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We interrupt this blog for an important announcement.
2009-04-05 19:32:00
Claudius wanted to be the first man to reach the stars... and maybe he was. Alone, drifting through space with nothing to keep him company but the dot... speck... rock that is drifting there, too, Claudius reflects on what brought him to this point: A spaceship, a dream of reaching the stars he always saw when he closed his eyes... and murder.Eclipse is a Mobius-strip of a psychological horror thriller that takes the reader on a twisting, turning trip through Claudius' troubled childhood, his time at NASA, and a grimy hospital or prison, peeling back layer upon layer of the personality of a boy who could close his eyes and see the stars, a boy who dreamed of reaching those stars... and maybe he did.Eclipse is available for purchase through Lulu.com for as little as $1.25 per download, or $11.50 by paperback. Coming soon to a bookstore near you, but why wait? Click here to buy it now. And, for a limited time, if you are one of the first 50 to purchase the book and send me a picture ...
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Question of The Day: 55
2009-04-05 01:56:00
Do you still worry about pumping the gas to an exact dollar figure when you pay with a credit card?I had to stop to get gas today, and because the Babies! in the car, I used my debit card to pay at the pump. Despite the fact that I wasn't paying with cash, and had no reason to worry about going over or getting change back, I still did that same thing I've done all my life, slowly closing in on $10.00: $9.92. $9.95. $9.99... ah... did it.And each time I do that, I think Why? Why not just stop at $9.97, or $10.01, or $11.37, for that matter? But I don't. It just doesn't seem right, pumping gas to some weird number.
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They are baby geniuses.
2009-04-05 01:49:00
I think maybe the hardest part about parenting-- other than finding a way to keep the pants on the Babies!--is not knowing what's "normal" or not normal. It starts with the pregnancy itself: how much weight should be gained, what should be eaten, how much should the baby kick, how much should the baby NOT kick, and so on. It drove me crazy.Then, once the Babies! are there, it's even worse: should they be sitting up? Holding their heads up? Crawling? Standing? Walking? Running? Talking? Eating this? Not eating that? And other parents around me are no help. I think they're just showing off. I'll say something at the park like "No, they don't talk much yet, they've got maybe 20 words, counting 'banano' as a word," and other parents say something like "Oh, well, my kid's already writing his dissertation for Harvard. He's 1. Your kid sucks."Back when the Babies! were in daycare, there was another set of twins, and I asked one of their parents whether their babies slept ...
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For Want Of A Pen And Paper, The Kingdom Was Lost (I Fought The Library,
2009-04-05 01:11:00
I am fighting the library over their claim that I did not return two DVDs, and I intend to win. Part 1 of this is here.No sooner did I get home yesterday than I found, sitting right on Sweetie's desk, a partially torn-DVD cover for the Baby Galileo DVD I had only just hours before emailed the library about, claiming that I had returned it.Which puts me, I think, on the wrong side, here, morally, at least a little. But I decided how I'd handle it: I would simply take that DVD on Saturday morning, before the library opened, and drop it in the slot, before anyone knew. That would correct the problem, because then I would, in fact, have returned the DVD, just like I said in my email. Of a day earlier. But, what, is timing everything in morality?I had, on Friday night, already, taken back a couple of CDs I borrowed, and dropped those into the after-hours slot, with Sweetie as my witness: I made her come with me and open each and make sure that the proper CD was in there and then...
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There is music that's good for crawling backwards into a cupboard, and musi
2009-04-05 01:03:00
I may not look like the kind of guy who can install a sink, but I am exactly that kind of guy: the kind of guy who, when the faucet to the kitchen sink inexplicably gets broken-- "inexplicably" meaning simply "I can't figure out which kid did it, anymore than I can figure out which kid downloaded spyware onto our computer this morning while I was playing with the Babies! at the mall playground" --But when that faucet inexplicably joins the ranks of the hundreds of vacuum cleaners and toilet seats and once a bed plus our old entertainment center, and breaks for no reason whatsoever, it didn't even phase me. I just put on the old Lisa Hannigan CD (ideal for fixin' stuff) and get out my tools, then realize that I don't have the right tools to fix a sink, my only tools being a sort of jack-knife-y thing that has a variety of wrenches and screwdrivers that flip out (it's like a Swiss Army knife only with screwdrivers), so instead I take the iPod over to the store to pick out the r...
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Sweetie's Hunk of the Week, 8:
2009-04-04 13:27:00
It's Sweetie's Hunk Of The Week : Behind The Scenes!Yesterday, on the way home from work, I asked Sweetie who the "Hunk of the Week" would be. "You," she said. I said she couldn't pick me, and she insisted that she could. I finally said "Fine, I'll pick Ryan Reynolds," and she said "Well, he might be okay." Then, after a pause, she said: "Or Owen Wilson." About which I noted "Well, you did just watch Marley & Me, so that'd be okay."Then, I got home from work, and noticed that the desktop picture on our computer had changed from "Christian Bale Tanning," (a picture Sweetie had put there to replace The Boy's Victoria's Secret models) and instead was Owen Wilson."Did you put this up before, or after, we talked?" I asked Sweetie. Out of deference to her, I'm not going to say what her answer was. So here's Sweetie's Hunk of the Week:Owen Wilson.You/Sweetie Know Him As: The laid-back slacker guy who, in "Marley & Me," got married and had a family and turned int...

It's a real website, I bet. Maybe.
2009-04-04 13:18:00
This is what scares Sweetie about me, just a little, I think: I am capable of sitting at our dining room table, apparently calmly eating a bowl of oatmeal and seemingly reading the paper, and then bust out a comment like this actual quote:"I bet we could simply knock out the wall between the dining room and kitchen and turn that counter into a breakfast bar. Of course, we'd have to find a new place to put the refrigerator."See what a creative guy I am? So far, though, Sweetie has put the kibosh on the knocking out of any walls in any portion of our house, or even of moving the refrigerator. Which means that I am frustratingly trapped in a house that continues to look the exact same way, every day, and which stubbornly is NOT increasing it's resale value and stubbornly persists in not having a breakfast bar.If we lived in Denver, at least, I could probably convince Sweetie to go with this Denver Remodeling outfit, Sugarbush Construction, LLC. They've got a lot of good tips ri...
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Summer Nights (From The Cheesecake Truck To The End Of The Line, Part 2)
2009-04-03 15:43:00
Just before I got married to Sweetie, I made a mixtape to take on our honeymoon road trip to New York. The other day, I found that tape and decided to tell the story of our honeymoon through the songs on that tape. This is part 2. Click here for the table of contents.2. Summer Nights:I met a girl, crazy for me/Met a boy, cute as can be: The first full day of our Honeymoon began with that most romantic of errands, a trip to the grocery store to get some snacks for the drive. Our general plan was this: Drive from Madison, Wisconsin, to Niagara Falls, and then down to New York City. We had one week, a rental car, that mixtape, and not nearly enough money. We had plenty of love, but needed some snacks, too, because day one was to take us from Madison to exotic... Cleveland.The car was rented by my family as part of our wedding present. Back then, Sweetie and I had just our one usual car, the car we ultimately called "Denty," a maroon Hyundai Elantra that Sweetie had bought to use as her...
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Bananos Away: (I Fought The Library, 1)
2009-04-03 15:30:00
I guess I thought it was over.With the finding of The Wild DVD, I thought the library and I could go back to being friends, but I see now that it's not. I took the DVD back yesterday and got my Lensman book and another DVD for the Babies!, and then, at home, later on, I thought to myself Hey, I want to request a book from them, so I went online and logged into my account and noticed that they said I had an overdue DVD, Baby Einstein's Meet The Orchestra.So I checked with Sweetie, and we both agreed: This one, we had returned. We knew we did because we'd checked it out about a month ago, and Mr F and Mr Bunches had loved it (animals playing orchestra instruments, and a piano, which Mr Bunches called a banano), and when we'd taken it back, we'd agreed it was too bad we had to return it.Just to be sure, I checked, though, and it is nowhere in our house. So I am not caving in on this one. I am going to fight the library and prove that they, not I, are wrong.Step one: I emailed the ...
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Chad, we will need to do a background check on you.
2009-04-03 15:24:00
We had a mystery caller at our house for about a week. About 1-2 times per day, someone would call and then hang up if we answered or the machine. Caller ID showed the number, but when we'd call back we'd get no answer or machine or voicemail.I thought maybe it was a client of mine, hoping to get me at home. But if I don't take calls at the OFFICE, why would I take calls at HOME? The mystery was solved on Tuesday, when Middle said "It's probably Chad ," without elaborating. Further questioning revealed little about Chad beyond "He's a guy" and she knows him. We could have solved it faster if we'd used the Phone Number Hunter, an easy-to-use, handy website that lists areas codes for all regions, and also allows reverse phone lookup. I just put the "Chad" number in there and got some background information on him; if it were serious -- like, if he was "A guy" AND he wanted to date Middle, I could get even more information with just a few clicks. I like stuff like that -- i...
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It would have been better to start the day with this (First Thoughts).
2009-04-02 16:40:00
When I came in this morning, I had to start up my ancient computer, which takes (no kidding) 20 minutes. Then I had to restart it because of problems. While I did that, I had to take part in a conference call that ultimately was rescheduled for two months from now. Then I tried to fax a letter. Twice. And it didn't work. So I had to finish rebooting my computer and open up my email and then attach the letter, which nearly caused it to crash.And now it's 9:44 and I've gotten nothing done, but I did find this, which is kind of helping to put me back on track.Update: That's a "response" to this:Which is okay but I like the Beaker better.Update, 2: Now my browser's "Back" button isn't working. My computer is less technologically advanced than a pile of Rice Krispies.
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Quote of the Day, 20
2009-04-02 04:51:00
"The library isn't as good a friend as they pretend to be. I'm getting screwed."-- Me.Tonight, on the way to grocery shopping, Sweetie and I had to stop at the library to return some of the boys' DVDs and so I could pick up The Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1, (which I decided I wanted to read after the Lens was nominated as The Best Superhero Gadget over on The Best of Everything).I had my stuff all ready to check out, and I'd corraled Mr F, who'd gone in with me. That, Mr F coming in, had already caused problems, because at the last minute Mr F decided he did not want to return one of the videos and I couldn't get him to give it up, so we were going to keep that another week.Anyway, I was ready to check out and then the guy said "Um, there's a problem." I thought the problem was a mix-up over a previous DVD I'd returned, which they said wasn't returned but I know I did, and I even had seen it on the shelf, but before I could explain that, he said that we hadn't r...
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I'll take bids on the Packer football, but I'll never part with the Flutie
2009-04-02 04:41:00
I have only two things that could properly be considered sports collectibles: my football autographed by every member of the Superbowl-winning, Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packer s, and my far-more-valuable photo of me standing in front of Doug Flutie's empty locker in Buffalo.I bet that latter one is priceless. But I've had my hands on some other sports memorabilia. I had an autograph from former Packer Brent Fullwood. And I got Bo Ryan and Barry Alvarez to autograph some junk for my father-in-law. All in all, though, kind of a sad collection, given how much I love sports. I was thinking about that tonight because I was browsing around "Authentic Sports Collectibles.com," a site that sells... authentic sports collectibles. I browsed over there in the first place because The Boy's birthday is coming up, and if anything, he's more of a sports nut than I am, and I thought maybe getting him some autographed stuff might be kind of cool -- we checked out a store once when we were on...
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Blackmailing Matt, 2:
2009-04-02 04:29:00
My plan to blackmail my brother Matt into posting the video of him trying to learn to surf in a mall has not yet paid off -- which means my plan to then turn that video into an ongoing series (called "Matt Does Crazy Stuff,") has also not yet paid off.But I was serious: I'm going to continue to try to prove to him that there are worse things than having an embarrassing video of yourself on the Internet. "Worse things" in this case being a list of made-up, but possibly true facts about Matt:Matt didn't cave in the face of Macarena-related embarrassment, claiming instead to have caught an 18-pound virtual fish... so let's try this one, the Second of the Embarrassing Facts That Might Well Be True About Matt Pagel:2. When Matt was told that there was no word in the English language that rhymes with orange, he tried to invent one, and spent almost two weeks peppering his conversations with that word, which he insisted was an actual word. Thus, if you talked to Matt during those two...

I have never been sure of the classification of roses. For a while, I gues
2009-04-02 04:19:00
The final phase of Operation NeverMow-- the name I've now given to my 2-year project (a 2-year project entering it's fifth or sixth year) to convert our yard into a perennial garden that never needs to be mowed (get the name now?) is the rose bushes that I've put up near the front by the mailbox: miniature roses on a couple of bushes that should eventually look really nice, or so I thought when I picked them up for $2.99 on clearance.(Operation NeverMow is on a tight budget.)Then I find out that rose bushes are particularly susceptible to all kinds of pests, and suddenly that $2.99 isn't looking so well spent, because I don't want to be always having to go out and spray pesticides and also we live on a hill and at the bottom of the hill, 200 yards away, is a lake, and any pesticides I spray that don't go straight to the groundwater are going to end up in the lake killing fish and boaters and waterskiiers, and I might be okay with getting rid of a few of those guys on jet skis...
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The Sharks were 0-13: (Take Stock 1)
2009-04-01 17:35:00
Take Stock is a new feature where I will talk about the things I have in a given location. The Top Of My Dresser: This is the cleanest the top of my dresser ever is, typically. Shown here, moving roughly from left to right:The Calvin & Hobbes bound collection. On top of that is a cat statue that actually belongs to Sweetie, and an old Father's Day card from Middle. The softball signed by my old softball team, "The Sharks."My priceless collection of LPs, including the outermost one, a double album of Duran Duran's live "Arena." Hidden in there, though, are some very old, extremely valuable Beatles' LPs, and a record by "Trip Shakespeare," as well as an extended cut of "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell.Then there's the tiny drawer that holds my old glasses and videotapes from when we had a non-digital video camera, with a mirror above it. The mirror has pictures of Mr F and Mr Bunches taped to it, plus the ripped-off hand from the first "Elmo So Big" book they went through, plu...

And he won't steal your fossils.
2009-04-01 17:29:00
Ever stop to think about the different challenges that face the same type of work depending on where you live?Take plumbing. If you live in, say, Montana, your local plumber probably needs to know a lot about septic systems and how not to disturb the amazingly-valuable fossils that lie on your ranch.But if you live in Manhattan, your plumber has to understand how your shower drain interacts with the 15,350 other showers in your high rise on 5th Avenue. That makes it all the more difficult, and important, to find a qualified plumber -- like Anthony Mirabile, a local Whitestone plumber for Manhattanites. Anthony's site (I've linked to it there) demonstrates why he's the guy that should be called for plumbing problems in the Big Apple.First, he doesn't bilk you -- right there on the site he says that you can probably take care of some small problems yourself; and, he recommends calling around to get some different quotes and opinions. I like that honesty, right up front.Second,...
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I don't understand office politics. What does this mean? (First Thoughts)
2009-04-01 15:39:00
We have a dish washer in our office, used for a variety of non-office related dishes. The only dish I ever have sitting around the office is my coffee cup, the one Sweetie made me. I wash that myself usually/rarely. Yesterday, though, I had left it in the kitchen area... yes, we have a kitchen area, for some reason, including a stove... and forgotten about it while I met with clients. So this morning, I had to backtrack to remember where I'd left it, and eventually made my way to the kitchen area, where I noticed that someone had put all the dirty dishes into the dishwasher and run it.All, that is, except my cup, which was sitting on the back of the sink.If you like what you read here make sure you go buy "Thinking The Lions, And 117* Other Ways To Look At Life (*Give Or Take). It's a collection of some of the best essays I've written, things that are no longer available anywhere else-- including being the only place where you can read my stunning expose of scientific fraud, the ...
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Question Of The Day: 54
2009-03-31 22:35:00
Why is it that cutting the end off of a banana before eating it somehow makes that end seem inedible?Mr Bunches likes a banana for breakfast. When I eat a banana myself, I simply peel and eat -- including the pointy end, which I just bite off. But when Mr Bunches gets a banana, I have to slice it up, and I always, for some reason, in the past, sliced off the ends of it and then threw those away. Then, the other morning, I was about to do that, and I thought why? Why would I do that? So I ate the ends of the banana.But I've gotta say: It felt weird. I don't know if I'll do it again.
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Let's Talk About S-E-X... or let's at least go watch some videos. (But not
2009-03-31 22:27:00
How did you learn about sex when you were younger? My education came from the most time-honored and reliable of sources: guessing. But I didn't rely solely on that. I'm not crazy. I also got great information from (a) Cable TV, (b) other guys telling stories that were no doubt 100% accurate and (c) more guessing.That's why I'm the fountain of knowledge I am today. And also why I'm lucky that I don't have more kids than OctoMom and/or more diseases than the CDC. It's also why I try to make sure that my own kids know that they can come to me and ask me anything that's on their mind about sex, and that I will try to answer it. I will, to be sure, answer in the most awkward way possible, probably using metaphors, but I'll at least try to answer it.I also let the kids know about Sex.HealthGuru.com, just in case, you know, they're weirded out by talking to me about sex -- they can at least go to a reputable source of information, one that will not begin the answer by sig...
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It's all about the lemurs. (I get paid for doing this, 4)
2009-03-31 16:02:00
Yesterday, while waiting between court appearances on two different cases, I got to sit and read parts of the August 4, 2008 edition of New Yorker magazine. It was just laying around the courthouse, and so I swiped it.It was a rare treat; I ordinarily get to read the New Yorker only when sitting in the Emergency Room, where I spend an inordinate amount of time. Even the fact that it was from 9 months ago wasn't bad, because really there's nothing time-sensitive about articles detailing how a statistician and Red Sox fan thought he saw a lemur in Boston -- the first Boston lemur sighting on record (but the second Massachusetts lemur sighting.)Our Opinions Are Righter Than Yours! The Best Of Everything lives up to its name: Best Modest Mouse Song That's Scientifically Accurate, Best Book That Never Existed (But Should) Best Sing-Along-Singer, Best Sexy Sci-Fi Chick, If something is The Best, it's on The Best Of Everything!
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It would a Supertable among regular Tables.
2009-03-31 15:55:00
In our house, the presence of teenagers and two-year-olds means that Sweetie and I have always had to choose, when buying furniture, between two options:Option 1: Buy cheap furniture so that when The Boy spills ginger ale on it and then goes to bed without even making an attempt to clean it up, we won't be out a lot of money. (And we'll get used to our couch smelling like ginger ale) orOption 2: Buy expensive furniture and then wonder whether the marks made by the toy trucks rolling over them appear to blend in with the expensive wood grain on the coffee table.Neither of those is a great choice, but we may have another option: furniture from Lexington Furniture at Discount Quality Furniture. Lexington Furniture is sold online from Discount Quality Furniture, which means no high-pressure salespeople, no drafty warehouse stores, no time-consuming trips around town, and they've got great, great furniture.Shopping at the site is completely easy, too - -just click around, get vi...
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Ninety Four: Part Eleven: Wherein I Compound Interest, and Try Not To Appe
2009-03-30 20:21:00
Everyone has one year in their life that has a greater impact on them than any other year. Mine was 1994. Once a week, I'll recap that year. Click here for the table of contents. My morning routine, when I was in Washington, was the same on most weekdays once I went to work for the Pinkerton Risk Assessment Services people. I found that the routine, like my quitting smoking and my ongoing efforts to lose an additional ten pounds, helped keep things feeling as though they were under control.It's strange to think that the world seemed out of control, given how little actually happened. Many memoirs are written about important events or fascinating happenings or meeting people who are beyond interesting -- or, barring that, being beyond interesting oneself.Nothing important happened to me in 1994, not in the sense that most people think of it. In retrospect, fifteen years later, I think lots of important things happened to me, but they are the kind of important things that are hi...
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I am a man of hidden intellectual depths (Commutation 11)
2009-03-30 16:10:00
You should know this:Sometimes you will see me walking into work on a Monday morning.I will be wearing my brown suit with a yellow shirt.And the tie with the little sandcastles on it but you cannot tell they are sandcastles from far away, and I am walking rather quickly.I will be looking serious and purposeful, as though I am pondering the many serious and purposeful things I have to do that day.But I will be listening to this on my iPod:And I will be, in my mind, remembering when I used to give the Babies! a bath in the sink and sing that to them.And, also, in my mind, I am shaking it.
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Atoms are punctual?
2009-03-30 16:01:00
My watch doesn't do enough to save me, or my planet.It is a very nice watch, mind you-- it's fancy and has little gold and silver bits and, most importantly, it has the Buffalo Bills' logo and name on it, so that every time (get it) I check my watch I am reminded of my favorite football team (lest I forget...)But it doesn't run on eco power. It doesn't generate power on its own from any light source available.It also doesn't keep time atomically. I'm not sure how atomic timekeeping works, but I know that it does, and I know that I want my watch to keep time using the power of atoms. Or the chronicity of atoms. Or the something of atoms, whatever it is that might be, that helps them keep time. Punctuality, maybe.Whatever it is, I want it, and I want my watch to be set by the "Atomic Signal," which I didn't know existed but which does exist, so somewhere out there a timekeeping station is keeping time and telling watches, everywhere, what time it really is. Watches excep...

A juice box, and incense sticks (Sunday's Poem, 11)
2009-03-29 19:41:00
Zozo-ji by Dana Levin Buddhist temple, Tokyo One cry from a lone bird over a misted riveris the expression of grief, in Japanese. Let womendo what they need. And afterwards knit a red cap, pray?In long rows, stone children in bibs and hats, the smell of pine and cooled earth?It was a temple for the babied dead. I found it via the Internet.Where they offered pinwheels and bags of sweetsfor the aborted ones, or ones who'd lived but not enough?Moss-smell, I can project there.Azaleas pinking the water.When her lord asked her again how it died, she said As an echo off the cliffs of Kegon. ?ukiyo: in Japanese it sounds like "Sorrowful World"winds trying to hold each other in silken robeswhat in English sounds like "Floating World"a joke on the six realms in which we tarrywhat they called the "Sorrowful World": wheel made of winds trying to cling to each other ? A ...
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The thing about the Qs is true. Possibly.
2009-03-29 19:34:00
Albuquerque can be many things to many people -- it can be the headquarters for a secretive group of people trying to bring about the end of all 73 dimensions (as in my ongoing story, "Lesbian Zombies Are Taking Over The World!"), it can be a hard-to-spell stumbling block for kids in the local geography bee, and mosly, it can be... HOT.Which is why, if you live in Albuquerque -- the only city in the world with two "Qs" in the name -- you need a a decent air conditioning system, and not one of those window-units that will wheeze and sputter and not cool you down at all. You need top-notch AC, the kind you can only find by locating the best Albuquerque HVAC-Air-Conditioning guys around -- which you can do without even any more work: Simply click that link and you'll be led to DHL Mechanical Services, Inc., the best Albuquerqe HVAC guys around. They don't just sell you some junky stuff like a lot of outfits. Instead, they'll do an inspection of your home to make sure you get an a...
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Sweetie?s Hunk/ Dispute of The Week, 9:
2009-03-28 12:19:00
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I'll be singing "And no one heard at all, not even the chair."
2009-03-28 12:15:00
Maybe you're the kind of person who enjoys fixing up your cars, the kind of person who has a hot rod sitting around that he's (or she's) always tinkering with, working on during the weekends, getting it out on nice days to go cruising around. I'm not. I'm the kind of person who occasionally pauses to get the empty Red Pop cans out of his back seat and duct-tapes his glove compartment shut. If you ARE the kind of person who fixes up cars and likes working on muscle cars and all that, then you should be getting the things you need from Mustang Performance Parts. Low price, fitness, and satisfaction are all guaranteed, and you can shop online for the parts, leaving you more time to fix up your car and drive it around. Just don't rev the engine too loud next to me; it'll drown out my Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits CD.
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The Rum Punch Review ("The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,", Part 2).
2009-03-27 16:43:00
Read Part 1 of this Review Here.I finished The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox over a week ago, but am only now just getting around to posting the second half of the Rum Punch Review. I could say that I deliberately took the time to think about it, let it settle in, let the book digest a little, like I do now with dinner (Burritos) instead of just going straight to the dessert (2 cheeseburgers.)Or I could say that I was distracted by coming up with the 5 Traits Most Commonly Seen In Waukesha County, Wisconsin, which is what I did this morning while waiting for a court hearing to begin. I was standing by the Courthouse entrance, waiting for my client, and had plenty of time to observe people and determine the 5 Traits, and also to determine that one sheriff's deputy was having a really bad day and also that he lied to the maintenance guy.The deputy came in, hurriedly, and then knocked the top of a little pole that had an "Exit" sign on, and then swore (under his breath) and then shoo...