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News ·Thursday November 15, 2007 @ 21:46 EST (link)

20071024: Bad driver: ~1830, white Volvo V70 station wagon WA 919 SIZ failed to yield entering WA-520E near Avondale.

20071028?: Another Volvo: White? Volvo SUV, passing on the right turn lane going down Novelty Hill, WA 585 NNK.

20071025: Drinking the last of the Ribena (a concentrate blackcurrent drink from the UK); I brought back 3 bottles from Canada at the beginning of September. Checking in (BB tests look good). Glad I investigated; first run hit asserts in some debug code I'd added.

20071025: Have a date for US citizenship oath ceremony: Thursday, November 15 @ 1400.

20071027: Honey wrote - great grandmother's funeral (she lived to be 100).

20071101: Started reading/watching more financial news (naturally the Fool figures highly in the list). From Warren Buffet's 2006 letter to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders:

Berkshire will pay about $4.4 billion in federal income tax on its 2006 earnings. In its last fiscal year the U.S. Government spent $2.6 trillion, or about $7 billion per day. Thus, for more than half of one day, Berkshire picked up the tab for all federal expenditures, ranging from Social Security and Medicare payments to the cost of our armed services. Had there been only 600 taxpayers like Berkshire, no one else in America would have needed to pay any federal income or payroll taxes.

Heh. Also, this is probably about when I finished Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide (Orson Scott Card).

20071110: Perl modules work: released HTTP::Parser 0.04 (2 bug fixes) and Net::SSH2 0.18 (was 0.10, now syncing to the libssh2 version) with several fixes and updates. (Some glitch in CPAN made it take a few days to update, so I held off the announcement until I saw it up there.)

20071115: Citizenship ceremony. Left at 1300 (after a meeting at work 1200-1300, arrived at the doors at 1:55, but the security guy said they wouldn't start until everyone was in the auditorium; long line). It actually started at around 1250: few announcements, short movies, the director read names and handed out 94 certificates of citizenship, and they gave out voter registration forms on the way in and picked them up on the way out. Done at perhaps 1530; got back to work at 1615.