My wife recently recieved an email which, while poorly written, had enough information in it to potentially cause someone monitoring emails (if that really happens) to look twice and read on.
Long story short, my wife is originally from the UK.
OK - maybe not *that* short.
One of her friends there is having a fight with her [...]

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Can I do it?  I don’t know for certain, but I’m going to give it a try.  This might replace my ‘run a marathon’ ‘new year resolution”, as it’s more attainable, and I need to take things a step at a time (no pun intended).
A few days ago I was invited to join some other [...]

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Had a decent amount of driving again in the last couple weeks:
419.6 miles - 12.33 gallons to fill up (@ $3.929 - not over the $4 some of you are paying, but still painful!)
That’s 34.03 mpg for the last fill up.  I had some highway driving, which seems to really help kick it up past [...]

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I’ve had an introspective few days, taking stock of life and whatnot.  The recent IQ tests (and first set of results) played a part in this renewed self-examination, but it’s been brewing for a while.  I stumbled on this page and it was as if someone had been following me around for the past 15 [...]

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Here’s a bit of proof that I was in Australia recently.  I’m not very good with pictures (by “with” I mean being in them or ever doing anything with the pics I do take), but I was able to do a couple here for posterity.

“Burger King” by any other name tastes just as scrumptious…

 Did [...]

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Wow - this is one of the few times I’ve had genuinely good dealings with tax officials.  Quick story:  I’d moved away from Michigan in late 2004, and did some consulting work in 2005.  One of the people I’d paid as a straight 1099 lived in Michigan for part of 2005.  In April (letter dated [...]

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Wow - can’t believe I missed this. Just heard a couple tracks and it’s classic Ray. Can’t speak to the whole album cause I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but I’ll be picking it up shortly.  Working Man’s Cafe @ Amazon
If somehow you don’t know who Ray Davies is, please have a [...]

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Tomorrow, Feb 14, is my 10th anniversary.  I’ve been married to my great wife Lesley for 10 years.  Today is really the last day of the 10th years we’ve been married - tomorrow starts year 11!  I’ve never done*anything* for 10 years except be alive. Never lived at any one address for 10 years - [...]

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Was just discussing the idea of someone playing me in my life story.  The story would also involve me trying to be like that particular celebrity.  So, the celeb would be playing someone who was trying to be like them, but failing at it (for comedic effect).  Or perhaps succeeding.  I dunno.  I call the [...]

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Wow - I was just blown away reading this story @ Yahoo this morning.  Debit cards you can use against your 401k.  Borrowing against your 401k has traditionally been a ‘last resort’, because if you didn’t repay it within 60 days of leaving a company, you had to count it as regular income, pay tax, [...]

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