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so all the snow we had last weekend melted by sunday. it hit 20 degrees over the weekend and that got rid of everything.
had a decent week weather wise this week. it warmed up to 15 degrees on thursday, so that was pretty nice. then it started snowing again yesterday (friday) morning. [...]

james told me today i should try and channel my rage at the p.o.s. takeuchi into a more productive thing, ie. a haiku about the damn machine.  here goes:
TL140 (read as Tee El One Forty)
More Takeuchi garbage
Not worthy of me.

what i like about the takeuchi tl140: absolutely nothing
what i hate about the takeuchi tl140: fucking everything
i’ve been sitting in this machine for the last couple days, and had gotten used to it. almost even thought it was a decent machine. until today when i was in a case 90xt (my [...]

well, it’s been a lazy day…. it started raining pretty good on thursday and i haven’t worked since b/c it’s been so wet, so that kind of sucks.  i’ve been back at work for 3 weeks, but only have one full week in so far b/c of the weather.  the first week i worked we [...]

i’d like to introduce every one to the newest member of the de Ruiter family.  my new tv bought this bad boy today.  hopefully it lasts me a while.  hopefully i don’t come to regret this…  :)  i had this one all picked out and was ready to walk out, and then [...]

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Slow Turning
By John Hiatt
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well, i just got off the phone with a director from a school in korea.  it pretty much boiled down to him asking if i had teaching experience, if i didn’t mind teaching little kids, and that was it.  i asked him [...]

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Swagger
By Flogging Molly
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well, it’s been a long ass time.  so here goes.  i think i’m in love.  her name’s rorvik or something like that, and she’s on the norwegian curling team.  what a little hottie.  now i just gotta get out there, and let her [...]

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Hypnotize
By System of a Down
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well, i said i’d write more later, so here goes.
the xmas party was pretty good.  only 6 free drinks which sucked, but oh well.  got a wilco t-shirt and some work gloves, which i left at the bar in the rush [...]

well, tonight’s the night for the wilco christmas party.  here’s hoping it’s as much fun as last year’s was, without the 3 days of hangovers.
write more later.  gotta get ready to go.

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Hypnotize
By System of a Down
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well, it looks like winter is finally starting to come in.  it snowed over the weekend.  hit a high of -3 today.  supposed to get snow tomorrow, and a high of -13.  and i’m still working outside in it.  yippee.
not much [...]