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keesan
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response 700 of 1000:
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May 26 15:14 UTC 2002 |
It is NOT raining today and we will go out somewhere near town to test our
'new' bikes on dirt roads after hand pollinating the pawpaws (probably too
late, the rainy spell fell in the middle of the pollen season).
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clees
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response 701 of 1000:
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May 26 20:55 UTC 2002 |
Been shopping at the best bike shop in town.
Harvest 1 castelli shirt, 2 cycle shorts, 1 pair of gloves, a, 18 piece
tool kit you can store in your saddle bag, 1 bandana, a mini lock with
code and something I forgot. Been checking out touring bikes too.
I spend a lot of money on cycling.
It's well spent, though.
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jaklumen
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response 702 of 1000:
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May 26 22:57 UTC 2002 |
resp:691 was this the character that had a jewelry-type box with his
shuriken in it? Bald guy with white hair, white mustache? If so, I
remember that show..
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keesan
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response 703 of 1000:
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May 27 02:18 UTC 2002 |
Time for the spring biking item - look in the low 200's. The pawpaws were
only halfway through their pollination season so we stood on a stepladder
passing little tofu tubs and a makeup brush back and forth pretending to be
carrion beetles. The flowers are first male (pollen) then after the pollen
turns brown and falls off, but before the red hamburg colored petals fall off
the stigma becomes sticky. If you pollinate at just the right time, the
cluster of little green bananas starts to grow. We found in the flowers a
miscellaneous collection of pollen-covered ladybugs, flies, ants and one pale
pink spider. The traditional way to pollinate pawpaw trees is to attract
carrion beetles and dung flies by hanging roadkill in the branches. This is
not a neighborly thing to do in the city. We discovered that pitcher plants
(which attract files for their nitrogen content and have downward pointing
hairs that keep them from crawling out of the pitcher) have the same blood-red
color of flowers, also pointing downwards, with an enormous green flat part
that the bugs have to crawl around to get out. They are in bloom today too.
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jaklumen
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response 704 of 1000:
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May 27 03:47 UTC 2002 |
IHB one of my sisters came to visit the baby on her way home from
Seattle.
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glenda
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response 705 of 1000:
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May 27 14:57 UTC 2002 |
Life is good when you can be sitting here catching up on Grex while playing
fetch with a kitty. Silly thing loves to chase the ring from a milk jug and
figured out that if he brings it back and makes a tiny meow it will get
thrown again for him to chase.
One of the females will also play fetch with the ring. She also invented a
kind of tag game that she plays with Damon and sometimes with Staci.
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oval
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response 706 of 1000:
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May 27 14:59 UTC 2002 |
a new friend has offered to let me borrow her video camera and teach me final
cut in exchange for teaching her how to build a website. i'm excited.
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tpryan
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response 707 of 1000:
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May 27 15:21 UTC 2002 |
Well, this computer is grexing while the good computer is burning
.mp3 data CDs. Good separation of work.
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other
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response 708 of 1000:
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May 27 16:07 UTC 2002 |
Final Cut comes with a pretty decent tutorial.
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ea
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response 709 of 1000:
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May 27 17:27 UTC 2002 |
IHB the Syracuse Lacrosse team won the NCAA Championship today, beating
Princeton 13-12
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michaela
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response 710 of 1000:
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May 27 18:42 UTC 2002 |
IHB I just rearranged my apartment. The space is utilized *much* better.
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anderyn
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response 711 of 1000:
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May 28 02:38 UTC 2002 |
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michaela
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response 712 of 1000:
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May 28 02:49 UTC 2002 |
That's a cottage? :)
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anderyn
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response 713 of 1000:
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May 28 03:06 UTC 2002 |
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coyote
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response 714 of 1000:
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May 28 03:28 UTC 2002 |
IHB I picked up my WCBN t-shirt today. It has printed on it a slogan ripped
out of a nasty review that the Michigan Review (U-M's ridiculous conservative
student newspaper) printed about us: "Free thinking, progressive, pretentious
with a capital 'P'"
I also got to spend some quality time with my sister on Saturday, which was
nice since we don't spend much time together. Got dinner, walked around
downtown, got coffee, and saw Monsoon Wedding.
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clees
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response 715 of 1000:
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May 28 06:21 UTC 2002 |
I'd call that a mansion.
It would do more than $ 1,000,000 over here
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grimaldi
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response 716 of 1000:
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May 28 07:27 UTC 2002 |
Went to the last day of the DEMF.. Never been into Electronica and the like.
but Iwas very amused, so much so I spent 7 hours there. met a cute artsy chick
who wanted to take my picture, we had coffe, hung out, talked, I looked in
her sketch book, she sketched me.. :) and we've got a date for saturday. Who
knew. :)
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oval
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response 717 of 1000:
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May 28 07:36 UTC 2002 |
kickass.
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remmers
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response 718 of 1000:
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May 28 12:24 UTC 2002 |
IVHB I made the semi-finals in the World Championship Old-Time Piano
Playing Contest. It was held in Peoria, Illinois this past weekend.
(So yes, I have "played in Peoria".)
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slynne
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response 719 of 1000:
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May 28 12:57 UTC 2002 |
I think it is very common, in Michigan at least, to refer to any summer
home as a cottage. I remember visiting Newport R.I. as a child and
while on some tour of a mansion, my father said "Now *this* is *some*
cottage!"
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bhelliom
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response 720 of 1000:
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May 28 13:19 UTC 2002 |
Congrats, Remmers! Perhaps you'll be able to show off your skills soon
for an all-Grex audience?
IHB it was a great weekend, with friends and family sharing food and
conversation on Monday.
IAHB it looks as if the Celexa/Wellbutrin combination is starting to
work a little. I'm getting a few of the more pleasant side effects
(dry-mouth, a little fatigue) from the Celexa, which at least lets me
know that the most recent edition to the cocktail (Celexa) will have
some effect, and is interacting well with the Wellbutrin. And since I
haven't experienced the bad side effects, I may be getting the full
dosage soon, which would be nice.
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scott
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response 721 of 1000:
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May 28 13:56 UTC 2002 |
Called the local car-repair place this morning and got an appointment for
"bring on down and we'll work on it today". This is to fix the "radiator
support mostly rusted away, on an otherwise rust-free car" problem I reported
in the Bummed item.
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edina
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response 722 of 1000:
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May 28 14:46 UTC 2002 |
Good weekend. Excellent weekend. I feel like shaking my groove thing.
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orinoco
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response 723 of 1000:
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May 28 15:15 UTC 2002 |
Shook my groove thing all weekend. Or, more accurately, leapt up and down
with it. I just got back late last night from this year's Midwest Morris Ale.
Lots of good dancing and singing, and the show dances that Ann Arbor put on
went spectacularly well. There's a three person dance that some of the
younger people on the team do at pub stops called "Three Delinquent Youth."
Usually, the reaction it gets is "oh, yeah, that one again." This time, we
had people we barely knew congratulating us all weekend on dancing it so well.
Our big show dance went pretty much flawlessly, after we'd tripped up on it
time and again while practicing. Hells yeah.
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flem
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response 724 of 1000:
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May 28 16:33 UTC 2002 |
Went to an old friend's wedding in New Orleans this weekend. The wedding
itself was short, traditional, and sweet. There was a break between the
wedding and the reception, during which I got myself lost in downtown New
Orleans in a rental car, an activity I highly recommend if you're handy enough
with a map to extract yourself afterwards. They have beautiful old trees
there.
The travel was interesting. I had fairly cheap tickets via Priceline.com.
I'd heard horror stories about how unfriendly and non-accomodating airline
employees can be to people with Priceline tickets, especially if something
goes wrong. Sure enough, something went wrong on the very first leg of my
rather crooked flight path: my first flight was two hours delayed, more than
enough to miss my connecting flight. The airline (US Airways) called my house
to let me know (I missed the message), and when I got to the Toledo airport,
the ticket counter workers were very helpful, working with me to arrange
an even more crooked flight plan that would get me to the wedding on time,
arranging for a hotel room for the night, and doing all the paperwork so that
I wouldn't get hassled at other airports for Priceline tickets. So other than
having to be up at 4 a.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Sunday to catch my flights, no
harm was done. I'm going to see if I can fly out of Toledo more often.
Interesting fact: I was on five different flights this weekend; on four
of them I was "randomly selected" at the gate for additional security
searches.
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