moments.

Saturday
* In the morning, went to the karete class Zach's been attending with another Mosaic family. I met with the owner, and got information on signing Zach up for more classes. It was great watching him go through his forms - he's 'got it' in ways that's pretty cool to watch.
* Afternoon, it was off to Honkfestwith my mom. We took the train in from Alewife to make the parking tolerable, and all in all it went great. I posted lots of pictures a flickr photo set. Met friends and introduced Mom to Anna's burritos and generally had a great time. And, of course, Emperor Nortons totally rocked.

Sunday
* Had a common house meal in the morning cooked by winged_faerie. Deeeelish. Breakfast burritos! Spent a chunk of the day doing basic geekery stuff, like learning how to pull pictures off my camera using iPhoto and putting them up on flickr. * Later went out for a beautiful walk around Gates Pond. Talk about the perfect weather day. I wrote up a post on Planet Geek! about it.
* Went out to dinner at the Hudson Chinese Food Buffet - a sort of face-down feeding trough loosely based around chinese food buffets - with a bunch of other Mosaic folks. Good company and chat and Good Dumb Food.

Monday
* Had a friend of Zach's from his school over for the day, so got them settled in this morning, then took a lazy late morning to watch the installation of our new patio continue (YAY!), while shepherding the hordes in and out of the house.
* Spent an hour or so finally figuring out the proper procedure for setting up the fan timers in our houses (we have super-insulated homes - they must be ventilated, particularly in the winter, to prevent the humidity from getting out of hand).
* Did laundry.
* In the afternoon, painted the kids room in our common house. This is sort of the next step to getting that room up for regular usage. Can't really unpack toys and games and set things up without the walls painted. Now they're painted (even trimmed it), but needs one quick touchup session after everything dries.
* After catya got home, took an hour to go out and get dinner by myself. Ahhhhh. I do love being around the kids and the community, but it was nice to just sit down and read and have a cheeseburger.
* Tonight had ice cream with some more mosaicers (Ice cream? On the coldest night of the year? Huh!)

All in all - busy, but not too busy. Fun, but not overtaxing. I am totally going back to the Gates Pond walk soon. So gorgeous. If we can figure out how to walk over there from here (there's a lot of private property in the way, even though it's less than a mile), that would be totally awesome.

So. WoW is sorta fun.