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I’ve been avoiding talking about this unless it’s been directly mentioned. Partially because I just didn’t want to be thinking about it so much, and partially because when I told people about it I wanted as much information as possible. But I’m done with that now. We know all we’re going to know and it’s […]

Cigarettes today have on average 10% more nicotine than 6 years ago. The brands popular with kids have 20% more.

Saturday my left nostril wouldn’t stop draining. I figured some plaster dust got up there and was irritating things. I went to bed at midnight at got up at 2am Sunday morning because my nose was still a mess and I kept waking Nicole up. So I watched Moonlighting and Hell Boy and sorted recycling. […]

I opened my freezer this afternoon to, what looked like at first a complete frosted mess. My first thought was that the frost-free cycle had broken so I closed the freezer door because I didn’t want to deal with it. Then I decided to look again and realized that I didn’t have to tug against […]

Yesterday I was on Pacific Avenue waiting for Nicole outside of the cosmetics shopand thumbing through a book. After a few minutes of that I notice a bee is trying to land on me. I quickly move about 10 feet away, which usually gets bees to go about their business. This bee found me again […]

I’m having a go of not taking any allergy meds right now (unless this get really bad). So far it’s working out just fine. I’m sneezing about twice a day and I have to blow my nose occasionally but that’s nothing compared to before I started getting allergy shots. On meds I sneeze about twice […]

As topteddy was sayng and I was agreeing, a lot of it is that I want to know why he thought I was a nazi? Was it how I was dressed? Was it something I did? Am I projecting this to others? What was it?

All this week I have been going home around 12:30 PM to let the dogs out and play with them a bit before turning around and coming back to work for a 2PM meeting. It doesn’t matter that ever day I’ve come back to find the 2PM meeting pushed to the next day. On my […]

I’m ready for the current push for out demo to be done at work. I don’t mind a push when I know the end date, but when it keeps getting pushed back it gets to be more draining than if you had been shooting for the late date to begin with. I want have time […]

When we left to go to the store last night the dogs wanted to go. We didn’t want them to go so they stayed home, but they decided they would eat something to show their displeasure. When this happens they generally don’t greet us when we come home because they know they did something they […]