Grady is moving to Manhattan soon so Squirrel of Shame played one last gig at Kells with Grady as drummer. Attendance was pretty good considering it was the day before new year's eve, and the drinks were flowing as always.

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Cole woke us up bright and early (read: it was still dark) on Christmas morning so he could see if Santa came. I think there was some doubt he'd make then good list. He must have made it, because there were plenty of treats under the tree for him.

Ok, after what seems like too many late nights I’m finally calling the new theme to Urban Potato done.  I call it Granite, and because I have few design skills on my own I got a lot of the ideas for Granite from SquareSpace’s excellent site.  Hopefully they don’t mind.  This is the first time I’ve built a style from the ground up and gotten it to look like it does in Photoshop.  It’s also the first time I’ve done this against someone else’s HTML and I tried really really hard not to modify the HTML generation of BlogEngine.NET.  Here, I sometimes failed.  I thought it would be useful to document the good and bad parts of the process.

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Ever since Microsoft became too big for a decent holiday party, a group of us have always done dinner and drinks in Seattle. This time was a little more reserved -- it's hard to do serious bar hopping during the holidays. Still, we managed to rent a limo and have a great dinner at Tulio's.  Mike got some really great pictures given the light.  Check it out on Flickr.

Some shots of various Halloween activities for 2009

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