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poke...

I've been neglecting LJ for a while - only popping in every once and a while to try to catch up on friends posts and not much else. We are all well - just busy ( Read more... )

Anyone on my flist that is also local have a demolition hammer we could borrow for a day?

NYE was great this year... ilcylic and spsh came over and made pizza. The guys played video games and spsh and I knitted...
ilcylic finally saved the snow princess and we were able to move on to adult games. Dora's cool and all, but damn. I've been listening to it for a week now and I'm done. It's just a shame that Dylan was already asleep and not able to see ( Read more... )

I have $40 burning a hole in my iTunes account.
I also have a great need for new music.

what do you recommend?

ETA: I just realized that The Cure released 4:13 Dream yesterday, so that helps, but I would love to find something truely new too.

In the last week Roscoe has eaten my application for an absentee ballet, a book, sand paper, and today a back issue of Interweave Knits ( Read more... )

I know I'm setting myself up for a potential shit storm here, but can someone please explain to me how the Community Reinvestment Act 'forced' banks to offer sub-prime loans, and then how it forced mortgage brokers to push them on folks that really couldn't afford them?

86mb text files take forever to open - even on a system with 4 quad core processors and 32gb of RAM.

I am strongly considering taking the bus to and from work for a bit just to save on some gas money. I can get a monthly bus pass for $20 through work and now I just need to convince my husband that I won't get accosted walking from the bus stop to work ( Read more... )