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The condom display must be interesting!

D: Dead or Alive

A bunch of MTV Party To Go CDs from back in the day when the "M" stood for "Music." Some artists that may ring a bell (from the oldest CD to newer ones, I've left out artists I think everyone knows): MC Hammer Bell Biv Devoe Vanilla Ice Digital Underground Depeche Mode Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Boyz II Men Salt-N-Pepa C+C Music Factory Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch TLC En Vogue Kris Kross Rupaul Coolio R. Kelly 'N Sync 98 Degrees

<shudder> Reminds me of my tech-support calls that wind up in India ... I'm sure they're trained well, it's not like U.S. trained personell are better trained or smarter, so maybe it's a cultural thing?

I hope everyone's OK in New Orleans and elsewhere. I also hope if it turns out to be an overreaction they won't let their guard down the next time a storm goes through. We've had a string of perfect weather. Not enough rain, the lawn's struggling, but there's been more rain than in the past 'cause the lawn USED to be entirely dormant by now.

Kyle-XY

Russians? I think the question answers itself. And ... it's not the first time?!?

An eclectic (eccentric?) mix of CDs: GTR, self titled James Blunt, Back To Bedlam John Mayer, Continuum Keb' Mo', Suitcase I still get a kick out of hearing the censored version of Blunt's Your Beautiful at work: "Flying High" HA!

$3.89 ... until they use the incoming hurricane as an excuse to jack 'em up again.

The radio (currently, I think, MGMT, Electric Feel ).

So a trip to Wal-Mart NOW is Hell on Earth?

Might as well keep ya updated: The "other guy's" insurance company said I'd have to have my insurance company deal with my claim. Let's see if Allstate lives up to their poor reputation. What's DDD mean again?

A married couple was in a terrible accident where the man's face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn't graft any skin from his body because he was too skinny. So the wife offered to donate some of her own skin. However, the only skin on her body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from her buttocks. The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and they requested that the doctor also honor their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter. After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at

Unfortunate. I never thought we'd get THIS far without a serious incident.

Oh boy, now I'm mad! According to your math I've been giving over 100% for decades and it's gotten me nowhere!

All I felt was a shake and heard the wham, since the side of his truck "rubbed" the corner of mine I wasn't jarred enough to get even a little bit hurt. I know if you get jarred badly it can mess up your muscles for a long time, nothin' like that happened though. I kinda-sorta wish the other guy had been given a ticket for improper lane useage, it'd be easier dealing with the insurance companies. But since I was pulling out of a drive and turning left I'm glad no tickets were issued rather than tickets for both of us. Like I would need to deal with that too! It was a no-passing zone in t

Minor (for me) fender bender. I was pulling out of a gas station, a semi-tractor/trailer stopped to let me out since traffic was backed up anyway. I started to pull out, looked for traffic, there was none, and proceeded to pull out to make a left turn. WHAM. Seems someone didn't want to wait for traffic to clear to make his left turn at the next light, so he went AROUND the semi by driving in the oncoming traffic lane. Didn't see him since the semi was blocking my view to the left -- which I didn't consider since there certainly wouldn't be any vehicles coming from THAT direction, right? I

Redhat's a classic! Took me a moment, then ...

In the Internet Explorer section UN-check Temporary Internet Files (not positive this NEEDS to be done, but cookies are stored alongside your Temporary Internet Files so the program MAY delete cookies too with this setting), Cookies (obviously), and Delete Index.dat files (these files contain all the information that's in the temp directory including your cookies, delete this file and cookies are gone too). IE has a setting under Tools, Internet Options, Privacy tab, that deletes temp files when you close IE, but it's smart enough to leave cookies alone (at least, the version of IE I'm using

Marty, snow & high winds? What SHOULD it be like this time of year? Still Summer-y here, bright & sunny, temps in the low eighties. Perfect for most people. Rain's comin' for the weekend.

Yesterday: Gorillaz Today: Laurie Anderson What with the Olympics going on and all I am always reminded, when they play the National Anthem, of this fake Public Service Announcement Laurie did for a PBS show she did many moons ago. Because of this PSA I can NEVER listen to the National Anthem without giggling a little (how bad is that?).

The ex-coworker who got me hooked paid a visit last night and he was wearing a concert t-shirt from the last time he saw them live, so of course I HAD to listen to ... Dream Theater, Systematic Chaos

Da blues (a little Chicago lingo there): B.B. King, B.B. King & Friends With; Van Morrison, Billy F. Gibbons, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Daryl Hall, John Mayer, Mark Knopfler, Glenn Frey, Gloria Estefan, Roger Daltry, Bobby "Blue" Bland and Elton John.

I must have a MILLION stories (a SURE sign I'm old), here's a moving story: I was moving my Niece from Minneapolis/St. PauL back to the Chicago area. I had a pickup truck (so I was the "go-to" guy for moves). It was filled up ridiculously high, however we had a tarp over the contents and I had threaded rope through grommets in the tarp and the side rails on the pickup bed. Looked tidy to me. So halfway home I began to think something was up because no cars had passed me for miles and miles. I was in the right lane of a superhighway -- Where are all the speeders? I looked in the rearview mirr