What a difference a vowel makes (Tempe to Tampa 2003).
So here I am in Florida, supposedly working but I wanted to post from this frigid state. Flew into Tampa Bay yesterday, then drove forever and a day out into the boonies, past a little town called New Port Richie, out to Crystal River. Sweet mother of god is this the boondocks or what. The hotel is nice, but there isn't any internet connections in the room, and I have a serious doubt that there is anywhere here that I can snag a wireless connection either.
It's cold and humid, but everything is so cheap. Cigarettes are two bucks a pack. Gas prices seem about the same, maybe a little bit more then AZ.
That's all for now. I should get back to work.

It looks like dooce is in trouble. If you have a few extra bucks, perhaps you could send some her way. She is one of the best 'bloggers ( I hate that word ) around and it would totally suck for her to not be around (again).

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Infinate wisdom from my cute friend Autumn...

A:Why are you grumpy?
S:I'm allways grumpy...
A:You need to get laid.

Went hiking today, and I took some pictures. Check them out here.
(And for you northerners, that shiny thing at the top of the third picture would be the sun. In some parts of the world, it comes out every day. Honest.

Kiki is one of the all-time greatest cats. She's just all, I'll just lay here, ok?

I just totally paniced when I saw this headline on the Red Wings ESPN page.
Fedorov seeks new representation
Until I read farther and saw,
and hopes to re-sign with the Red Wings before the playoffs.

I just totally forgot what I was going to say...

Presenting...
The workstation of doom...
Left hand side
Spark 20: <unnamed> Not hooked up yet, need more ethernet ports
IBM Thinkpad 600X: <Remus> Windows 2k and Debian dual-boot
Spark 20: <Sparky> DNS, soon to be mail
Sun 411 enclosure w/ cdrom drive
DreamCast

Center
Sun GDM20E20 monitor
Cisco 678 DSL Router
Zip 100 Drive
Sony tape drive w/ 4 tape autoloader
Super-pimp phone

Workstation
Pentium IV 1.7GHz, DVD, CD-RW, etc.. <Redeye> aka <gnome>
Attack dust-bunnies

So I was playing with Heather, which consists of throwing her mouse into the bedroom for her to fetch, and I give the mouse a heafty toss into the bedroom, bouncing off the door. She runs off after it, then comes back. She has a swagger that says 50% 'I couldn't find the mouse' and 50% 'I've grown tired of the mouse'. Then she paces across the desk, which is 50% 'I'm looking for a good place to lay down', and 50% 'Is the mouse still up here'.
She is such a freak...

I have become a Microsoft Money junkie. I love that program, and if I can keep to my budget I will be able to save $6000 this year, not includeing any raises or my income tax refund. I am so totally going to have a nice long week vacation somewhere this year.

I am very sick and need help...

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Does it make me stupid or a bad person to prefer Richard Russo to Jose Saramago? I picked up 'All the Names' by Saramago because it sounded like a good story, plus he won a Nobel prize for literature. I made it about 40 pages into it and couldn't go on. I imagine, in it's native Portuguese, it is wonderful and breathtaking. But the translation I have manages to do things like jam 5 commas into one sentence. So tonight I grabbed 'The Risk Pool' by Russo. I was pretty sure I would like it as I loved 'Nobody's Fool' and 'Empire Falls'. Plus, he did win a Pulitzer. I am 40 pages into it and it is a good one.

So I am thinking of taking a vacation this year. I want to go somewhere away for a week. I was thinking London or Paris, the former could be done for about $1300 for the ticket and hotel for 6 nights. Any recommendations? Anyone been to London or Paris, or anywhere in Europe for that matter? What about other interesting destinations?

Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb Dies at Age 53
That's sad. I liked the Bee Gee's, I don't think you can be normal and not like at least one of their songs.
In other news, ROCK!!!

For some reason, I have Justine Bateman on my mind today. How wierd is that?

Puppy survives toss from moving car
What kind of sicko tosses a puppy out of a moving car? It's just sad.

Eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits.
link via #!/usr/bin/girl

So, the Big Game is done.
A team has lost and a team has won.
So can you all please go home now?

Having just finished 'A Storm of Swords', the lastest in the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin, I would like to summerise the story so far...

Everyone dies...

It's a good series, and wonderful fantasy, but does he have to kill all my favorite characters?

"[police] snipers were poised on top of Mill Avenue's Bank of America building."
Happy new year...

Gonna dive into a dive
I've dove into before
Gonna haunt a haunt I've haunted
Like a million times or more
A familiar joint
Where getting drunk's the only point
To frequent this place
With any frequency at all
Countin' on a remedy
I've counted on before
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me
What you call the disease,
I call the remedy
What you're callin' the cause,
I call the cure
Gonna sing a song, a song to you
A song I've sung before
Belt out a ballad that I've belted out
A million times or more
The words I'm gonna scream
And getting drunk's the central theme
to the lyrics, if you can
make the lyrics out at all
Countin' on a remedy
I've counted on before
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me
What you call the disease,
I call the remedy
What you're callin' the cause,
I call the cure
Just a devotion to a potion
Please no applause
A dedication to a medication
A crutch a cure a cause
What I've counted on to pick me up
Has knocked me to my knees
Before I hit the floor once more
I'll call it the disease
Countin' on a remedy
I've counted on before
Goin' with a cure that's never failed me
What you call the disease,
I call the remedy
What you're callin' the cause,
I call the cure