I'm 7 and 3/4

Hot chocolate: check. Book and lunch bags: check. Sunglasses: check. Cheerful and sunny disposition: check. Ok, Dad, let's get wakin' to school!

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Priceless

Watching the US play Algeria in the World Cup while sitting in an Irish pub in Germany and eating fish & chips and drinking a Newcastle: $16.76













Seeing the English euphoria over their Slovenia win get crushed when they realize they may have to take on the US: priceless



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Where am I? Somewhere tasty...

I was told it was a 'quesadilla' but, it seemed more like a 'burrito'. Good and filling either way.

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"Oh! Capitalism!" or "Oh! Crap!"

Russian arms manufacturer, Concern Morinformsystem-Agat, has a new nifty toy they would love to build and sell to you if you are "another state and not [to] any sort of nonstate actor or terrorist group," says Robert Hewson, editor of the arms-industry journal "Jane's Air-Launched Weapons."

This new system, which could be built but appears to not be currently sitting on a shelf, the 'Club-K', fits nicely inside a shipping container. These shipping containers could be put on ordinary cargo ships, trains or pulled by a semi as shown in their video. (Go to about 2:30 to get to the interesting parts)

Why do I not feel any safer knowing that they would not sell them directly to terrorists?

(For the same reason that a lot of Russian hardware already ens up in places it shouldn't? Or because restrictive gun laws in several US states haven't stopped people from reselling to criminals? I guess Pakistan could always report that a Club-K system was stolen, right?)

Why do I not feel any safer knowing that the systems -- as currently specified -- requires a satellite for guidance?

(Since it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to 'upgrade' the system to use more 'self-guiding' missiles)

Why do I see so many Russian mob-types on '24' with 'Jack Bauer' and they always end up in an 'import/export' companies dock facilities loaded up with -- you guessed it -- shipping containers? Or maybe I should say, 'shipping containers'.

Yeah... how could this go wrong? I mean, US arms don't end up in the hands of terrorists (unless you count all the stuff US arms companies have sold over the years, or how the US has given, literally, TONS of weapons to the Iraqi army and police which then turn around and sell them to whoever), right?

I think I see the plotline of the next '24' (if this wasn't to be the last season) or the next action movie...

Illinois Warriors Summit, started by Robert Malnik. Helping Vets new and old.

http://www.illinoiswarriorsummit.com/

The Lion Park in South Africa

Went to the Lion Park. It was a bit cold and wet. Saw lots of lions. Played with the cubs.

I'l update this with more later, but I'm hungry now.

Enjoy the pix.

PS: I didn't originally say this but, if you click on the Lion Park image above, it takes you to the pix and video I took.

And if you look out your left window...

You can see the skyline of downtown Chicago.

No, really: it's in there...




This week Dallas and next week THE WORLD! Ahh MUUUHAHAHAHhahahahah!

Well, not really the WORLD... just Johannesburg.


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Man Flips Out In Business Class, Ruins TV For Everone Else

So this guy is sitting in Business Class from Chicago to D.C. and decides that the episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' he must have only partially watched is offensive and he's offended and wants Mr. United Airlines to personally apologize [I added the last part because other than his outrage I couldn't tell what he wanted them to do about it]. It was noisy but, he seemed to be ranting about a nine year old girl having a pussy with a rash and this guy was her 'friend' and now he had a rash. The show played on a similar misunderstanding as the girl in question had a pussyCAT with an itchy rash and she had met was texting Mr. David to the point of annoying him--just watch the episode.

Anyhow, thanks to this guy, they stopped playing the show.

I think that much of the comedy of that show is based on misunderstandings and that this event on the plane would be very funny to Mr. David himself, were he to hear about it. Maybe I can text him about it...


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You can take your 'fat free' sweet talk elsewhere

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Because I'm cheap...

fell in love with this idea.

Only, when you actually check out IKEA's website, they list it at $1.99 so now it's an even more awesome idea. They need to update the description to "Napkin holder for 50 napkins or a notebook computer."

I might get a third for use with our netbook.

Spring begins at 12:32pm GST-6

... In less than two hours...


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I can has caek?

Grafton, ND: Marketplace on 8th

Looks nice...




Okay... I guess I could eat here. Chicken Alfredo. I could have made better, and that's not saying much. Blackjack in the front and Bingo in the rear--no, really: that's not a joke.

I need to to get some yogurt to try to get this out of my system...

Well, two down (Hardees last night) and 5 more to go (within a 45 minute drive).

Next week will be so much fun since there won't be any surprises.

Thanks, Graham.

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St Patrick's Day Parade

We went downtown to see the parade. It was colder than we expected.

We missed seeing the actual boat dyeing the river green, but only just.






CPD Mounted Div. Nice looking horses.




We helped Dina pass out 250 green clover key chains.



It was cold, wet and foggy.



Mayor Dailey still going on about his budget...


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You know you're spoiled when...

You can go to Whole Foods, get a spinach & feta salmon burger (from the meat counter), a beef burger, a pile of pulled pork, a water, and a salad; drink a Guiness-like beer while you wait for it to be cooked (all for about $20); take the elevator upstairs to your apartment and eat & enjoy. No mess to clean up. It's fresh and hot.

I think we may need to re-learn how to cook when we move someday.

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Field Trip: Good Times!

No, really. We went to the Field Museum. I am so glad I'm teaching adults.

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Heart Update

Just saw the doc. He said that if i ever get an EKG done again tell them I have a 'baseline abnormal EKG' so as to avoid a misinterpretation. He also took me off the Metoprolol but kept me on the Tricor & aspirin. He says they still don't have a definitive answer for what happened or why it happened. And that's about it... It would be nice if we were a bit more like cars: easy[er] to diagnose & fix.


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Aeryn's Penguin Party at school

The Playbill

The Valentine Poem

The Emperor Play

Where mom parties until the egg 'conveniently' hatches and then comes back to take all the glory: there is justice in nature.

Aeryn enjoying a post-performance snack.

Penguin-shaped cookies and ice cream was in the rider on her contract.

We were able to talk her out of getting a trailer.

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Bangers n mash!

I will always find the local Irish pub. Even is it takes 10 years.

Looks nasty, tastes great (I can think of a couple of other things that applies to).

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What the monkey thinks...

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Mass Suffering in Haiti: crazy comments in 3..2..1..

Pat Robertson blames Haitian troubles on pact with devil. We've all heard crazy sh!te from this homegrown American religious extremist over the years, but I didn't think there was some kind of contest to 'out crazy' him.

Maybe Limbaugh's number are down or something -- I don't know. But what I do know is that instead of encouraging people to help -- in any way -- he'd rather create a conspiracy theory.

Wow.