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Hey! Have a good Fourth of July weekend! Oh, and by the way, we're cutting back a driver, and you're it. So ... you're laid off, kind of. I mean, you're not going to be working here anymore, but you don't get unemployment, because really you work for the agency, not us. So good luck, and if we happen to have a ridiculously huge turn-around in ( Read more... ) -
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Blah blah. Not much has been going on, generally speaking. So I haven't been writing. We went last weekend to my step-sister's wedding, at the Zoo here. It was a gorgeous ceremony, and if I think of it later, I'll probably post some pictures. This week, The Emersons were written up in the Insider, the local pseudo-news weekly. And we've got a ( Read more... ) -
Another in my rapidly-expanding list of geek holidays
May 25th is Towel Day.
To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I don't need to link that because you've read this already, right?):
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Meme and you and a dog named Boo
I usually shy away from memes, but I found this uncommonly interesting. And minimally demanding of me.
Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
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Gaahhh. The Sabres should put the Senators away tonight, but the refs seem bound and determined to take it away. After both the first and second periods, the commentators have gone on and on about how incredibly inconsistent and generally poor the officiating's been. If this game was in Buffalo, the refs might need an escort out of the arena.
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