Last night was surprisingly a lot of fun. As I mentioned briefly, I was going with my sister a tequila tasting party at our friendly neighborhood McMenamins, but since I don’t particularly care for nor do I have a lot of good experiences with that particular liquor, I wasn’t sure whether I’d enjoy myself [...]

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My car scouting trip went very well.
Car shopping is more of a game than anything else, with pressure from the salesman to buy something right then, and of course, they want to sell you what would give them the highest profit margin for the dealer. I don’t know if car salesmen are still on [...]

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My hair feels so much better after a haircut. The woman who cut my hair apparently is a oft-requested stylist, what what I overheard at the place I went, and so whether or not I was lucky for that I guess doesn’t matter, but she did a good job. She didn’t even use [...]

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I had some witty comment that I wanted to open with, but during the course of the day it, like so many other pieces of information, have escaped me. Oh yes, now I remember. Ironic, considering what it was. As I discovered this morning, no amount of caffeine to stimulate my brain [...]

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So I did some more browsing for cars last night, and I found some interesting models in the Portland area. Mind you, these are all from dealers and I haven’t been looking at private sellers, particularly since a private seller is more likely to expect the full amount of cash up front and not [...]

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Turns out my website was just hiding after all. My Mom had no Internet access all day yesterday, and so that’s why my site was unavailable until the evening when she got home and was able to reset it, not just for my bebefit but so that she coudl browse, too. Comcast has [...]

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As I write this, my website is currently down. My little diatribe about PGE and Comcast taking dwon my Internet connection in my apartment apparently played havoc on my Mom’s house where the computer holding my website is currently running, and so barring any problems with the machine itself, my Mom’s connection must have [...]

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I thought I’d take a moment and pimp my email provider to everyone who reads my blog, partially because I have had such good service with them over the years, and partially because I have a free account and I don’t want them to think that I don’t ever acknowledge that fact if they check [...]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Payday! I got handed my first paycheck today when I got in to work, and so I’m looking forward to depositing it in my checking account on my way home. It’s even a little higher than I expected, and so I can redo my monthly budget figures and figure out just [...]

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300 entries and still going strong. Yay me! I find that I have a lot more time and energy to write in my blog now that I have time at work in which I can take a break and not have anything to do. No distractions here, at least.
My dreams last night [...]

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I’m getting close to the 300-post mark. If you think about it, I’ve been writing now for four and a half years, and so 300 entries over that span of time really doesn’t sound like much, but if consider that for many of the months I was writing I would either post a single [...]

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I meant to post an update yesterday afternoon when I got back from work, but instead I went down to the fitness room and went for a three and a half mile jog. Normally that would take me close to 40 minutes, but I’ve decided to speed up my jog speed to 7 MPH, [...]

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I meant to write in my blog last night, but I was so, so tired and I couldn’t bring myself to do it. When I got home around 4:45 PM, I immediately changed into my exercise clothes, but I decided I was far too tired to go jogging, and that instead I’d put it [...]

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I’m on my lunch break from my new job right now–second day. I have a full 30 minutes left on lunch, so I have plenty of time to write. The last could of days have been a bit overwhealming, if you can believe that. Granted, new job, lots of absorb, you’d think [...]

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