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The math for ljmatch must be a bit off.. it has me connecting with persis at 102%.

( my revised ljmatch rankings )

Brother has another gig at the shipyard, and has picked up a cell phone. It looks like he's moving ahead nicely.

I go in for my checkup today, and hopefully some more solid options will avail themselves to me.

I need to get back into the writing habit... post stuff here that I'm posting There. I have to commit to a minimum of forty minutes a day of just writing. I enjoy rereading memories from times past.

A year ago - bookstore, Viking ships, braids, Underoos, bad Iran Barbie grammar, people watching, photogenic folks, brothel/church/bowling memory

two years ago - evil news, phaster search, music poll, first sighting of the man-monkey in Delhi, The Gambler, meemee sent me a colored picture of bubbles, old newt pic, south of the border, story about my brother and myself when I was 8, space movies.

three years ago - thankful for memorial day.

( more flippity-flip wet weather. )

How did Bob Hope live to see 100? Good Job, Bob!

Well, another three weeks of working from home. :( I sent off my first payment for COBRA this week, and have to submit the bill to accounting for expense reimbursement. (I go on company insurance at the top of august.

Plus side, three more weeks of physical therapy have been approved. Thank goodness for PCAnywhere.

I received a sweet letter from Rachel today, and her life seems so delightful right now. I'm very happy for her and her hubbie.

The revised regions of There are amazing... most have been at least a little cosmetically reworked, and some are downright new and improved.

Random Scotto factoid - Being a kraut, I have a gene that allows me to yodel.

Random German Joke:

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I really don't sound anything like this. but we do, what we can, don't we? - Newt returns.

revamp of the old talking heads site.

flashback thanks to mskaren911 for the new linkie... I really don't like the custom submission method, spam roulette, but it's fun anyhow.

If this had been the real Dr. Doom, the kid would be a smoking puddle right now

Sweden bans 'Superman' baby name

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This is what I'll use when someone asks me about free speech in other countries. When you can't even make your kid have a wacky *MIDDLE NAME*, then I think it's time to change countries.




A Florida family is suing Dr. Doom.

There are so many fascinating things about this article. There's the fact that the woman suing Dr. Doom is named "Buffy". There's the fact that they think a guy yelling at their misbehaving brat is worth 15 grand. There's the fact that when this poor schmuck grabbed his neck because the kid yanked his head back, the family interpreted this as a threat, which means that they're essentially suing for something that was their fault. There's this:

"Skinner said Brozovich was not playing the character of Dr. Doom during the confrontation."

How do they know that? Seriously. I mean, how do they know that it wouldn't be in character for Dr. Doom, who is, after all, a supervillain, to threaten to break the fingers of a kid who yanked on his cape? I would think that would be, short of actually breaking the kid's fingers, quite in character for ol' Vic.

And finally, there's this:

"Skinner said she thinks the incident wasn't taken seriously when she reported it to park management."

No kidding. (thank you seebelow!)