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I don't know what I would do. My brother is getting married later this year, and I do somewhat wonder if his fiancee will change her name ... partly I wonder because she has the same first name as me, only spelled differently. I was talking about this with friends a couple of weeks ago. One friend's...

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Barcelona is a great city.

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Yay!!! I'll do better this month!!

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A Stapler.
The bottom of a weighted Sellotape dispenser.
My foot. (for hammering in tent pegs)
A Shoe

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The thing with using wikipedia as a source goes beyond the fact that it's not always reliable ... there's also the fact that, because it's all worked on by anyone who wants to, the data you see today and cite is not the data you see tomorrow. It's less static, and that has its good and bad points.

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Hiya Bob! I spent so much money at the travel agents today that my EFTPOS card declined - the dollar value was over its limit! Flights are all paid for now, tickets are booked and being ticketed. Some seats are chosen, some I can't choose. Unfortunately the Hong Kong choice got taken away from me - ...

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I think I agree, the hero is the narrator. I just had a sudden thought with regards to the 'original' manuscript ... someone who writes 56 (or however many) pages about packing and unpacking was either doing a VERY early version of "NaNoWriMo" or it was a self-published - vanitypublished -...

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Dear Bob,

how many other people will I piss off today?

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Hi Bob, Train timetables suck. Trying to figure out accurate costs for a trip on the other side of the world two months in advance suck. Having to shell out another $2700 for those tickets within a week sucks. Trying to figure out costs so I can decide if I want to spend a night in Hong Kong sucks. ...

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I read this a year or three ago, and I'm annoyed I didn't check this thread before going to the library last weekend! GAH! (I'll see if I can find it today). A lot of what I remember about the first part is when he's scouring the bookstores to find a copy of this book that he had remembered adoring ...

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Mmmm, Spring....

and I'm not sure if I want it to snow or not in December.

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*points out that the destruction of the World Trade Center also closed subway lines*

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Or, as someone at work put it ... 13+ people died in flooding in Myanmar and Thailand. 5+ people died in a head on train smash in northern France. 4 people died when a Yankees pitcher crashed his plane into a building in NYC. Which one got the most news coverage? And if it hadn't been a big name on ...

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Dear Bob, It's amazing just how much difference it makes when planning a trip goes from planning to concrete plans. Starting out with "We'll visit France and Spain and Switzerland" and "I want to get to Boston for a while" (which really means Massachusetts, only that has too many...

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A few weeks ago, when I went out to grab sushi for lunch, I ended up with about 4 or 5 different orders. I let a few people ahead of me in the line, and then made my requests during a slight lull. when I got up to order number 5, the guy behind me said "Look, can I just pay for this and go?&quo...

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Happy Thanksgiving, Canadians!

Is this a ploy to ensure advertising for Christmas can start now?

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Hey Bob,

Be sure to tell Dr Mobius to remind his smiley to wear sunscreen.

I read a book in the sun yesterday and, well, didn't. Oops!

RJ

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It's THURSDAY!!

I'm very thankful for that.
I'm thankful that Ratey gets to live a day ahead of us and tell us what it's like in the future.

Today was sunny and Friday-like. It was cool earlier in the day, and there's a pleasant breeze at present.

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I managed to figure out the Proforma Update run ... even if I don't know why some of them didn't match...

I also came up with an idea or two that need putting into play, which ought to make life easier on people. *touch wood*

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I used to have time (in a former life) to surf around the internet during work... now I barely do (I just changed jobs). Maybe sometime later, but I probably won't check anything but email - I'm out of the habit of it. And if you do everything at work it's boring when you come home.

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It's THURSDAY!!

I'm very thankful for that.

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Wow, what a lot of stuff for such a tiny episode ... that I won't get to see for a while anyway.

What bizarre happenings in sleepytown.

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*hugs Alea*
*hugs Ali*
*hugs Rei*

Just cos...

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Hell* delivers free on Tuesdays*!!

*Hell = Hell Pizza - www.hell.co.nz
**Tuesday - for this corner of the world, anyway!

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*glares at that plainly untrue statement*

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In many ways it seems to me that a lot of it comes down to interpretation. Someone reads one thing into it; someone else reads something else.

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Seems weird to me. I'd be worried I'd wake up in the middle of the night to a crash when it fell on the floor. one of the things in the FAQ on that page is how to get your books to stop screaming in agony. They suggest rubbing the books with crushed tylenol tablets. That seems WAY too gimmicky a com...

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The hardest (and scariest!) part is figuring out just how much of an idea you need to make it through the words.

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I baked TWO meals this weekends without using ANY packets.

I also managed to, last night, deal with cooking dinner, a bit of chicken for lunches, and something sweet to bribe work with, all at the same time (mostly).

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Dear Bank Statement,
Please be easy this morning. Please don't take up half the day - I have other things to do as well!

Me

Dear Apple Cake,
Please be nice.

Me.

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*hugs Alea*
Thank you!

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I did it last year (Daffodil Lane). I did it the year before (Haunted House). I did it the year before that (Adeth Wanderer) and the year before that even (Kaiawatepo). I even FINISHED all of those years. As to whether I'll be doing it a month from now ... I really don't know. Probably. I guess the ...

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Given nobody knows where it comes from, how could it be back to front or upside down or anything?

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*hugs Alea*

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Rory has gone to college, but I don't think I've met Logan. Then again, some of the time I didn't like her with Jess, and at the end of Season Four I didn't like her with Dean either.

*sigh*

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