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Favorite
Song of the Month:
Crawlin
- Linkin Park (Mike Shinoda
Remix)
Quotes
of the Month:
"If
a free society cannot help
the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who
are rich." -John
F. Kennedy
EGADS!
... So, I was going to print
a photo, but the printer
reported to be out of cyan...
so I got me a new cyan out,
began to take off the protective
packaging and squirt! Someone
loaded the inker a little
too full! It got me too,
and now I look like an Iraqi
voter!
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March 29, 2006 -
I
renewed my domain today for
two more years.
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March 28, 2006 -
Today
I did 5K on the treadmill, and
it took me 53 minutes 18 seconds...
Why did it take me longer this
time? Well before I was jogging
with no incline, and this time
I pondered since it's in Lawrence
(the 5K Hilltop Hustle lots
of people from work are going
to walk/jog in) I should try
it with more incline... After
a tenth a mile I was like; "Whoa,
a little incline makes a lot
of difference."
Meeting
notes were released in the UK
involving the lead up to the
Iraq war... in the notes it
was revealed that President
Bush was set on going to war
before the case was presented
to the international community,
and that he wanted to go to
war no matter what the rest
of the world thought. Bush also
had come up with plans to antagonize
a conflict- One plan involved
painting a US spy plane in UN
colors, and then to fly it over
Iraq to try and get them to
shoot at it, and then once they
did it would have been released
that Saddam was trying to shoot
down UN aircraft.
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March 26, 2006 -
The
Learning Channel has an interesting
new series: "Honey, We're
Killing the Kids". In it
they will take a family with poor
eating habits, and then via the
use of computer technology they
will show what the children will
look like later in life.
In
Japan and the UK they test each
cow for mad cow disease before
it can enter the food supply.
Next to their 100% testing, the
US checks a little less- we test
only one tenth of one percent!
I find that rather disconcerting,
considering that mad cow can be
contracted and not exhibit symptoms
for over a decade. Recently there
was a single cow that tested positive
here in the US.... So was it the
only one that had the disease?
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March 25, 2006 -
Today
I ran on the treadmill a bit, and
worked on Carrie's laptop. It has
been416 days since I last had to
fix it.
The
use of scarecrows in farming is
being revived... The scarecrow is
not in the form of a person filled
with hay on a stick however; it's
a life-size fiberglass killer whale.
Aquaculture pens in the ocean for
breeding fish can be decimated by
seals which can break their way
in and then eat their fill, and
they've found that it can be much
easier to harvest the captive fish
than to hunt for them. Enter the
seals' least favorite creature the
killer whale- Farmers have started
to make killer whale scarecrows
to scare off the seals, and apparently
it was a very effective idea as
no seals have challenged them.
There
are protests going on in the American
Southwest over immigrant rights.
There is a bill before Congress
to build a more substantial barrier
between the US and Mexico, to make
it a felony to illegally enter the
country, and to charge a tax to
wire money to Mexico. The goal of
the protest is to express outrage
over the bill and for the legalization
of the 12 million illegal immigrants
that live in the country. I don't
think making it a felony is perhaps
the right thing, it's not like we're
putting people who try to cross
the border in prison, they get deported
either way. I think we do need to
secure the entire border however,
crack down and deport illegal immigrants
who are here, but also work on a
fair guest worker program for those
who are in Mexico, who want to come
here and work legally. I do not
feel that we should reward people
who have broken the law to get here
to work here. Mexico is pushing
for a "more friendly"
relationship with the US, though
a bit hypocritical- they are against
the building of a barrier and want
a completely open border with us,
yet they have walled off their southern
border to keep out poorer Central
Americans. Next to oil revenue,
Mexico's second principal source
of income is the money sent home
by workers to their families.
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March 24, 2006 -
I
walked dogs in the morning, ran just
a wee bit on the treadmill... Smally
has become a huge pain, she's regained
her pep, and now wants to be held
all the time. When I was on the treadmill
she came running in and started barking
at me to hold her. After that I went
out and worked on the fish pond some,
there was still a little snow on the
ground in the backyard, but I'm ready
for Spring. I got cold after a bit
and came back in and a guy who lives
down by our
shop called; "Yeah, there was
someone down at your shop taking a
bumper off one of your cars a couple
minutes ago." Egads! I called
Mom as she was at the shelter a half
block away.
During
my time off I've played Homeworld
2 a few times, it's a 3D space combat
game. Here my battlecruiser takes
fire from an enemy missile frigate.
You can build all sorts of ships in
the game from tiny fighters to massive
shipyards.
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March 23, 2006 -
Lets
see... I'm half-way through my week
off, and it's mostly been cold and meh
outside. Yesterday morning I went to
the shelter and walked the dogs, and
then stayed to help clean and such,
I ponder tomorrow I'll do the same.
Perhaps tonight I'll make a to-do list.
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March 21, 2006 -
We
didn't get nearly as much snow as they
said we would, but it was still a good
snow, and we really needed the moisture.
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March 20, 2006 -
It's
snowing... doesn't it know that it's the
first day of Spring? It snowed in the morning,
drizzled some in the afternoon and now the
big flakes are coming down, and we could
get out largest snowfall of the year.
A
man in Afghanistan was arrested for carrying
a bible. Christianity isn't outlawed there,
just converting to it is- and since he was
born a Muslim, he is going to be put to
death if he refuses to denounce Christianity
by tomorrow. It makes one wonder how much
really changed after freedom marched there.
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March 19, 2006 -
I
cleaned out my fish aquarium today, walked
the dogs at the shelter, cleaned the upstairs,
and saw Teresa & Sara on the PBS pledge
drive. I captured the broadcast... here Teresa
seems to make some sort of mistake while talking
on the phone, because she makes an "uh
oh" face and then quickly hangs up. After
that Sara leans in to give her some advice.
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March 16, 2006 -
Today
Congress raised the ceiling on the national
debt to $9,000,000,000,000.00, or $30,000 for
every man, woman and child in the country, but
I think mostly the kids are going to get stuck
with paying off the bill. The vote was split
along party lines with all Democrats and three
Republicans voting against, and rest of the
majority voting for the bill.
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March 14, 2006 -
Today
I jogged 5K on the treadmill, though it took me
48.25 minutes.
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March 11, 2006 -
I
agree with President Bush on something, I think Dubai
should have been able to operate the port facilities
they purchased from a London based company. Though
ownership changed, everyone that worked there was
going to be retained... pretty much nothing was to
change. Republicans in Congress led the fight against
the deal, which the Democrats seemed quite merry to
follow along with, and finally they tied the bill
against the ports deal in with spending for the Iraq
war, (which I don't think any party should be allowed
to do) and then Dubai pulled out of the deal agreeing
to sell to an American company. I guess we will see
if Congress takes up the issue again to actually work
to bring more security to the ports. I think mostly
the Republicans wanted to show that they were not
all so connected to the President, as many will have
to run again for office.
The
Sci-Fi programming last night was great, but now it's
over, Stargate won't come back until July, and Battlestar
Galactica won't air again until October.
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March 6, 2006 -
Today
I went to the dentist and got my teeth cleaned.... mmmm
crunchy teeth. After that I came home and finished watching
Voyager season 4.
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March 5, 2006 -
Sunday,
today I ponder I'll start to tackle spring cleaning, my
two projects I've already started it to go through my
collection of old computer boxes and part, and all the
stuff that is under my bed, and get rid of as much of
it as I can.
I
ran on the treadmill for half an hour today and went 2.7
miles.
Thursday
after work I went to see Munich with Bob. It was pretty
bloody, but was a very good movie I thought.
I
forgot to put up a photo of the Japanese dinner night,
so I pondered it'd be good to start March off with it.
From left to right is Angie, me, Dennis, Brent, &
Teresa.

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