Thanksgiving Pictures

Just a quick assortment of pictures from the holidays:

First off, Alicia and I attended the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade:



Here's the crowd from left to right:




I guess we had to expect it would be busy: this is Time Square in New York City.

It actually wasn't bad, though. The police only let a certain number of people through to the parade. We arrived an hour early, so it worked to our advantage.

This girl:



... has pictures on her blog. In fact, she has so many posts about Thanksgiving, it would be awkward to post links to every one of them. They are on the front page right now, but if you're reading this months in the future, check out her posts on December 1st, 2008.

How'd the turkey go, you ask?



Pretty well. We even had a fancy setup for it:



The four place settings were to include Alicia's friend from High School, Tanya, as well as her boyfriend Jorge. It was a great Thanksgiving. Not as good as spending back in Minnesota, mind you, but a fine night indeed.

Update #5

The Great News: Everyone is healthy and happy:



The Good News: The holidays are officially here:



You can tell by the Christmas lights.

The Bad News: The end of the semester is looming. I've got a fair amount to get done, and blogging shouldn't be it. Expect this blog to lie dormant through December 2009.

What I've Thought About: Gotta admit, its the linux computer I built last weekend. It had been in the back of my mind for months. Black Friday (the big sale day after Thanksgiving) presented a $99 19" monitor. The next day, I headed over with Alicia to a computer store and purchased everything I needed to make the computer work.

It's running a AMD Phenom X3 2.4Ghz 64bit processor (meaning it has three processor cores running 2.4Ghz each), 4GB ram, and 500GB. Those components together only cost $230. The case, motherboard, DVD drive and others brought the price up a bit more, but I built it just a bit more expensive than a bottom of the line desktop computer available at any major computer retailer. And it has top of the line specifications. I'm relatively proud.

It's running Ubuntu Linux (as opposed to a Windwos operating system). I've mapped it as a hard drive to both Alicia and my computer, so we can treat it like a file server. I've added a streaming music application so that Alicia and I can listen to our music anywhere in the world. I've got a bunch of more ideas for it, but I just don't have the time to play with it.

Alicia has more on her blog here.

What I've Enjoyed: The Wire. Great show that used to air on HBO. Really top notch stuff. Alicia and I have finished season 2.