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i hear they have beer in vending machines there. i also hear that it (and everything) costs a shitload. one of the most expensive countries to visit. changed planes there once a few years ago. sweet view of Mt. Fuji as we were coming in to land.

thanks Selkirk. I don't, buy my parents both spent the bulk of their careers at the US Department of State. by the time Powell took its helm in 2000, Dad was retired but Mom was still working there. she only met Powell like once i think but she did, thru the course of her day to day work, learn alot about the man. she had many good things to say about him, including the fact that he was an extremely intelligent, rational, levelheaded man.... and BTW she's about as liberal as they come.

i want to see a re-post of that pic someone posted a few months ago... sort of a WWII-recruitment-poster-looking thing, with Condi dressed up in military garb w/big smile, and the caption "I'M FIGHTING FOR WHITEY". (sorry, don't have time to go search for it right now, myself)

saw Tool there a couple years back, which ed. security made me throw away my keychain-carabiner at the door tho.... bastids. (you know, those biners which are like 2.5 inches long and say "Not For Climbing Use". said that it could be used as a brass-knuckles-type instrument.) it's like Give... Me... A... Fuckin... Break, ya punkass, lawsuit-paranoid morons!! yeah but so the KA is OK, at least as far as big arenas go.. decent sound n' all.

fun night. no movies, which was kindof a bummer (unless it happened after we left at like 1 am i think it was). but oh well.. good music, good peeps.

when bought my first/only set of AT gear a few years back, the sales guy in one store said that the only drawback of Dynafits was that ice/snow gets crusted into the toe-holes, which I could totally see happening... also just in general they didn't/don't look very sturdy or beefy for some reason... dont seem like they'd grip yer boots well. so i got Fritschis, which i liked 100% for a while, but then after about 8-9 days of use the heel started unclipping (went into touring mode) sometimes when it wasn't supposed to!! like when i would do something stressing the binding, like a turn in powder, etc. so for a while i was just thinking the bindings sucked, but then eventually i took em back to the store that installed them and it turned out that the moron who'd done so hadn't lined up the rear piece correctly, so it was all like cockeyed. (& this BTW was prettymuch unnoticable to me, but the shop tech realized it right away). they also said the guy who installed them no longer worked there, and hadn't been the greatest installer anyways. so i ended up getting a new pair of skis for free that day!! .... totally solved the problem.

so you going Lionel? anyone else goin? i was gonna go to the Pyramid thing Saturday but then waited till the last minute to look into (or even think of necessity of) getting tickets. website says they're sold out, and girl i talked to at Pyramid confirmed this. so, will have to settle for this shindig. hopefully the $20 donation will make it not sell out.. of course it's only 12 tho, when you figure on the complimentary beers...

true, but so is Ariel Sharon. not to mention Dubya.

i DO like the idea of a law requiring us to vote... tho i also think it would never get passed in America. now the idea of the absentee ballot w/prepaid postage.. that would also increase voter turnout and COULD feasibly be enacted. i also like the idea of a law banning the habit so many people seem to have of turning nouns into adjectives by adding "-esque"... for me it rivals the improper use of apostrophe's (er, apostrophes) as being the-single-most-annoying thing people do with the written word.

nice pics, IG! and congratulations! intristing that dogs can have only one pup sometimes ... i too dint know that.

got cougar?

... what might, just might, have been the biggest, most painful zit i've ever had. like EVER. in all my 32 years. no joke. squeezed out enuf stuff to decorate a cake with. and there's still some in there... stay tuned for updates.

i met Hunter S last nite at the Showbox. pretty damn cool costume. he thought my dreadlock-wig-with-rasta-hat was all right too.

sweeet!! hey happy birthday 'chelle! what a cool day to be born on.

moving to West Seattle!!! hopefully will also find some time Sat. nite for some costumed autumnal debaucheries.

too funny. back in college I once dressed up as Castro actually. was a pretty easy costume at the time. I had plenty of poor-college-kid green army clothes, including green baseball cap.. also had a beard, which was reddish brown but I sorta half-dyed it black.. also smoked a couple cigars slowly throughout the evening. at the party I went to, most peeps liked it, but there was this one Latino guy who was sorta giving me the evil eye a couple times.... musta had relatives who are Cuban exiles or something. let's see... at this other party one year, there was this girl who dressed up as an outhouse. she had used some kind of huge cardboard box (fridge box maybe?) and cut a door in it, complete with moon-shaped ventilation hole... kept the door propped open, and it had some kind of platform and she'd made some fake legs which were dangling out. it made quite a hit. of course, said chickie did have a LTR-type boyfriend, so she didn't have to worry about not being able to dance or have guys hit on her, etc.

seen on drive to work this morning: Honk if you're doing your Kegels what type of "Honk if..." sticker will they think of next?!

my resume is floating around on about a dozen job search sites out there; i think that each & every every time I've gotten a call from a recruiter about it, it's been cause they saw it on monster. two such calls led to job interviews, and one of those interviews led towards my current job. from the job-seeker's point of view, monster.com

GUY ON ROOFTOP: "The sheriff is a nii.. "<<BELL CHIMES>> ".. !" CROWD: "What's that?" "What did he say?" GUY IN CROWD: "I think he said the sheriff is near!" CROWD: "Oh great!!" "Excellent!!" [repeat 4 or 5 times] (amazing, the comedic power of repetition...)

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The only difference between me and you is that I KNOW my candidate is an ass-hole. Hello Capitalist! i never have understood ambition to have highest post-count on site! where i come from, proof of spending 100s of hours on internet per year is borderline embarrasment, not source of pride. Thank you for allow misunderstander to post!

Hello Capitalist! i never have understood ambition to have highest post-count on site! where i come from, proof of spending 100s of hours on internet per year is borderline embarrasment, not source of pride. Thank you for allow misunderstander to post!

Hello Capitalist! i never have understood ambition to have highest post-count on site! where i come from, proof of spending 100s of hours on internet per year is borderline embarrasment, not source of pride. Thank you for allow misunderstander to post!

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