Archive for January, 2003
Thursday, January 23rd, 2003
brrrrr (or, it’s effing freezing)
today’s projected low? 3 degrees
today’s projected high? 6 degrees
expected wind chill factor? -20 degrees
arizona is looking mighty good right about now.
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003
shameless begging (or, how to get me a birthday present you *know* i’ll like)
oh, this stuff is just great. seeing as how my birthday is in a few weeks, i would just love it if someone got me a sweatshirt or t-shirt, size medium. hee hee hee.
in other news, this continued cold kinda makes me feel like partying.
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2003
saw an interesting nature-type thing
saw an interesting nature-type thing on the walk home from the bus stop yesterday. there was a large flock of some sort of migratory bird up in the trees, and it was HUGE! several trees had their upper branches literally blanketed, with hundreds more wheeling around in the sky, and still others flying [...]
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Monday, January 20th, 2003
Sister starts climbing! News at 11.
w00t!
my sister has caught the climbing bug!!!
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Monday, January 20th, 2003
lovely low-key weekend.
lovely low-key weekend. friday night was dinner with the slf’s parents. saturday morning we made some craps in her new crap pan, which has been a bit of a tradition on saturday mornings for us now. then we grabbed the new climbing shoes i bought her for xmas, and we went to [...]
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Friday, January 17th, 2003
How to say “poo” to the client and not get fired.
two funny work stories that have to do with the same client (a toy manufacturer):
we’re working on a database-driven website for the aforementioned client, and we need to have it done in time for the big toyfair show. there’s lots of problems with their db, since it’s to be used by their manufacturers, suppliers [...]
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Thursday, January 16th, 2003
Got Horny?
on the bus this morning, i saw over a woman’s shoulder the title of the magazine article she was reading, “glamour’s foods for a hornier you.” i’m speechless.
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2003
i *heart* teh intrenet
if i haven’t said it before, let me say again, i love doing things online. no big deal for anyone, right? shopping, bill payment, etc.
the thing is, i’ve been online for a long, long time; since the days of mosaic 0.9, and i’ve been doing online transactions for pretty much as long [...]
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2003
Kournikova Says She Doesn’t Have a Tattoo (of something other than the sexiest man alive)
Photo Credit: Pat Kent Photo Manipulation, Inc.MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuters) – Anna Kournikova has settled one of the debates at this year’s Australian Open—the fabled tattoo on her back does exist.
Speculation has been rife after Kournikova was photographed with a large plaster on her back just above the waistband of her skirt.
But laughing at reports the [...]
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Monday, January 13th, 2003
all in all, not a
all in all, not a bad weekend, unless you’re a pittsburgh sports fan.
saturday a.m. the slf and i went to go see my beloved rangers take apart the penguins. slf had actually waited on a few rangers at her restaurant the night before, and said some sort of something about promising them to take [...]
