A plethora of updates

Ok, I'm tired, but I promised more updates. Christmas - If anyone remembers my post from last year I was wondering about the conspiracy of my family to give me alcohol or alcohol related gifts. This year I got 4 bottles of wine, 2 wine glasses, a wine carrier for two bottles of wine, and a set of 8 retro Tom Collins glasses complete with the recipe...

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Transition Complete

Okay I've fully completed moving my entire blog over to blogger.com from the old site. My friend Kyle, who's been so graciously hosting this system, has gotten laid off, and with that has lost his space to put the server. He's going to give me a redirect so that you can still go to http://mist.thepond.com. You can also go directly to http://criostal.blogspot.com/. That's...

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Don't Rain on my parade!

Ok so I got back from Direct Tire last tuesday at about 7 and was all set to get ready and go skiing. I walked into my apartment and the first thing I noticed was an acrid smell, then I noticed it sounded like it was raining inside my apartment. I turned on the light and then immediately turned it off again as I saw that water was streaming down...

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Gotta Love Stupid People

So I'm waiting at Natick mall to get my tires fixed on my car and I sit down to rest a bit at the food court. Just for the hell of it I check out the wireless and low and behold there's an AP available that's named "default" with no password at all. I'm currently surfing the web with it right now. When will people learn that they need to secure...

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Let it SNOW!!!

Ahhh the beauty of winter snowfall. The flakes glide slowly upon the ground and build and build until it begins to accumulate. It continues to do this until everything is covered by the white powder. The wind blows it around creating drifts that are crisp, clean and unspoiled by any disturbance of any kind. The beauty is just breathtaking. That...

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Bittersweet Irony

This was in the Boston Globe today. The artcile is: Churches Oppose Bill on Disclosure The URL is here The line which is priceless is: ''Many churches have deep historical memories of an experience of undue influence by the state in the affairs of the church, and thus many churches are wary of giving the state unnecessarily intrusive powers over...

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Bid Night

Well Bid night went well this year. Its still continuing at the moment I assume but I've heard of no problems thus far and things seemed to be very calm. We got 22 great guys so we'll have a good and manageable size class this year. At this point posutlancy begins and the molding of the boys into men of Alpha Cho Rho begins. They will learn the...

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