There is a fine, fine line between "cute dog" and "down's syndrome dog."


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Look what rgeorge made! Why did he make it? Because he is awesome, that's why.


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Also, three more days!


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My body is attempting to stage a coup. Ugh. If I had any PTO to spare I'd be staying home near the toilet with a hot water bottle; as it is I'm already half an hour late.

Last night I expressed my concerns about the format of offensive knitting. Basically, I feel that having the whole thing rest mostly in one person's hands isn't the most sustainable model for the long run, especially when that person is me and I know I'm heading back to school shortly and will have more time constraints ( Read more... )

With grim determination not to miss any more long runs, I went to the track today. My original intention was 10-12 miles, but I decided once I got there that I should only do 8. After all, I'm still getting back in the swing of things and even 8 miles is a bit of a big increment from last week's "long" run of 6 ( Read more... )

Have you voted for Wilma today?

Just think...if ten people reading this set phone alarms once per hour to
remind them to vote through their crackberries, by the time it's happy hour
Wilma would have 100 more votes! And you could reward yourself for a job
well done with two-for-ones! It's a foolproof plan, I tell you.


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I'm trying not to play up the fact that any prize money Wilma has won will go to help my friend and ex-coworker Kelli, who as you may remember was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. But I do want to give an update ( Read more... )

HOLY CRAP GUYS, WILMA MADE THE TOP TEN!


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On days like today when it is -20 in Minneapolis and there's windchills hitting the convergence point of -40F/-40C, and it's the dead of winter and spring is still months away, the thing that gets me through it is the following fact ( Read more... )