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those are the blogs that many people want to read. I know for a fact that if the blog scrolls, even a little, it gets glossed over or skipped. Not in my case, mind you, but in many cases...

you know who you are. ;-P

not that it's the intention of the writer to have every syllable read... oh, no, wait... that is the intention... nevermind.

of course, if you are in a hurry or if you just aren't motivated or too busy, reading an entire three or four paragraphs is too taxing... after all, most news article are only read to the point where they make you play choose your own adventure with the new paper. at that point, you are just looking for a quick blurb to get your through the next 4 hours or until you decide you need another break.

btw - dd puts too much sugar in their chai. but I'm addicted to sugar, so I guess it's not a bad thing...

if you are going to read blogs. read them. when youskim over books, you do not get the full experience, for many authors are very clever and put subtle nuances that get missed when you only read the first and last line of the a paragraph and everything in bold, quotes, or italics. the little jokes or the revealing character flaws or plot points.

those are the things that makes book ready worthy and re-read over and over and over.

but then again, I am a victim of the desire to read character development... having a connection with the character in the book because connecting with people is not something that comes easy to me... especially lately.

and in a totally unrelated quote.

"when you build a place for things, things come..." ~ Clamp, Gremlins 2

did you know that your fillings can get old?

didn't know that. I have to get mine replaced from, oh so many, years ago... I remember when I first got my fillings in... probably too much candy and not enough brushing.

I'm goig to be getting them replaced with the ceramic ones I think, so you can't really even tell that they are there...

crazy hunh?

maybe one day, I'll get all my teeth fixed, and I'll be a real boy!

I hadn't heard anything in a few weeks, but they just told me that I am really going to houston...

although it's two weeks out, I still don't have the logistics... flights, apartments or hotel, etc...

since there will be a number of people starting with me, they wanted to do some mass e-mail with all the info. efficiency. phooey.

plus. warm weather for the winter - good while I have to work through (I'm guessing) 12 hour days - hopefully I won't have to work on fridays, because these three day weeks that I've had for the last year.

that was sweet.

but all good things come to an end (how completely morbid is that? so everything that is good must die? I don't believe that, so I guess that just nullifies my previous statement, but who cares. I can do what I want here)

so anyway. I'm wondering if I'll be prone to getting sick, due to the changes in climate from texas to michigan? I wonder if a lot of people have a weekly commute to houston. you'd think there wouldn't be, but I would have thought the same thing about connecticut.

who'da thunk it?

after reading eric's blog, I've decided to get a vanilla chai and a boston kreme from dunkin donuts.

man, I'm gonna get so fat.

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everything I have to do today is either running or is out until someone gets back to me. so it's not like I'm slacking off. if I'm gone when they get back to me, they can deal for the 10 minutes I'm not at my desk.

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how sad is it that it's only tuesday and I'm looking forward to thursday, if only because I get to leave...

it's actually sadder that I thought about leaving on thursday on monday.

actually... what's saddest is that I'm complaining about a 3 1/2 day work week. granted I do have to leave sunday night, but seriously? if it were shorter I would be complaining that I have to work at all...

hmmm... so what would I do if I didn't have to work? I might have read it online or it might have come from kill bill, but I guess retirement is the biggest killer of the elderly... when you have a job to go to you tend to stick around for it... how poignant.

so if I stopped working, does that mean I'm dead?

I'd probably do absolutely nothing for a few weeks.

literally, nothing. I would flood myself with TV and video games until I get totally sick of them (trust me, it's happened before) then I would make sure that there are absolutely no good books (because it doesn't matter if they are good or not) around for me to read that I haven't read or that I really liked that I would read again... because I would probably read every book in sight.

then I would probably start doing stuff around the house. like that cleaning thing. I should probably clean the house because it's usually a pit. (actually, it's not so bad, considering that lorie and I cleaned up a couple weeks ago... but I just like to whine about having to clean) and I should probably fix all the broken things around the house. like my playstation... well, maybe not that. but things. I've been meaning to put one of the hammocks up in the florida room, but I can't decide where to put it, plus the florida room is the unoffical official poker room.

but that's just a dream.

no one is going to pay me to not do anything. but if you guys here of someone that's hiring someone to not do anything, remember...

I got dibs.

[ha ha! i called it :-P]

do I have to tell you...

people will take advanatage of you. usually they will be the people with far fewer scruples, probably be opportunistic, desperate, and/or just enjoy laughing at others misfortune... [tanin no fukou wa mitsu no aji]

that is why, girls (or anyone for that matter) should never drink a drink they didn't see poured (although it's a little harder when you are in a restaurant, but that's a crap shoot anyway :-P) because you never know who might have dropped a ghb or whatever into your drink. also guy shouldn't follow attractive girls into motel rooms or take drugs with girls they don't know, because they might end up in a bathtub full of ice with a tube sticking out their back minus two kidneys.

and you shouldn't stick your hand or arm out the window or it will get cut off.

and don't go in the attic because there is a mumo.

I have such a positive out look on life... :-P

given that, I've decided to stop watching the news, because it's just too depressing, especially when all they report is criminal acts, gossip, and sensational stories that have no real bearing on life in my world. weather, traffic, maybe a little bit of politics and government - maybe, warnings about x or y because it is relevant and more positive stories, but nothing too cheesy, advancement in medical science, physics, astronomy, whatever... holy crap. I'm a geek.

but whatever... I was dd last night [rare occurence]. I think I might offer to be dd more often, because I never knew how much fun it was to watch the drunk fool...

probably because I'm usually that drunk fool... (sometimes, I don't even have to be drinking to be that... but then that would just make me a fool)... but now that I'm getting older, I find myself being too weary to be that anymore.

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I'm thinking about picking up rosetta stones for tagalog, vietnamese, and japanese...

to refresh my kana I found http://www.kanjisite.com/ - this is purely my reference...

if I like those and learn them well, I will probably go to the romantic languages and then to chinese and arabic... but that just seems really ambitious.

so is it just me, or do people think that people who aren't from the area in which they are driving can't drive.

so, being from michigan, I think that no one outside of michigan can drive. nyc? forget about it, you guys drive like 5 miles an hour in rush hour... la? same thing, except instead of being on city streets, you are on freeways... down south... yeah, talk to me when you get a few inches of snow in stop and go traffic... chicago... well... I guess I can't really dismiss them... but whatever - you can't drive as fast on your freeways... I've actually never driven a car myself in the outside the us (canada doesn't count) so I can't speak for other countries, but I have to give props to the filipino drives, because I probably can't hang. crazy ass drivers though...

then again, people - in general - don't like the way I drive... I guess you might be able to blame my mom for that - but whatever - I actually don't have to drive nearly as much as I used to, and not nearly as far...

btw - did you know that it is legal to drink in a moving vehicle in ct if you are a passenger? crazy.

I heard that there are some places that have drive thru margaritas or daquiris or something... drive thru... what kind of place breeds alcoholics that they need a drive through? it's different than those alcohol garages that you can pull in and get a keg or whatever and drive through it... that's party planning (or raging alcoholism, but isn't it really just the same thing?) single drinks that you order on the go is just silly... and possibly quite dangerous.

drinking and driving is bad.

so is driving and sleeping.

so is driving and talking on your phone - but I'm guilty of that too...

so is [insert whatever inappropriate comment you had in your drty mind here] - pervert. can't believe you thought of that.

and what is it with me being on some frakked out n sycn kick... blame my ipod which puts 'n sync at the beginning of the song list and me being to lazy to drop the player into shuffle...

san dimas high school football rocks!

...thinking of you... made a mistake when I let you go baby, I drive myself crazy... wanting you the way that I do...