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So, I'm thinking that I'm on the tail-end of this really nasty cold that has been squatting in my body.  The snot-factory is behind on production, and my sinuses are no longer feeling like some little booger-gnome is up there taping an episode of DiY, jack-hammers included.
This morning, I woke up (and that's a whole [...]

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So, my daughter Anna got herself a new email address, and I “yelled” at her to send me an email so I'd have it.
I get home tonight, and there's an email waiting for me from her.
Her email address?  Almost made me cry.
Annamal42@<hosting place>.com
Annamal itself is just too cute.. but the 42? She says, “Because it's [...]

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And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my liakela.
Which movie was this quote from?
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““A fireball destroyed France today, and Gerald Ford is dead.”” on Google Video

Gerald Ford has -really- passed today, at 93.
But he was not mauled by a lion.

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Spreading the Holiday Rear
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Virgin Mary. The three kings. A few wayward sheep. These are the figures one expects to find in a traditional Christmas nativity scene. Not a smartly dressed peasant squatting behind a rock with his rear-end exposed.
Yet statuettes of “El Caganer,” or the great defecator in the Catalan [...]

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Growing up in San Francisco, I remember our cable box fairly clearly. It had a UHF-like dial that you had to turn, and it clacked on every channel. I don't recall many of the channels we got, but I know one of them was a movie channel. HBO or Showtime.. one of those, I'm sure. [...]

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Gaming was awesome. Met a few really nice people, though was told that the group was very small that night due to it being so close to the holidays. No matter.. had a good time!
Played:
Smarty PartyHollywood Blockbuster, andNottingham
Three cool games, though I really enjoyed the last two a lot. Hopefully will be able to join [...]

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Hoping to catch some overtime tonight.
If it all works out, will be attending gaming night with East Tennessee Gamers, will report more back about that tomorrow, probably.  Thanks to
kalkail
for reminding me about the existance of boardgamegeek.com, which is how I found them in the first place. Woot!

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So, the kids have pretty much raided my DVD collection, taking it over to their house for watching over and over again, as kids are wont to do. A. really likes my girly flicks, like Under the Tuscan Sun, and Practical Magic, while J. was definitely more interested in the Monty Python series of [...]

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In reading 's recent posting about the 'discussion' (hee hee) he and his wife had about clutter, cleaning, and presenting a positive image from which their son can learn about roles in a relationship, it made me think about the image my ex husband is presenting to our kids, with everything that's currently going on [...]

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