Wow, what an interesting couple of days. I'm glad I've got friends and family to stay with while San Diego burns. (our rental condo is smack dab in the middle of a mandatory evac area) Although, the giant tailgate party at Qualcomm Stadium does sound kind of fun ( Read more... )

Our chorus director's quartet has made the finals for the Oreo jingle contest!!!

Click on "A Capella Gold"!

[The grand prize is $10,000 for them - if you feel inclined, vote! vote! vote!]

Four days and counting!!!


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Wow:

( The Coolest Forklift Training Video EVER )

Das ist Klaus... Poor, sweet-looking Klaus is about to start his first day on the job. Evidently, it's Klaus' job to do everything wrong that is humanly possible. All I can say is, Wow. We need more training videos like this ( Read more... )

For your edification, here's the 'proper' way to drink Vodka, Russian-style. (Pulled from a hiking listserver ( Read more... )

Saw on a box at the church today, where they were decorating for the imminent holiday...
Written under "Contents" on other boxes were "3 Shepherds", "Stars", etc, but I really wanted a picture of this one:

Contents -
1 wise man, 1 ass

And ev’rybody tells me that it’s cool to be a cat
Cool for cats! Wow, haven't been through old cd's in a while... ripping a bunch to my computer to keep me distracted. I hadn't realized how many I'd collected over the last, what, 17 years? Yow ( Read more... )

OK, now to see if I've figured out the picture posting thingy. A couple of cool pix from my new Kara-resistant Sony Cyber-shot U:

Neato Austin gazebo:


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Well, hello there, and welcome to Nikali's First Post ( Read more... )