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    NIU Shooting

    NIU Shooting leaves 6 dead; story still developing My brother has several friends/coworkers who go to NIU, I hope they're OK. They found references to the VT shooting there in a couple of places too.
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    NFL Week 14

    It started Thursday, though most couldn't see it (the NFL Network rant is almost too easy), and they should be glad they didn't. The Bears-Redskins game was simulcast locally here, and it was awful to watch, one of the worst games I've ever seen. Not only are the Bears flatlining right now...
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    This is not my year

    Thursday night into Friday morning, a swollen pimple got so bad and far up my face I resembled Quasimodo, even puffy above my eye. A visit to the ER and 4 days in the hospital on IV antibiotics (again!) and I'm out. Just got out of there 2 months ago, this better not be a trend... Sorry I...
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    Bad Cat

    Oh, what a week... (note: not for the very squeamish) I'm sorta in the midst of at least 11 straight days off of work, from last Friday through Memorial Day. Started good, as Friday our new dishwasher and oven/range were delivered, but the washer couldn't be hooked up because the water valve...
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    I now hate the post office...

    ...cause they deliver me cruel mail. I already scheduled the week of April 23-27 off for my annual spring cleaning, and yesterday in the mail I got a jury summons for the 23rd. Whee. As if I needed another reason not to get excited about that week.
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    I have bad gas

    Yeah, my gas really stinks... the gas company, Nicor, that is. We paid the bill ahead awhile ago and I guess kinda forgot about it. Anyways, we didn't get any urgent bills from them and one day we found a disconnect warning in our bushes with a different address on it (9881, our house is 9802)...
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    Workplace injustice

    My mom's been temp working since last year, as many of you know. She had been at HSBC (where she won the Macsimizer) for 9 months now doing credit analysis, and today, in the middle of the day, they let her go. She had been expecting it as all of the other temps had been either hired or let go...
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    Rallye fun

    My gimmick road rallye is coming up with a college football theme, and I have a checkpoint planned with someone as USC RB Reggie Bush and someone else as George Bush. Now, what should I make the rallyists do to dubya, the possibilities are endless...
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    If I came back with new news, i'd actually have a life...

    Very little new with me. Just everyone else in the family that's changing. I'm the only one in the immediate family to have their current job over a year: my brother quit Sears when they stopped paying commission and is now at Home Depot, my mother's still doing temp work, and my dad got axed...
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    Too bad the name Toolbox is already taken...

    My mother won a raffle at her new office, with the prize being a Macsimizer toolbox from Mac Tools. I can't wait to get it home, it's wider than 2 vending machines and each shelf has a 250 lb capacity. It retails for $7500, BTW. Now I need to go on a tool buying spree. :cool: The one I'm...
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    *cough cough cough*

    I'm out of breath. Anyone know how to catch their wind back quickly? Anyways, I'm out of breath because I chased a couple of shoplifters through the neighborhood. I didn't dare try to stop them as there were two of them and they did say they had a weapon (although I doubt they did), but...
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    Memorable Christmas

    My 83 year old grandmother had a blast last night as we celebrate every year on Christmas Eve. She always gets 4 times as many presents as anyone else there, but we all love it. Her top present was a dinner and a show with her 3 daughters in a couple of weeks, but now that's an impossibilty...
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    Football

    This Bears season has been a fun one for sure so far... Starts out at the beginning of the year and everyone's picking the Vikes to win it easy. They go out and get themselves shipwrecked ;) and it falls to us. The Packers look absolutely pathetic and I coudn't be happier about that (how...
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    Halloween decorations

    The ones across the street are now operational, complete with strobe lights. I had enough trouble getting to sleep before, this is gonna drive me nuts... 14 straight nights of it? At least I won't need a costume, I WILL be a zombie for Halloween.
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    My mom's quitting

    My mom is finally quitting her job, tomorrow is her last day. She had to, the last 2 years have been hell, she's been close to tears almost every time she went into the office (she's been working from home only going in to swap the paperwork) as the workload has been piling up fast since all...
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    I'm a sadist

    and part genius, according to the Chicago Tribune. :D A reporter ran my road rallye last month (but didn't mention my name, though I was the rallyemaster) and wrote an article about it that appeared just a couple of days before our club's Harry Potter rallye. He actually won the First Beginner...
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    Smelly Cat

    I never had to give my first cat a bath, she was very dainty and lazy. Of course, my new cat has to be the exact opposite. He managed to find a hole in the basement window and got out last night. He's gotten out before, and got caught, and he's broken the barricades we've set up there too...
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    Greg Maddux

    Just an FYI, he's likely to hit the 3000 strikeout mark Tuesday night on WGN (6 PM Eastern), he's sitting at 2998 right now. A little trivia: after he hits 3000 Ks, he'll be only the second pitcher to have more than 3000 strikeouts, 300 wins and fewer than 1000 walks. Who is the other pitcher...
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    Results are back today...

    ...benign! Just two calcium buildups in her right breast, not cancerous. All that worry for nothing. No chemo for my mother, I don't know if she could've handled another round of that again. Thankfully it's not an issue anymore and we're through with the hospitals for now! :)
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    Trivia #22

    I lost many of my questions in the cleanup so it's gonna be pretty scarce for a while. I still got some left. 1. What city houses the world's oldest existing zoo? 2. What famous artistic pair ran a factory to make and sell their own prints, at ten cents each? 3. Which Roman Emperor...
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