As the clock ticks towards a new year
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DukkhaWaynhim
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No, chances are it was Windows Vista that caused the PC grief. Never have I had so many migration issues as getting things from my old PC to my new one - Vista bad for migration. Now that I don't have to do anything out of the ordinary with it - now that I simply sigh in weary submission instead of fume every time I get permissions-elevation spammed by Vista - now I'm less vehement.
I don't know where the black-eyed peas tradition came from, but I believe it is a Southern US thing, versus the boiled cabbage (boiled with a penny, of course) or sauerkraut which my family prefers to ring in the new year. That's a German thing, I think.
dw
I don't know where the black-eyed peas tradition came from, but I believe it is a Southern US thing, versus the boiled cabbage (boiled with a penny, of course) or sauerkraut which my family prefers to ring in the new year. That's a German thing, I think.
dw
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Yeah, black-eyed pees and collared greens. Never heard of it until I spent New Year's with the in-laws (Georgia).
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner