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As I mentioned earlier, I took a stab at hunting this season for the first time in 15 years. It was just the right combination of factors I suppose. First, being unemployed, I have lots of time on my hands. Second, I made a friend at my last job whose family owns private land that can be used for hunting. I've never been a big fan of hunting on ( Read more... )

Went hunting Monday. Went hunting today. Nothing yet. Going to try again tomorrow morning. If I still have nothing, I may make one last stab at it on Saturday morning ( Read more... )

Well, let's start on the positive. Took B. to the West Side Market yesterday. Got some goodies. Happy about that. Ended up not doing much with the day, which while it was nice to relax, there's a lot of work to be done. We are having Thanksgiving here (however that happened), so we have a lot of work to do to bring the house up to snuff for ( Read more... )

Well, today is not my best day ( Read more... )

Four years ago on LJ, I made a prediction. I predicted that if the country re-elected Bush, his complete incompetence would run this country into the ground, and he would hand the election to the Democrats in 2008. It happened. Had we elected Kerry, we would have had four years of a mediocre president, and this election would have been closer, ( Read more... )

Well, first on the thesis... it's coming. I'm putting a lot of effort into it right now. A lot. Because if I can get a draft to my adviser in a week or so, I can still defend this semester. And graduate. So, it's coming along pretty well ( Read more... )

Well, the job hunt this time around seems to be more hunting than ever before. But before I get into that, let me update on the talks with the existing prospect ( Read more... )

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.... you must go read this:

http://www.timarai.com/blog/2008/10/21/greatest-how-to-everat-least-in-japan/