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Jazz

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Cool - it looks like Norah Jones did a pretty good job at the Grammys. She’s got an awesome voice.

On a similar note, a couple of my Sis’ friends in NM who recently moved from Chicago recommended the Green Mill - a former Capone speakeasy that has live jazz seven nights a week. Add that to my list of things to do when I move downtown.

Home Again

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Back home safe and sound from NM - Will be posting pics all in good time! :)

p.s. Green chile, green chile, green chile!

Hi From NM

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A quick hello from New Mexico. I’m down here visiting the sis for the weekend. It’s good to get out and see some hills again. Today, we rode on the world’s longest passenger tram up to Sandia Peak to have lunch. Magnificent. My late new year’s resolution is to get outside more once spring/summer hits.
I may also have to smuggle some green chile back home with me. I’ve had it breakfast, lunch, and dinner so far and I don’t see it stopping anytime soon.

Aloha, for now.

Tax unRefund

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For those of you getting a nice hefty tax refund - enjoy the money you have to the government for the past year.

Sorry…I’m bitter. I owe nearly $1000. Bah

English Matters!

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Congrats to cia for being accepted into “English Matters”, the EAPSU Undergraduate Conference at Bloomsburg University. deep breath

Back Up and Running!

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Thankfully, I discovered today that my motherboard is not dead afterall. It’s just the two processors that died. How very odd. I guess it’s alright, though, because I wanted to upgrade anyway. Now I’m up two 2x 2400+. Schweeet!

Americans Have “Ungood Grammar”

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A recent ICQ log study by BBspot shows that Americans have “Ungood Grammar”. Hehe.

“‘How r u?’ roughly translate means ‘How our you?’ How difficult is it to type out the entire word porperly. We don’t put the balm entirley on Americans, we think AOL (creater of the software) is responsible for installing a grammer UNchecker which purposefully distorts the persons’ grammer. All american’s can’t be that stuipid? Kan they?”
Other interesting data found in the study were common mispellings such as; “loose” for “lose”, “4” for “for” and “Democrats” for “winners.”
Got to love that last one, no?

21 Dead in Club Stampede

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Wow - It’s a good thing I wasn’t at that club. This was on the South side of Chicago early Monday morning. GoogleNews

A fight between two girls has lead to the deaths of at least 21 people, who were crushed as they tried to flee a Chicago nightclub.

There were more than 1,500 people in the two storey Epitome Night Club when someone released pepper spray or Mace into the air.

he was checking his coat at the second-floor cloakroom when people surged out, pushing him back down the stairs.

The 30-year-old from Gary, Indiana said people started tripping halfway down the stairwell, falling on those ahead of them.

He said he was trapped in the stairwell for about half an hour, lying on top of the bodies, until firefighters rescued him.

Geek Horoscope

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via BBspot

You’ll discover the person of your dreams this week, unfortunately it wasn’t a good week for dreams.
Doh - oh well.