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As silly as this question might seem, I would appreciate if you could answer this. I am... gathering data for myself. I'm sure you can piece together why, but I will refrain from more details so as to minimize a potential bias.
In the hypothetical or non-hypothetical situation in which you have a significant other, on Thanksgiving, Christmas eve, and/or Christmas day, who were you with and why?
A possible answer could go like this:
I spent Thanksgiving with my friends because my break wasn't long enough to warrant a trip home, but I spent Christmas eve and day with my family. I did not celebrate the holiday with my girlfriend because we have only been dating for a month and I did not want to put that added pressure on the relationship.
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I do not have a partner, but if I had one, I would probably like to go out for a special Christmas dinner with him on Christmas Eve and then spend Christmas day with both my partner and my family, together.
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I do not currently have a boyfriend, but last year, I spent all of the holidays with my previous partner.
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This post is public domain. Feel free to copy and paste where ever you like The combination of the AbiWord word processor and the http://abicollab.net webservice provides world-leading real-time collaborative functionality available nowhere else for any price at all. Now that Fedora 12 is out and distributes AbiWord-2.8 it is easy for Linux users to try it out and see if they find it useful.
My previous blog posts about http://abicollab.net focused on the use of the service from within a browser. You can find them here: 1. Basic operations including how the AbiWord “save” function sends the document back to abicollab.net.
2. How one could go about finding the friend you want to collaborate with.
3. How to setup a real time collaboration
4. The use of Groups, View, Export in abicollab.net AbiWord also has additional hooks back into the webservice that are accessible from within the “collaborate” menu.
To start with we need to establish the connection with the service. This is done with the “account” menu item.
I’ve already got an account set up based on my gmail email address. However if I didn’t or if I wanted another based on a different email address, I just click “add” and fill the details as shown.
Besides the web service one can connect to other AbiWord using either TCP/IP (if you know the IP address) or via the jabber XMPP protocol. The webservice is much easier for users and connect with. Everyone on the internet has an email address.
 Clicking the button on “connect on application startup” means you don;t have to go through this step again. If I now go back to the “collaborate” menu and choose “open shared document”, AbiWord connects to the webservice and presents me with a list of the documents I have to on http://abicollab.netHere are the list of groups and user accounts which contain documents I’m allowed to edit. The 3 Martin Sevior’s show up because I have 3 separate accounts on the service :-)  Of course clicking the table expander arrow shows me all the eligible documents. As you can see I use the service and find it a convenient way to keep my work in synch across my 3 different work environments. (Work workstation, laptop and home PC).  Finally one can upload your current document to the web service. This is a very convenient way to both share your work with your colleagues and to upload it to the service and make it accessible to a different workspace.
To this click on “share document” in the collaborate menu. You have the option of sharing the document with as many of your groups and friends on the service as you wish.  Once uploaded to http://abicollab.net the document is of course available to be shared with your friends and colleagues and easily available at all your work spaces.  Like my previous posts this document has been uploaded to abicollab.net and is available at: https://abicollab.net/documents/embed/17606/latest
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http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/12/finnish-culture.html It's not all that often that we encounter things from Finland here in Portland. So imagine my surprise when we're on our way to our weekly date-night with Tove, and our baby-sitter is gushing about this adorable and wonderful Finnish YouTube video.. She apparently have been watching it three or four times a day for the last few days (weeks?), laughing hysterically. I'm intrigued by this notion, so I look it up, and notice that I am very late to an internet phenomenon. The thing in question is Armi & Danny's "I Want to Love You Tender", which has apparently been a big hit on youtube for several years now. Now, people who aren't from Finland may not realize the whole depth of that video. To an outsider, it may look like some highschool musical number with particularly inept dancing. It's funny, yes, but you go on to watch keyboard cat and dramatic chipmunk. But to somebody from Finland, the first reaction is "I recognize that tune". The second reaction is "Oh, it's them!". That's not some inept highschool musical number, that's one of the most beloved Finnish entertainers ever! Ok, so the version you hear in Finland is in Finnish, and the above is the English version - and Finns back in the seventies weren't really all that good at English. That explains some of it. When I grew up, the Swedes had ABBA and Björn Borg. The Finns had Armi ja Danny. Really. Now I just find myself wishing that we'd have Finnish meal-pouches with musical accompaniments. "Rudolf in a Bag" MRE's (reindeer meat with lingonberries) with Armi and Danny on BluRay. Although I'm not sure I could take the concentrated awesomeness that is "I Want to Love You Tender" in glorious HD. Maybe it's safer in that low-quality YouTube version.
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rocking. back and. forth. back. and. someone is sucking on my little finger. dozing and then sucking. suck suck suck suck my finger is getting pruney we are sleeping in shifts. we are up all night. we are watching loser tv bad movies. comedy. cartoons. documentaries about the spittoons aboard Hitler's personal airship found buried under the rubble consisting mostly of airlifted hershey bars. I'm rockng. back and forth. Tags: pickle
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