I just took the slut test at thespark.com and got the following results: .

I also took the personality test and I'm a: Submissive Introvert Abstract Feeler like 12% of the population. How many choices are there? Last night I took the sex test but this morning I remembered I answered some of the questions wrong. The tests aren't really designed for old married people.

First of all, Google has a 20 year archive of Usenet now. This is unbelieveably cool. You can find historic first posts linked to this page.

In other news, I had a run of 4 consecutive days with blog posts. A new world record. But then I dropped off. This is harder than it looks.

I wrote the PamNewsletter on December 1st but here it is the 13th and I still haven't mailed them. I've handed out about 6 and today mailed out about 12. Otherwise they are still sitting here. I started to get them done but I'm not sure what happened.

Today we had our "company xmas party." This is a small joke at our firm because there are only 3 people so we make jokes about having "staff meetings" and when we had our new phone system installed we had an extra phone installed which sits on a table about 4 feet from my desk and we call it the conference room.

For lunch we went to Abou Karim which is just about my favorite place to eat. I think we've gone there 8 of the last 9 company xmas parties. We always get the mezza (?sp?) platter which I could eat once a week. Can I legally change my name to hummus? After lunch we did a new thing and we went to OMSI and saw Everest. I've never seen an IMAX picture before and for the first 15 minutes I thought we were going to see Abou Karim's sprayed everywhere. But once I got used to it I loved it. And if you've read Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air it adds a whole new dimension.

In other news, Kenman is going to be in Vancouver on Dec. 19 so I have a buddy to go to Lord of the Rings with. I'm wondering if I can re-read the book this weekend.

That reminds me I was going to write a whole post about my reading strategy but I will save that for later.

Also, I believe this post is the record holder for linkage in the history of me doing this.

The 2001 Volume 11, December 2001 PamNewsletter is finished and posted. The web version is a little longer and has 1 extra picture and doesn't include the Bob page that will be included with the paper version. My first version was padded to fit into 4 pages, but then Bob came through with his page and it made sense to cut it back down so the whole newsletter would be only 4 pages. To send out more seemed to ask a lot of our readers.

We saw another movie this weekend: Waking Life which was directed by Richard Linklater who also did Dazed and Confused. I can't recommend this one. I don't think it was bad but I don't know many people who would enjoy sitting through it. It was like sitting through an academic lecture. I'm glad I saw it but if I had known what it was like I probably would have picked something different seeing as how there are about 8 movies on the list right now.

I think someone (?) spread a bucket of gravel on the gravel part of our driveway. It seems like a bizarre, random thing to do, but there is a fresh patch of gravel in the middle that's different from the rest of the gravel. Why would anyone do this? Is it a hint? Is our gravel tired looking to someone? Some utility has been doing some work on our street -- maybe they had an extra bucket they needed to dump somewhere so they just tossed it on our driveway? It doesn't make sense any way you look at it.

Bob and I decided not to do Arts & Lectures this year and try some new things instead. The first thing we did was join the Portland Art Museum and saw that modern art show.

For the holidays we got a flier from them that they have a members night with music and cheese and wine and we could check out the European Masters exhibit. That was Wednesday and we decided to go but Weds am I noticed that you were supposed to RSVP. I assumed it wasn't that important but I called just to make sure and good thing because the event was full.

Instead, we went to see Ghostworld at the KOIN. We loved it. If I would have seen it before Halloween I would have dressed up as Enid. Maybe I'll dress up as Enid for Christmas.

I can't believe I forgot to write the latest on Dearthlink. I got a call shortly before Thanksgiving and the guy assured me that I no longer needed to worry about being sent to collections, that they'd gotten information from Teleport that confirmed that I'd prepaid up to the date I said I'd prepaid to.

The call was quite a shock seeing as how I've provided copies of items that prove I prepaid twice by fax and once by snail mail as well having a lengthy, unpleasant conversation over the phone with a "customer service" person who assured me that my account was settled.

I spent an unbelievable amount of time dicking with the archives and I can get them to work from the mainpage -- but if you click on an archive from an archive you get a file not found and somehow it's looking for an extra level and I don't know how to fix it and have run out of patience for now.

I saw Harry Potter on Friday. I felt about it the same way I felt about the books: I liked it, I didn't love it. I didn't sense that it was an instant classic. The special effects were great and the casting was great. It was completely fun. There was just some level that I didn't connect to make me love it.

It's been endlessly raining and storming and it's starting to get to me. We haven't been able to go for a walk for several days. Today we saw a break and by the time we put on our shoes it was raining again. We went anyway and it was too wet and cold to be enjoyed and I was happy to turn around early.

I'm working on Pam Newsletter 2001 and I can't find anything interesting to write about. There weren't any good pictures either. I'm not sure what this means.

I made cookies this afternoon and I think my oven is disintigrating. Everything takes longer to cook than the directions say. I'm not in the mood to deal with appliance repair at the moment.