1 December 2000
	Last year: I was Santa Claus.
	I had a really good day yesterday. It wasn't actually a great day, but it was the kind of steady, enjoyable day that really make life good. I got a lot of work done, and my project at work is back ahead of schedule. It reached a major milestone yesterday as well, which always feels good. At the same time I was working on that, Karen and I were e-mailing each other like wild women, mostly getting some stuff straight for the MeadeHall session, but generally having a good time.   When I got home, Matt's birthday package from Karen had arrived. She really outdid herself this time. (This one-upmanship has really got to stop...) She gave him presents along the theme of "swashbuckling" - mostly books. And the card had been written up like the chapter page of an old adventure novel: "Chapter VIII - Wherein we study the Adventures of a Spaniard in the New World." Like that. (That, by the way, was the clue - as best I can remember it this morning - for the book The Mask of Zorro, which Karen says started this whole thing.) I think my favorite part was "Part the Third: Wherein we discover we are not yet Bankrupt."   After the Hall session, I decided I was going to attempt the chocolate fudge. I'd bought the baker's chocolate at the grocery store earlier, so I went downstairs and started measuring sugar.   One...   Two...   Two and a half... Huhn. I'm short. Well, no matter, there's still part of a bag in the pantry...   Unless there isn't. How on earth could I have gone through an entire five-pound bag of sugar in one week???   By making four batches of fudge (at three cups of sugar each) in one weekend, that's how. So I'll have to go back to the store tonight and pick up some sugar (two bags this time, perhaps) so I can make the fudge. Somehow, I feel like I've been flimflammed.   So I did what any red-blooded geek would do. I went back upstairs and played a video game until I could barely keep my eyes open anymore.   Word of the Day: flimflam - subject to deception or fraud; trick
	Currently Reading: - A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin   Current Projects: - ornaments
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