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importing comments really stinks. looks like i'm going to have to rewrite my whole script in php. i feel like just quitting.

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i just smoked stoogies with some work homies. pretty good smoke, but it's been like five years since i've smoked a whole cigar myself. whew...

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originally i just uploaded all my blog photos into flickr as is, but since then, i realized that i'd rather upload larger sizes of many of these photos, so i deleted all the pre-flickr photos to be editted, uploaded, tagged, setted(?), and back-linked on some future date. everything except ty because sara randomly commented on that one, haha.oh, as a side benefit, my tags are now accurate.

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apparently the manufacturers of my hula girl somehow did not consider a dashboard placement. the excessive heat caused the glue to melt, and her skirt dropped (inappropriate photo at my flickr account)!

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on my way into work my car rolled over...to 100000 miles! in all my years of car ownership, i've never had this happen, i've always gotten a car just passed 100k, or it died/was totaled before. right when it happened there were no stopping anytime signs, so i pulled over at the first spot wide enough. i've been watching this coming since 99000, so i've been planning the perfect picture to take

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time for pantera!

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my new ink has entered the itch phase.

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apparently i have been to seaworld before. according to my dad it was when i was "very young."

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as hot shards of glass flew across the kitchen toward my wife and son, not a single one hurt them. this piece here landed on a cd case sitting on the counter, becoming one with the case and the insert card below (i had to tear it free). God protected my family today.

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i started tracking the music i listen to at work on june 28, 2005, but was waiting to post the link to my stats page until the ramones were at a respectable possition naturally. the only serious skewing on this is that because i listen to albums, artists who put more tracks on their albums will naturally appear higher. last week the ramones moved up to #2, but it will be a long time before they

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it's tempting...and not lean. i'd better go for a bike right tonight for sure.

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before the big shamu show, seaworld did something really cool. they had all member of the armed forces and their families stand, then we gave them a big round of applause. i loved that, and it felt really good to do.i don't like war. i've disagreed with every war military action we've gotten ourselves into in my lifetime. i'm pretty sure i disagree with the very concept of war. all that

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is it because they do it all the time? if I started spitting all the time, would my spit become not-gross?

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5, 405, 605, 105, lincoln, 1

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and i ain't talkin' 'bout no plastic cup, neither, i'm talking a glass.

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went to sleep wanting to go to the wild animal park, woke up deciding seaworld would be funner. i've never been to either. sea world was great! beer, shamu, sea lions, dolphins, penguins, atlantis (just me), beer, skytower... i liked the dolphins best, which is odd because i think dolphins are pretty creapy. journey to atlantis was the best themed ride i've seen outside of disneyland. very

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feels pretty good so far... aside from the constipation and sore arm...

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we've been planning on going to disneyland tomorrow for my birthday. this evening we realized we forgot the passes. while consulting the dland site to figure out what to do, i noticed that tomorrow is a blackout day! we decide the wild animal park would be a fun substitute. reservations cancel, hotels full, and a miracle move by elaine lands us a swank room!

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at least it seemed to be to the couple fully making out in the restaurant.

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as i rounded the corner, i glanced in my rear view mirror and saw the biggest, most brilliant rainbow ever. it was diving straight into the ocean and i knew i needed a photo. alas, by the time i made it to a spot where i could safely turn around on wet pch, the rainbow was long gone.heading home again, i took this photo instead:

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i haven't riden--rode? rided? i haven't gone for a bike ride since i got puke sick. i should probably do that again. i'm doing pretty good anyways...bypassing jaredb in the race for about a day before he updated his stats. i guess that kicked off a trend because magically dan and dave are passed me too. i only need to take off another pound to launch past all three, though. heh heh...

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quinn never stops eating. at meals, he eats more than johanna. it's weird, but somehow makes sense.

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twice a year, an in-n-out truck comes to the law school and today is that day! i even postponed my birthday lunch 'til next week for it.

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major network problems here at home. i just spent an hour basically resetting everything and starting all over...what a pain! even worse: i didn't get to do the work on the wordpress site i was hoping to do.

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no, i'm not adding joy division to the anthems list, i just organized it as i would create a compilation. mind you, this isn't a best-to-worse tracklist, just a listening order so you can make a compilation album. i did!

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back in november, gnudickens challenged some folks to come up with a "top rock anthems" list. at first i figured i couldn't participate, but my christmas gift of an ipod forced me to start thinking about music in terms of songs, not albums. all i needed to do was export my shuffle's song list and start removing tunes! many painstaking reductions later, i got it down to a solid 30 songs. these

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some good people we don't even really know lost their new son yesterday. just 44 days of life and he's gone. God, it's so heartwrenching... again and again, everyone we know will die.

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"there's two kinds of hearts: ones Jesus lives in and ones you eat."

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i'm getting a lot of email to the law school's webmaster address. lazy people that don't want to look up the dean's easily guessable address just write to "me" to complain. if you keep up on the news you know why.

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a coworker commandeered my ibook and lent us (lisa) a dell for the weeks she needs it. she's doing some presentations for the dean and needs iwork for it. anyways, lisa's already unhappy with this arrangement because i don't know the guest login. she commandeered the desktop for a while...man, that drove me crazy.

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it really is...it's like it was animated by thomas kinkade (tm), there's always a hard light coming from someplace. even in scenes where there's not really a logical reason...every building has a skylight. but really, it ended up reflecting the overall mood of the film. all the characters were glowy...smiles, positive people, the antagonist really just wanted a relationship with his father...

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i found a weird bump on the inside of my cheek, reached in and lightly touched it with a thumb...it popped!

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you can never go wrong with westerns.

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you can read about joey's bummer on lisa's blog. when we told her we needed to go home we were about 10 feet from the theater door. we had our popcorn and everything. she's been looking forward to this for months and she had it taken away from her at nearly the last possible second. she started crying and our hearts broke. everytime i think about it my eyes well up.i do want to say that

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17 student teams, a staff team, a faculty team, and a public safety team competed in the second annual law school dodgeball tourney. this was my first year as a competitor and, as predicted, my staff team, staff infection, did not advace to second heat of the brackets. i'm proud to say i was the very first member of the team to get out...on the very first throw of the game. i stayed in a bit

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wow, i feel 110% better. i'm really ready to hustle and give it my all. i'm back at work and repeating the five d's in preparation for this afternoon.

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i finally got around to installing the 64mb card erich gave me (thanks, homie!)! now i can finally play star wars battlefront!this is why i don't post anything tech or gadget related, hahaha!

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i really want popcorn. movie theater popcorn. the only thing i've had since lunch yesterday is cereal this morning. plus i puked up breakfast and lunch from yesterday. the only thing i'm hungry for is popcorn.

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i woke up on my own feeling pretty good today, but knew it would be really stupid to try to go to work. so i went back to sleep (after getting joey started on her nick/choc milk/breakfast morning ritual). lisa woke me up at 8am so i could call in sick and now i'm definitely feeling it again. 99.8

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it started yesterday with the bike ride and then all day today i felt really fatigued. on the car ride to lunch with david a wave of nausea came over me, but i fought it off and thought nothing of it. i continued to deteriorate all day and started to feel really sick to my stomach about the time i got home. i didn't feel like dinner and afterwards i took a shower. i was sick of having that

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yesterday i had almost no energy for my bike ride. today i'm really dragging through work. my lunch soda didn't help at all.

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also, my hair is covering my ears now...i wonder if i should get it trimmed back a bit?

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it isn't official yet, but i'm actually excited about this. i'll be getting a bigger space with pretty high cubical walls and a real desk! i was offered an office in exclusion on the third floor, but that would just be ridiculous. it's temporary until they gut the entire area, which will happen in the semi-near future. more about it as things develope.

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can you manually rearrange the order of the photos? or does it have to be based on creation date/upload date?

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tonight's ride took me all the way out to video super shop and longs. a half hour each way. it's so much more interesting to ride outdoors than on those ridiculous contraptions at the gym. plus, because of balance i feel like i'm getting a real, full body workout, not just tired legs.

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mike had a hula girl on his desk since christmas and announced that he was done with her. i took her for my dashboard and noticed that the guy that wrote the features list on the packaging was having a particularly good day:fun bobbing actionspring action hipsadhesive mount

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as soon as lisa gets back from shopping i'm gonna take off on what will surely prove to be an excellent adventure! bike + beer + dark = fun for all!

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these are the kulana moon dog (mine, green) and sun fish (lisa's, purple). six speed, caliper break, $99 beach cruisers. i'm lovin' 'em!

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how soon after the super bowl should i weigh myself to find out exactly how much i just set myself back? thanks to the dickenseses for providing an excellent game watching environment.

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now i just need to rearrage everything you see in this photo to make real room for it...

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since we were up way too late last night, and lisa's been feeling under the weather, she let me sleep in this morning in exchange for me taking the kids to the bridge while she had a nap. it worked out nice, but alison pointed out that it sucks how couples with kids have to take turns to have times of rest. we're pretty grateful to have our parents so close by, giving us lots of opportunities

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quinn got a million compliments for his hair, we got a new couch for the garage from the bfc sale, we got our bikes, we played at the park, we had a nice dinner out with my parents, and lisa and i had a nice evening together. details on the couch and bikes later...

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a 9:30am eye appointment?!

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chiggity check it, yo

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cafe press is having and anti-valentine's day contest, and since we're pretty anti-anti-valentine's day, aaron and i decided to make some tkc v-day shirts and enter them in the contest. they didn't end up being quite as obviously anti-anti as we were hoping, but we still like them a lot.boys: 'til deathgirls: the best mistake you'll ever make

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my parents only let me drink soda on rare occasions growing up, so as soon i was in jr. high, i started spending my allowance on that blessed forbidden fruit. soon i discovered that 7-11 sold huge sodas for just a buck! and more is better, right? riding my bike out to 7-11 happened every once in a while, but when i started driving, i made stops every day before and after school. from age 16-

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this morning i'm feeling pretty good, even without the caffine. i've been off non-water drinks until lunch for three days now and i'm actually holding together pretty good. that wasn't so bad at all – easiest habit i've had to kick yet!

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i was tired, ready for bed, it was 9:50pm and i didn't want to go for my nightly walk. i asked lisa what i should do for encouragement. she told me to sprint around the block. three times. no walking. as fast as you can. "and then it'll be my turn." two minute stretch stop between laps.so i stretched...and ran. to the end of the street, doing great, left turn and heading up the slope.

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tow knee chavez did some original designs for shirts that you should buy if you wanna be cool. yeah, i know a lot of people are doing shirts these days...and we are too!aside from a large section of stuff with tkc logos, you can also get the inside joke shirt same: the other opposite, make a political stand with return to masonry america, and by popular demand, you can even pick up your very own

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is anyone having a super bowl party? am going to have to have my own? somebody call it, because i have the smallest tv of all of you.

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i was considering doing it anyways (just because i never liked the idea of artificial sweeteners), but after dave's suggestion i put my plan to action. my only drink this morning will be water until lunch time. it's 10:15 and i might face plant onto ma023ijoq;ed 888888888888888888888888888azserrrrrrrrrrrrd

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for the past couple (maybe three?) weeks i've been on time to work everyday! this is a huge success for me. then monday i just couldn't do it, i was kicking myself for it, but i showed up at 10am. i just needed a serious sleep in.this morning i was all ready to walk out the door at 6:45 (which is when i have to leave to get to work at 8am) when lisa told me she felt sick and needed to sleep

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i felt the car fly over the hill and knew, took my foot off the gas to slow back to the speed limit, glaced in the mirror and saw a police cruiser closing fast. pull to the right hand lane and hope he's heading somewhere...nope. shit!so i says no idea and he says speeding, i says 60 and he says 68, i says 55 and he says 50, and i says clean record and he says wait here. so i wait and wonder

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a slip of the finger and my long post is gone. this time i'm typing into my phone's note pad. i'm halfway done woth my first nightly walk and i'll type the other story later. passed an old man walking to the old folks' home with a grocery bag, his footing didn't look too sure. i stopped at jack in the box to pee...amazing just how nice hot water feels after but a few minutes in the cold.

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i need to start walking everyday.

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it's back! it's almost like it never left! it's...560 calories (210 from fat).

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not available on tv anywhere. :-(

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brightly colored signs indicating where various filmings are occuring are pretty common around malibu, i usually pay them no mind. on my way home, i past one that said, "gilmore!" i quickly called lisa to ask permission to sneak onto set. permission denied. there went my big chance. i was pretty awesomely dressed, so i would've fit right in, maybe even gotten a walk on role. all black with

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we've been threatening to give him a mohawk for a while, but everytime we think about it, we see a ton of kids with it. i guess we finally decided we don't mind, or there aren't as many kids with it anymore... we were looking at his hair yesterday and decided. this morning we did it first thing.i got his hair sticking up really good at first, but he had knocked it down quite a bit before i got

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with the use of my parent's wheelbarrow work on the rock move went a bit quicker today. unfortunately, we were far from finishing. looks like it's put off til next week.

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they claim it was never really a secret, but we all know better. they also left off a few items, like the flying dutchman.

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our back yard is covered in rocks. if we're going to plant that grass for lisa, we've got a ton of rocks to move to the side yard. lisa helped with the shoveling, but i did all the carrying in that five gallon bucket. i figure we're maybe a third done, probably closer to a quarter. i was hoping to get them all moved this weekend, but unless i am amazingly motivated, it's not gonna happen.

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my new guitar is named sheri. she (an epiphone wildkat) was last on the list and i wasn't really planning on getting her this soon. however, epiphone is doing limited edition guitars right now and one of them was the wildkat in "metallic red." i was never too excited about the turquoise and antique natural stock colors, but it was the special price that pushed me into getting her now.the p-90

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i'll post more about her later tonight...and about why my whole body hurts.

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they're using the food, water, and potty. i guess they just had to get used to the elevation difference.

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yesterday it left lenexa, ks. it arrived in shawnee, ks at 1:48 this morning, and left again at 5:50am. it will be here saturday. i can hardly stand the wait!

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thank to dan for letting me know about google updating their imagery, now i can finally see what my home looks like from above. these shots must still be old though, because we don't own a red car. unless that's my parent's car by random chance.assuming these were shot at the same time, these were done about six months ago, based on the construction that went on near our old place.

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it's an important part of my spiritual journey. the weekly meals were my favorite part of old school bridge, and gathering in people's homes to converse and find God is still so vital. prayer is huge, especially in these times of transition, but with prayer, conversations of hope with families and future families are key to revealing God's will in my life, not to mention our comminity's.greg

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funny how a single object can tell a story to a stranger. i just saw the rose, but two hearts were broken here. tears, screaming, frustration...it's all there.

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joey has my gym tuesday nights and we usually end up eating pizza at bottleworks afterwards. tonight i have a large salad and a single slice of pizza, but i still couldn't resist having a brew. they have at least a couple dozen different beers so i picked one that had an interesting bottle.only after i sat down did i read the label and notice that st. peter's english ale was organic (if only it

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lisa's been bugging me about baby proofing the house forever. this mostly meant securing cabinets and what not (boooring), but it also involved coming up with a solution for keeping quinn out of the cat box/food/water.the cats are having a hard time adapting and haven't eaten much food. plus, shaft shit and pissed on the doormat on the garage side of the door...at least it wasn't in the house.

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thanks to gnudickens for this amazing link. if you just want the best, check out the top 30.

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we were loading the kids into the car, and there was a middle aged woman getting into the car next to us with her mother. as soon as she saw lisa close johanna's door on her side, she gassed it out of the parking space. lisa was still between the cars; i was behind our car, and she backed my way. she was like a foot from hitting my shopping cart and less than that from clipping lisa with her

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for a guy that cried in bed last night, i'm surprizingly upbeat today. with all the sickness, we just let the maintainance of life slip away. after two weekends of maintainance, things are starting to feel less out of control.

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well, it's not going to happen this week. now lisa is saying she isn't so sure about getting bikes and doesn't want to rush into it. this of course goes against everything i hold dear as a 21st century american...i'm going crazy.

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we're all exhausted, no idea why. we slept in. we went out, had lunch with my parents, went to lowes, and johanna fell asleep in the shopping cart.

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jared's post made me think that i should post what serieseses (seri?) i have my dvr set to record. especially since i didn't watch tv much before i got it.late night with conan o'briandaily show with jon stewartlate show with david letterman (i only watch the friday episodes and the episodes with interesting guests)saturday night liveglmore girlsthe boondocksthe simpsonsfamily guycriss angel

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urgentnot urgentimportant12not important34

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sometimes i think that i like making to do lists just so i can say, "yeah, i'll get to those later" and be spontaneous. if it's written down, i can get it off my mind.it's been years since the last time lisa and i laid on the couch in the dark, just talking.

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once upon a time i had a student worker. she rocked and was really good with web stuff, but alas, students graduate. she went off to law school and i tried a couple other student workers, but none of them worked out. my job listing sat unanswered for two years which brings us to now. i have a new student worker and she starts tomorrow! looks like i get to be a boss again! this will really

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lisa wants to get us bikes with her christmas money. just bikes, cruisers, classic bikes. the real deal. no gears, no handle bar breaks, no shocks, just two wheels, a frame, a seat, and some handle bars. no one carries real bikes anymore. it's all mountain bikes, or street racers. we don't own any spandex, are we going to have to mail order these things?!

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there's a group of people all doing pictures of batgirl...like close to 1000 contributers so far. this is mine...i love greyscale and pink.

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joey: I like pirate's bootylisa: daddy likes mommy's booty

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and the moral of the story is: i'm crazy.

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i love the death metal episode of strong bad email.

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i was chatting with eric when i got in this morning and without even thinking about it, i slipped my hand into mike's candy jar and popped a hershey's kiss into my mouth (not a euphemism). about halfway through chewing it, i realized what i was doing. did i spit out the chocolate? hell no. am i starting to realize just how often i snack on empty calories throughout the day? definitely.

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