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Spent a week in the wilds of the Southern Indiana and Tennessee and drove across Kentucky, twice. I think we made one brief stop in Kentucky, each time we crossed it… spent most of our time tooling across Tennessee in whatever direction suited us on that particular day. It turned out to be a really fun trip, so I’m going to attempt to sum up the ( Read more... )

The ticket-seller at the Metra station just came out of his booth to hand me the sunglasses that I dropped in the parking lot, on Friday morning. His cryptic smile combined with the weird nod the coffee-guy gave me lead me to believe that they probably watched me on Friday, as I casually started walking across the parking lot, then saw the early ( Read more... )

Frank, Sarah’s little brother, is now 21. We went to Famous Dave’s, a chain BBQ place, last night, and he did not get carded. Sarah didn’t get carded either, but she wasn’t that surprised. It made me think back to when I was 16 and my sister was 26 and the two of us were wandering around Key West, Florida, during the week that my brother got ( Read more... )

Day off from camp today. As I sit here recovering from our VERY long day of cruising the Taste of Chicago and eating lots of exotic and tasty foods. I got tempted to do some more upgrades. I usually ignore all my computer/tech stuff in the summer, but this long weekend has me motivated, I guess.

Droid is now running a 2.2 build. It’s fast and I put ( Read more... )

bad news: I didn’t qualify for the clinical research study that would’ve paid me to take the drugs that I’m already taking
good news: I didn’t qualify because I’m too healthy; A1C of 6.1, down ~50 lbs from a year ago, might even be able to reduce the meds that I’m taking, if I get more exercise and turn some fat into muscle.

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After digging food out of my wisdom tooth with a toothpick after every meal for the past few months… the cavity became too bad and I was experiencing ridiculously unbearable pain every few days. I lined up an appointment at a Dentistry school, since the rumor was that they did good work and did it cheap. They checked me in, took an x-ray, told me ( Read more... )

The long breaks between seasons make me nervous; When the new season begins, my confidence in my ability to do my job is completely deflated. Right now, we’re a few weeks into the season, and I not only KNOW that I am damn good at my job, but I’ve been doing it long enough that I should be teaching other people how to do it or running my own ( Read more... )

So, my big excitement, so far, this year, was the day my facebook got hacked. I don't know how, and since they didn't change my password and lock me out, there's no place to report it to facebook staff, and apparently no action that they're going to take to try and figure out who this person was who started chatting up all my friends about being ( Read more... )