I need the distraction, swiping and slightly editing that RP meme from smiko and others ( Read more... )

See you folks in a week. Do everything I wouldn't do.

I don't even know.

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Picking up what you are pretty sure is the last of the needles you dropped.

So I guess I'll be going! Staying way the hell out at the airport, though, hotels were charging $300 a night versus the $100 I ended up paying. So unless the cabs charge more than $12 a mile, should be fine.

First-time convention-goer, so feel free to post unsolicited advice.

The tubes leading to my house have apparently become clogged with all of the e-mails; I'm having difficulty sustaining a connection for prolonged periods. Trying to sort it out with the ISP is kind of like punching myself in the balls repeatedly.

So if I'm not around for the next little while, that is why.

Many animal lovers find it hard to part with their pets when they die. So when cat Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, was run over by a car, his artist owner decided to turn him into a permanent piece of artwork as the ultimate tribute by transforming him into a flying helicopter.


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( A (representative but slightly edited) morning in the life )

Woman's 8-litre-a-day Coca-cola habit cited as potential contribution to death

Candidate for the provincial assembly lists being white as an advantage, and a reason to vote for him.


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