The hard drive in my Dell Laptop just died. It’s partially my fault - I was trying to figure out why my bluetooth worked only when my left hand was resting below the keyboard. I pushed in that spot and got “zing - click, click, click”. Power off, back on “click, click, click”.

Well - I guess I didn’t have anything on there I can’t live without, but it’s going to slow me and everything that I was working on down for a while.

I guess this is my chance to try out Suse Live while I wait for a replacement.

Over the holiday we often try to sponser a family. Yesterday Steph got the wish list of a family in the area.

Kids - all three of them wanted a Playstation 2, appliances - they wanted a juicer.

To us, these seemed more like items of entertainment for those with disposable income - not items of necessity. So - tried again… yup - this new family indeed wants really items like clothes.

New family:
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Husband: all 5X size items
Wife: all 3X items
Daughter (13y): Large Women’s items

Anybody know where you find 3&5X adult clothes?

And thanks to the guys who came over and helped me get 3/4’s of my basement framed. And didn’t even kill my keg off!

On us.

So much for the myth that the WTO is just a puppet organization for U.S. interests. Apparently, our exports are being sanctioned due to our “protectionist trade policy.”

Guess where this links

Think you know? Read this.

“My geography students from last year are horrible. They would have driven me to liquor if I could afford it.

Supposedly the capital of Canada is Washington D.c. (I’m teaching in Canada).

Canada is bordered by the Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic oceans.

Q:Name and provide two examples of Canada’s largest industry.
A:The service industry ex: prostitution and drug sales. (Technically true, but being a catholic school, I could only give 1/3 on the question.)

The largest type of urban settlement is the hamlet because “he was some type of king dude or something in shakspeer’s (sic) stories.” (I really hope the kid was trying to give a “funny” answer)

I could go on, but I’m almost crying from remembering these.”

“Shoot out your super high speed third attention to a star, erase stickiness and other wonders are yours if you simply practice the tenants in this book by Hiroyuki Nishigaki, who also wrote the stirring sequel to this book, “Rejuvenation and Unveiled Hidden Phenix: Carlos Castaneda Shamanism Plus Alpha After His Death,” which is even less coherent, if you can believe it.

Having been a student of bad grammar and compositional ineptitude since I first found the works of Pedro Carolino, I was compelled to read this book, and I was not disappointed. In this book you will find an appalling lack of respect for the English language, a zero coherence quotient and delicately turned phrases that would be impossible for a lesser astral being than Mr. Nishigaki. If you delight in all such inept manifestations you will love this book.

That isn’t the only reason to be fond of the book, though. The entire premise of the book is absolutely ridiculous. Basically his premise boils down to this: the key to health, happiness, and a long life is to have six bowel movements a day, to dent your navel 100 times a day, and to constrict your anus 100 times a day, or in the words of Mr. Nishigaki: ” Denting navel and constricting anus 100 times everyday is the most effective to make the fire burn from within.” (It works for me!)

If you enjoy the truly outlandish, this is an excellent place to start.”
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Guess which book Target’s selling now?

A couple minor touches, legs, braces, etc - and here we go.

Need two minor braces between front and back legs, but not waking the wife up with saw noises again.

Went to a gun show in Bealton, VA on Saturday and picked up one of these:

I also ordered a cheap scope and rings kit for it.

(I need to make an icon for “zinger-hurting-himself-while-trying-to-do-something-he-knows-nothing-about” - which one’s better?

Actually, my back’s kinda sore and I have a couple nicks and cuts, but I’m otherwise ok.

So - what I did is took 18 2×4’s, cut them down to 72″, drilled five 5/8’s holes in each at 1-foot intervals in length by 1 1/2 in width. My cordless drill battery would wear out after about 4 boards, so it took me about five charges and most of Sunday night to get the holes drilled. After I finished, I ran a 3/4″ threaded metal rod down each hole, and tightened up the whole thing with a washer and nut on the end of each rod.