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Entries from July 2004

Goodbye Lion, Hello Cheetah

July 31st, 2004 · Comments Off

Got my car back yesterday, all nice and shiny and new-like, with the hail damage repaired. Looks like the body shop did a good job, thankfully. I had one issue with the molding around the windshield, which they are going to replace next week. And there seems to be some sort of [...]

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Tags: Personal

It’s Going To Be A Long Three Months

July 29th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Eh, long bad day at work today. Crises after crises. Ah, but it’s good to be employed.
So last night, the phone kept ringing every ten minutes or so, and the Caller ID said “Out of Area”. I don’t usually answer those calls, since they invariably turn out to be telemarketers (even in [...]

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Tags: Personal

Too True Headline of the Day

July 28th, 2004 · Comments Off

Eating Disorder May Humanize Mary-Kate
Cuz, y’know, she’s like such a robot.
Latre.

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Tags: General

Funnies Will Tear Us Apart, Again

July 26th, 2004 · 8 Comments

This morning while eating breakfast, I come to find out that the comic strip Go Fish (a one-panel strip about a psychiatrist and his family drawn by the Fusco Brothers guy and which is not particularly funny) has been replaced in the Rocky Mountain News by a strip called Prickly City. After reading today’s [...]

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Tags: Comic Books & Strips

Flasshe vs. The Wasps & Will vs. The Robots

July 20th, 2004 · Comments Off

Right now it is somewhat painful to type, as half of my right hand is swollen up like a reality show contestant engorged on his 15 minutes of pseudo-fame. For the first time since I was a young child (still living in Illinois, I believe), I’ve actually been stung by an insect. Not [...]

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Tags: Movies · Personal

The Cult of Big Burritos

July 17th, 2004 · 4 Comments

I’m going to violate my own rules again and describe a dream I had last night. Many of my co-workers are hooked on Denver’s own Chipotle, and they eat there once or twice a week even though the closest one to the office is some miles away. I don’t usually go with, though [...]

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Tags: Personal