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i've been trying to use up yarn. cuz i keep buying more. but the yarn i'm buying more of is nice yarn, like noro kureyon and nashua. that stuff is better for my fingers and soul than acrylic.

so i ordered some kureyon today cuz it's bootifully self-striping and i want to make a stripey-ribbed scarf for wintertime.

speaking of wintertime, i need to reevaluate my morning routine for when there's snow on the ground; what with walking jones, showering, scraping car, eating breakfast, making coffee, etc.

also, too, i need a new winter coat. my black leather was never very warm, and it's getting even less so as it wears out.

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here's yours truly.. at maybe 2 or 3:

and again at 8?:

and 9.. at the mifflin st block party:

and here's my mom's dad, ray. we always called him "grampa gink" for some reason. and he always called me a silly goose. the button on his hat says, "you can always tell a norwegian—but you can't tell him much!"

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this is the cutest thing you'll see today.

DevilDucky - Baby Panda Sneezes

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kurt and i (and a couple buds) were interviewed for yet another "what do you think of the smoking ban?" article which may or may not appear in the wisco journal in the next two weeks. i don't know if the reporter will quote me, but she was kind enough to ask, "do any of you spell your first names funny?"

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here's jones being a gooboy.

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this morning was one of those mornings where i went from perkins on univ. ave to the "welcome to middleton" sign at branch street without even noticing the fact that i was controlling a moving vehicle.

we're getting a composter finally cuz the new guy downstairs wanted to know if the city had a kitchen waste compost (they don't) and i've been bugging joe for one for a while now.

i wish i could pay someone to take my car to get the oil changed and get it washed while i'm at work. those two vehicular-maintenance tasks annoy me.

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i just made beet, carrot, apple, orange juice. according to the cancer nutrition center, if you drink straight beet juice it can paralyze your vocal chords. weird.

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i haven't rapped about the ferrets in a long time.. see, since we got jones, and they have an a/c in the bedroom; we haven't been very good ferret owners. :/ we don't play with them as much as we should.

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i saw this truck on the way to work. i wonder if jones would hate them coming to visit.
Sittin' Pretty -=- Mobile dog and cat grooming -=- Madison Wisconsin

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i don't want anything stuck to my car because of what i think of other people with things stuck to their car. especially people with "W '04", "marriage = 1man + 1woman", "it's a child, not a choice". but two i've seen in the last 12 hours which stuck with me are "dick cheney eats kittens", and "stupidity should be painful".

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i have a knot in my shoulder that keeps migrating from one side to the other but won't go away.

also, on my drive home friday, my left hand started tingling.

and i had a panic attack during a meeting this morning and had to ask to be excused.

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every once in a while, i dig out a past friday five and compare answers.. let's see how i compare to roughy 3 years ago (answers from 2003 in italics).

1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
does iowa count? well, i'll be... iowa it is, again! kurt and i went to dubuque in march.
2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?
i lost a yo-yo (or was it a slinky?) when i was 4. we ran into dave chapelle at a duane reade when in nyc last year. that was awesome.
3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
australia 4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
i don't really like planes... i don't like being a passenger even more than i don't like driving. maybe i should try a train. i haven't travelled by train yet.. still don't really care for planes or being a passenger. driving has grown on me.
5. What's the next place on your list to visit?
portland. i'm really not in the mood, lately, for travel.

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jones has been pretty good at walking off leash for about a month now. kurt's been trying since a week after we got him. well, yesterday, he proved to kurt that jones does not quite understand the concept. apparently, they were walking down thornton on the river-side, and jones saw his bff bella across willy. so, he bolted across, in front of a car in which the driver had to lock up his breaks. it was a close call. i'm hoping both jones and kurt learned something from this.

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we had a visitor on saturday:

luckily s/he left quietly through the opened-screen-closed-window.

here's the story though: i was cleaning the ferret cage and went out into the livingroom and this bat was flying around and i had to go finish cleaning so i could put the ferrets away; by that time i lost the bat and i brought jones out into the livingroom to look for it and he went over to the window that the bat was hanging in and didn�t even see it. so i put him back in the bedroom cuz i didn�t want a rabies incident and then i finally found the bat. omg.

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it must look like i've fallen off the face of the earth!

believe you me, i haven't. i've just been very busy at work and very sweaty at home. i've even had the computer off for the last couple days so it doesn't overheat.

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