Chris Hansen’s blog

In many societies, the powers-that-be still deny rights to women, sexual minorities, and minority racial groups. However, only in New Jersey are the rights of inflatable rats in question.

I can assure you that I have never travelled into or out of Birmingham Airport. However, one person who did, luckily anonymously, will have occasioned the screeners some moments of levity.

• 09:11 morning tweeters. #
• 11:48 off to make lunch now. had a lovely chat with @mrpandabehr and got some work done, oddly enough. #
• 14:37 @chrys my blackberry is wending its way to me from the repair shop… #
• 20:24 @jmspool : try riding in a tuk-tuk in the centre of Bangkok. Your whole life flashes before you… #
• 20:24 had dinner: roast chicken, cheddar mash, carrots, salad. #
• 23:07 good night tweeters. finished off the Church Times–quite enjoyed Word from Wormingford this week. #

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• 07:49 @MrPandaBehr : my pleasure! i will look around the bookshops there with a chinese speaker as well–i love to buy books there! #
• 07:52 morning tweeters. off to breakfast and church shortly, then lunch at Belgo with HWMBO and ThaiMark (no twiiter). #
• 12:27 @boyshapedbox : kind of like skinny dipping, I suppose. Skinny spinning? We want pics, by the way! #
• 19:35 @helenroper : i heard a conference lecture by him a few years ago that was somewhat incoherent…we left wondering what he’d said. #
• 19:38 have to reboot…no browser seems to be able to connect at the moment…maybe a BT problem but will reboot first before I panic. #
• 21:29 @boyshapedbox : i miss Castro Street. Say hi! to 595 Castro near 19th…right next door to Harvey Milk’s photo shop. #
• 23:06 goodnight tweeters…a week of work and a course awaits me… #

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• 09:24 @MrPandaBehr : Outback is great! I go at least twice whenever I go to Massachusetts. BTW, I’m enquiring about the book you asked about. #
• 09:25 @fonsus : Hug! #
• 09:26 morning all. off to the Tate this afternoon, I think. HWMBO is the Social Secretary so it’s up to him where we go. #
• 13:22 @soveren : you didn’t miss much, and it’s probably on reruns or iPlayer somewhere. #
• 13:24 had lunch, HWMBO thinks weather is too awful to venture out in (not raining tho) so it will be a quiet day indoors for us. #
• 15:39 There was nothing in Cardinal Newman’s coffin except a brass plate and some scraps of cloth. Love conquers all! #
• 23:07 good night tweeters. off to the land of Nod. #
• 23:09 @jspin : i’ve already voted absentee…now i’m just going to watch and hope. #
• 23:11 @juzzywuzzy : no they aren’t. The 3 best words to hear in England are: “Warm with sunshine” in the weather report. We rarely hear them. #

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• 08:27 morning tweeters all. actually working at home today and a meeting late in the afternoon. #
• 10:53 got my assignment for the banking proposal so will fall to it this afternoon. #
• 17:18 @juzzywuzzy : crocs store, good to know. will be certain to drop by there when i’m in singapore in a few weeks’ time. #
• 17:20 @BrianHeys : i just uploaded a new driver into my Voyager 2500, w00t. exciting day! #
• 17:21 @boyshapedbox : well, you’re awesome all over, i hope your inside matches the awesome on the outside soon. #
• 17:21 just spent £1300 on ISEB Practitioner’s course in Test Management. Hope I pass and that it makes me more employable. #
• 20:31 @jallen285 : i’ll send good thoughts your way that you’ll be one of the best… #
• 20:32 we’re back from SuperFish–I had haddock, he had Masters Special (cod). I don’t like fish but the things one does for love… #
• 20:33 Little Britain USA on at 21:30…hope it’s better than the last season of Little Britain #
• 22:42 Little Britain USA was not quite a steaming pile, but close to it. Sad; they really need to think of something else to do. #
• 22:42 time to retire, tweeters. play nice, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. #

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…and many happy returns of the day.

• 08:48 morning tweeters. meeting this afternoon I think, then gym. otherwise pretty laid back. 20th anniversary of me becoming an Anglican today! #
• 13:52 off to a meeting…what a pain. #
• 17:53 meeting was cancelled at the last minutes before i left home for it. went to the gym then shopped for dinner. #

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Twenty years ago today I was received into the Episcopal Church at the Church of the Holy Apostles at 28th St. and 9th Avenue in New York City.

It’s been quite a wild ride, and I’m not through yet. I’m thankful that I found this haven from guilt and knownothingism.

reminds me that I took some pictures of us in Marblehead and I hadn’t posted them. Profuse apologies, and here they are:

The Old Town House was “City Hall” for Marblehead until the 1880’s. It was the police station until the 1960’s. and I walked around town for what seemed hours, and I took a picture of her in front of the Old Town House steps (no equal access laws back then!).

insisted that would not believe that we had indeed met unless there was a group picture. We tried many times, and this one was the best out of them–I’m crap at taking pictures at arm’s length. I think it’s a talent confined to the young, who are always taking pictures of each other with their mobile phones. Anyway, we were indeed together and this is the proof!

• 08:05 morning tweeters. nice day today. lunch with ex cow orkers then a meeting at work. hopefully both will go well. #
• 16:43 back from lunch with @tug and david n. (no twitter) and a work meeting. RFP from a bank that’s being taken over…huh? #
• 21:10 @jallen285 : get a dye job (don’t forget the eyebrows). then white hair won’t matter. #
• 21:12 dinner finished, hate the low signal on my wireless internet radio. faugh! #

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Normally here in the UK, few cash machines accept deposits. However, in the United States, most of them do. If you do pay cheques into your ATM, you might find that you have to be careful which buttons you press. I particularly liked the reporter’s assertion in the last paragraph–it should give the banks pause.

…and many happy returns of the day!