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What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)
Midland
("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

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My last day at Boston Scientific is Friday, and I start my new job next Monday, woohoo!

Stephanie flies up Saturday morning to help me drive down to Alabama Saturday and Sunday. Exciting times!

I will be in the Seattle area this evening through Friday morning. My flight lands around 7pm so if anyone wants to do anything around 8 or 9 tonight, and/or Wednesday and Thursday evening, talk amongst yourselves and tell me where to go ( Read more... )

License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she

I went white water rafting last weekend with Stephanie and her parents. It was excellent. We got some good pictures with a water proof camera, and the place running the trip took great pictures as well. I will link to these when I get home ( Read more... )

My friend at work, Alan, has issued a weight loss challenge to me. His goal is to get to 155 from 163, at a height of 5'9". Since this is a drop of 1.1 on the BMI scale, I figured a fair challenge would be for me to go from 169.5 to 161 at a height of 5'11". Whoever hits the target goal and maintains it for 3 days first will win dinner. If ( Read more... )

At this point, the Hampton is the only decent hotel left with rooms on Friday night for homecoming. I've booked 1 room since they can be cancelled, if you want to come you should book a room, or let me know if you want to try and share some rooms. I think we should come in Friday, stay Friday night, then go to Indy Saturday evening since there ( Read more... )

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I am thinking about buying a new car. The reasoning is I don't want to have to deal with maintenance on my blazer, and new cars are fun. My top pick right now is a VW Passat 2.0T. Thoughts?