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Friday, February 25, 2005
Oh yeah. In the game Clan Lord, my character Humbaba finally passed the 5th circle fighter test. /yell BEEER!
Last night I took my iPod Shuffle back to the Apple Store, and it turned out that not only did they have 2nd generation 4Gb iPod Minis in stock, but they'd also give me the higher ed discount there, so for $180 I bought a blue iPod mini. Woo! I really like it. Happy Birthday To Me, a month and a half early. I've decided to re-rip B and my entire CD collection at 192k MP3, after much discussion with my friends and some testing. Personally, I couldn't hear a difference between 128k mp3, 192k mp3, 320k mp3, Apple Lossless, 128k AAC, and 192k AAC on either of my two test tracks, but I'm no audiophile, and I probably need better headphones and a classical track to test. I couldn't find any reason to rip to AAC vs MP3. Thursday, February 24, 2005
I took the kids to the library last night. They were closed on Monday for the holiday, and they were taking advantage of the holiday to upgrade the library's backend computer systems. It was supposed to be done by Weds at 10am, but as this morning, they're almost a full 24 hours behind that schedule. Those poor bastards, I hope they're getting at least some sleep. I can only imagine what a nightmare upgrading a system that large must be. "Um, you know how we estimated it would take 26 hours to copy the database over? Well... that was a tad optimistic... It's looking like closer to 260 hours." Just kill me now. Eh, better them than me. Checking out books was a torturous manual affair, I wouldn't have done it except once the kids have their hands on new library books they wouldn't have taken the disappointment well. Isabel got a book on dinosaurs, and Harry got one on great white sharks. "SHARK Daddy! SHARK!!" B's suggestion for how to deal with the flashing-sunlight-through-the-trees deal was to ride one-handed and use the other to block the sun. What do you know, it's a bit awkward, but it worked. It's nice to be married to someone smart and beautiful. Wednesday, February 23, 2005
B took Isabel to the dentist yesterday to look at her teeth after she fell on them a few weeks ago, and the dentist confirmed that her right front tooth is indeed dead. She's going to need a mini root canal, they'll numb her, drill into the root, fill it with something, and that'll be it until it falls out in 2-3 years. Apparently she was a real trooper for the dentist, which makes me proud. As good as she was, I still don't see how they can do this procedure with just a local anesthetic... Man, now that the iPod landscape has changed again, I'm pretty sure a 4Gb 2nd gen mini is what I want, at $180 (.edu price) it's only $80 more than my Shuffle, with 8x as much space, a screen, 50% more battery life... Of course, I hate picking colors. I'm tending towards blue. Too bad they don't have a royal purple. Puuuurple.... Monday, February 21, 2005
I wanted to find some replacement pegs for our coat rack since several of them are broken now. I tried doing a google search for "replacement pegs" and "coat rack replacement pegs" to no avail, then typed in "woodworking store" to search one of those. While I found a few (none with what I was looking for), one of the Google sponsored links was for "Meet Woodworking Singles". You've just got to be freakin' kidding me. Last night we went over to B's sister's house for dinner. Bill and I retreated to the TV room to watch Arena Football, and lament that Seattle doesn't have a franchise. We'd both be up for season tickets, they're cheap. I loved how the last 30 seconds of the game, each snap involved "accidentally" throwing the ball into the stands to a fan. In Arena Football if you catch the ball you get to keep it. I also loved the final score, 69-71. Nothing like 140 points of offense. Bill picked Isabel up and lifted her over his head, but mis-judged the ceiling height and totally brained her on the roof by accident. D'oh! Smash! Poor little girl. Sunday, February 20, 2005
I showed the kids my iPod shuffle tonight. I put the lanyard around Isabel's neck, gave her an earbud in each hand, started it up, and told her to listen to them. She started snorting, giggling, then outright laughing. She then handed the earbuds back to me and said, "That is just TOOO funny." I haven't determined yet if it's music in general out of earbuds that makes her laugh, or Judas Priest's "You Got Another Think Comin' " in particular.
Fun fun night. One of my friend's wives turned 35, and he threw a party for her at Nectar Lounge, a newish nightclub over in the Fremont district. I'd never been before. They had reserved a big chunk of the balcony for us, starting at 6pm. B's mom was out of town in Portland this weekend, but fortunately her friend who used to live in our basement apartment agreed to babysit for us. They had catered food that was pretty tasty, and an open tab for drinks. I'd guess there were about 20 of us, and I bet the tab ended up being $800-$1000 or more. Uff. I had a few tasty Bridgeport IPAs, and a martini they call "Summer in Seattle" which was gin, grapefruit juice, and pomegranite juice. Damn good. After a while a bunch of us guys went to their outside patio to smoke some cigars and drink Oban single malt scotch. They had those outdoor propane heaters so it wasn't cold. Unfortunately, while we were out there the band starting playing, VERY loudly. When I went back inside I couldn't hear anything. Very annoying. The music was OK I guess, but I've always failed to see what the point was unless you're at a concert. I mean, I go to bars to talk to people, not listen to music while drinking alone. As a result, we were home by 10:30pm, but I was mostly in the bag anyway, so I was OK with it. Old folks, sigh. I felt pretty woogy this morning, a definite case of that "not so fresh" feeling, but got a hankering for a sausage omelette. I knew we had some leftover cooked sausage from the kids Boboli pizza dinner the night before, so I came down and made myself the first omelette I've cooked in probably 10 years. I did a great job on it, but I don't really like omelettes unless they're smothered in holledaise or something, I really prefer fried eggs. B wanted to "do something" this morning with the kids, it was sunny and cold again. I've never been to Seward Park in south Seattle before, but I've seen in on maps and been amazed. It's a big spit of land sticking into Lake Washington, all covered in trees with trails through it. We drove down there and loaded the kids up with the stroller. It's a 2.4 mile loop around the shoreline, and the kids walked probably half or more of it, and rode the rest. There is a playground for them at the end, they had a grand time like they always do. When we got back the phone rang, it was my brother Dan down the street. They were trying to track down an electrical problem with some of their upstairs outlets, they worked intermittantly. I knew that was a bad thing, intermittant shorts are great at causing house fires, so I helped them track it down. It turned out that one of the junction boxes in the attic was open and the wires exposed, and it totally was half-assed. I told them to solder those wires so they can't short anymore then slap some wirenuts over the ends so there isn't exposed wiring. Problem solved, I hope. It's nice being good at troubleshooting. Saturday, February 19, 2005
With the beautiful weather yesterday, B was outside in the back yard playing with the kids and had stuck a thawed chicken on the BBQ rotisserie, but then when she needed to adjust it and retie a loose string, she had turned off the gas, and forgot to turn it back on, so it sat and rotisserated cold for over an hour. D'oh! That sapped her will to cook for the night, so we tried to find a restaurant without too long a wait. Hard to do in Seattle at 6pm on a Friday night. I finally I figured we'd try the local bakery that has a cafe. They're great for breakfast and not bad for lunch, but it turns out they get very hoity toity at dinner time. The kids had a grand time eating chicken fingers and mashed potatoes, but B's pasta was ludicrously overherbed and my ribeye was tough. Way too expensive for a disappointing meal, but anything would fare poorly after the fabulous meal we had earlier this week. This morning B and I both woke up before the kids, and got a little time to lie in bed and talk. We both love to, but almost never get a chance to with kids. It was my turn to get up with them, so I went down and helped the kids get breakfast. Isabel choose cheerioes and honey nut cheerios mixed, Harry wanted both cheerioes plus some of "daddy's wheat cereal" aka mini shredded wheats. As we sat at the table eating our breakfast, I was looking out the window at the two large London Plane trees in my planting strip and thinking that it would be a good time to get together with my brother and prune out some of the branches, when into my field of vision appeared my brother with his ladder. I guess either great minds think alike or we're just nuts. I got the kids bundled up and we all went outside. The kids played frisbee while I gathered and cut up the branches that Dan was pruning. After a while the kids got bored and went in to watch TV instead. B had left for her jazzercise class, then afterwards we drove to meet up with her at Target to get Isabel some new ballet shoes. She wears size 10, and B bought her a 7-9 ballet slipper instead of the 10-13, thinking the larger one looked huge. Well, yeah, Isabel's feet are huge. The 10-13 is for kids 5-8 years, not 3.5 years. Isabel has been SO excited about starting ballet class. She's wanted to wear her new fuzzy pink leotard every day, but we haven't let her because she'd spill something on it. Today she finally got to dress up in that, new pink tights, and her new pink ballet slippers. Her grin went from ear to ear. We drove up to the dance studio, and she was a little nervous at first, but I figured she'd warm up. She does great at preschool, so I knew she'd be OK. After about five minutes I took my book next door to the Wedgewood Ale House for a tasty pint of Elesyian Dragon Tooth Stout. I got a half hour of reading and sipping stout in, and talked with the bartender and owner. When I mentioned that my daughter was next door at ballet lessons, they laughed and said they figured all sorts of dads would be in when the studio opened, but it turned out they got basically zero business from it. Eh, the other dad's loss. When I went back and peeked in the window, the change in Isabel was amazing. She had a huge smile and was chomping at the bit to go whenever they were lined up along one wall. She had a great time, did super, and loved it. We're super proud of her. Such a cutie. Friday, February 18, 2005
I caught up on the Fishpimp's blog last night, he only blogs a few times a month but it's pretty damn funny. It's one of those work blogs that seems like he'd be fired if they read it, until you realize that his workplace is a lawsuit waiting to happen anyway, and none of them would know a blog if it bit them in the ass. I'll be adding a link and revising my sidebar hopefully sometime today. I tell you, I'm not normally sensitive to flashing lights. I can play first person shooters without getting nauseous, strobe lights don't bother me a bit, and neither do oncoming headlights at night or hyperkinetic cartoons. However, for a few weeks every spring and fall the sun is just over the horizon when I bike into work. A 1-mile stretch of that ride is due south along the Burke-Gilman trail next to Montlake blvd. There is about a 15' strip between the bike trail and the road below that is filled with trees, some kind of decidous tree that splits up into a bunch of trunks. With no leaves on these trunks, the sun coming from exactly perpendicular to my path, as I bike along I get flash flash flash flash flash flash flash. It comes right into the side of my face, basically turning my vision red. Let's see. Say I'm doing 10mph. That's 52,800ft/hr, or 880 ft/min, or 15ft/sec. These trunks probably average about 6", with gaps of about equal size on average, to that means 15 flashes per second. It seriously makes me think I'm going to have a seizure or something. My vision is still a bit wonky half an hour later. Sunglasses don't help, since it comes in the side. They can actually make it worse. What I really need are glacier sunglasses with the leather glare shield on the side, or some kind of wrap-around sunglasses. What I did today was bend my helmet-mounted rear-view mirror up and around so if I angled my head just right it blocked the sun mostly. Helped a lot. Last night's poker was very funny, but strangely everyone just about broke even. I lost $6, but had the most bizarre experience with psycho naked 3-5-7. I kept getting amazing hands, wild cards out the ass, won $2.50 off Corey, then my AA2 lost to JJJ in the 3 round to corey for $5, then got five 6s in the 7 round but Thom honed me with 5 10s for $8.75, then finally won the $10 pot. Total won: $12.50. Total lost: $13.75 plus antes. Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Of course, after going to the library last night, I get email from them early this morning saying my latest reserved book is in. gah! The kids sure loving going, however. Bridget got Isabel signed up for a ballet class. It's on Saturdays from 1pm to 1:50pm. Fortunately for me, there is a bar right next door to the dance studio. Drop her off, get her situated, mosey next door, have a pint and read a book for a while, then pick her up. Doesn't sound too onerous to me. Heh. Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Man, B and I had one great dinner last night. We went to a McCormick and Schmicks seafood restaurant, the one where we had our wedding dinner and reception. We had red curry mussels for an appetizers, I had a seared ahi appetizer and catfish, B had a salad and a mixed grill of salmon and halibut with a berry cream sauce. Everything was freakin' awesome. Funny. Apple doesn't want you using your iPod shuffle to give music to people, but if you stick a Shuffle into a USB port, it fires up iTunes, then says that Shuffle is associated with another copy of iTunes, and asks if you want to reformat it and load it up with new songs from this iTunes. If, instead of answering that dialog box, you go to Terminal.app, cd into /Volumes/SHUFFLE_NAME/ITUNES/MUSIC, you can use cp to copy the mp3 files to your ~/Music/ folder and thence into iTunes. Slurp! Monday, February 14, 2005
Yesterday was fun. The brunch was dang tasty. Around 1pm, I went down to the store and bought 3 dozen roses, two dozen red and one dozen pink, and some candy. Gave Isabel the pink roses, B and her mom both got red, and everyone got their favorite candy, sweet tarts for the kids, peeps for B, and cherry cordials for Peggy. Poor Harry didn't understand why he didn't get roses too. How do you explain to a 2.5 yr old that boys don't get flowers? He did get candy. The turkey dinner was awesome. B made perfect turkey gravy again as well. Sunday, February 13, 2005
Today's the 8th anniversary of Bridget and I starting dating. The Feb 13 2003 blog entry details that story, so while I was going to write one up, I got lazy and just checked the archives. Heh, while it's true, it's totally not how I would have written it this year, I wish I'd written it up before delving into the archive. Would have been a funny compare and contrast. I love my iPod shuffle. I think I want to get a full iPod now, though. I need to at least wait until my birthday in April, but it's been a good long time since the last iPod update, so the 5th gen versions should be out sometime in the next few months, that might be worth waiting for. This morning we're going over to a Valentine's brunch at a friends house, the kids are very excited. Besides our dating anniversary it also happens to be B's mom's birthday, we bought her two area rugs for her apartment, and we're going to have yet another full-on turkey dinner with all the fixings. Crickey, we seem to have 3-4 of those a year these days. Not that I'm complaining, that's good eatin'. Saturday, February 12, 2005
Today B decided that "the girls" (Her, Isabel, and Grandma) were going to go shopping together. I know they needed Valentine's cards for Isabel's preschool, and I don't know what else. She figured I could take Harry shopping as well, so that's what we did, just me and my little Mr Guy. We went down to the U Villiage mall, went to Storables for some wall-mounted coat racks that I'd been wanting, wandered into the Apple store to compare iPod sizes. The 40gb is certainly thicker than the 20Gb. 3mm doesn't sound like much, but it makes it look a lot fatter. That Apple Store was freakin' packed, with 5-6 people cued up at all times at the checkstand, all the available employees busy with customers (maybe 8 employees on the floor) and lots of people wandering around pawing things. I couldn't find anyone to tell me if they had any Shuffles in stock. After that we went over to Barnes and Noble where I finally used the $20 gift card I got at Christmas to buy Alton Brown's latest cookbook, "I'm just here for more food". (This one is about baking). We also got a few $4 books for Harry and Isabel. Afterwards we went to Johnny Rockets for lunch. Harry had a blast, getting a strawberry milkshake, some onion rings (he pulls the onion out and eats just the breading...), french fries, and chicken tenders. I had a chocolate malt and a bacon burger with swiss. I love chocolate malts, nothing like taking a freakin' sweet dessert and adding yet more sugar. Mmmm malt. Then I broke down and went back to the Apple store and bought a 512Mb iPod Shuffle. I may still get an iPod for my birthday, or wait for the 5th gen ones, but in the meantime this should hold me for a while, and I may not end up needing a full iPod.
Last night at my friend's Winter Classic poker tourney, I did pretty terrible. After getting pralines and dick for cards, and they were all out of pralines, for most of the night, I took a stab right before the rebuy period ended with AQu, going all-in, and two people called. One with another AQu, one with KJc. Flop had a jack and a spade, turn had another spade, so a spade on the river and I'd have taken it, but it was a king. Sigh. Of course, I was accidently dealt in before rebuying on the next hand, having a A10s that I couldn't use, gah! Then after the break and with my rebuy, shortly afterwards I had A6s and there was a flop with A92, I made a stab at it, got called by someone with A9, and once again the turn gave me 4 spades, but the river was a club. I was second one out. Not particularly good play. One hand I played pretty well, lots of players saw the flop, checked around to me, I made a big bet, one caller. I had an ace but the board was no help. Turn, check to me, I make a big bet, she hems and haws, calls. River, I took her all-in, she hems and haws, finally calls. She had a pair, which won, but with someone betting agressively after her, and an overcard to her pair, I just don't see why she stayed in. Oh yeah, it was cuz she's a bad poker player. Oh well. Friday, February 11, 2005
Funny. I was messin' around with the kids while B and her mom were watching the news, and Isabel tells me, "Hey, Daddy, I can't see the commercial". Dang. What a phrase for a 3 yr old. Especially one who rarely sees ads, most of her TV is ad-free Disney channel, or via TiVo. Thursday, February 10, 2005
Ho! Too damn funny. B and the kids went shopping at Target today, and one of the post-Superbowl sale items was hilarious. It looks like a slightly-larger-than-regulation-sized football, but it has a 1.5qt crockpot inside. Perfect for my football dip (2 cans chili, 1 lb cubed velveeta, 12oz salsa) or artichoke dip, or hot wings, or lil smokies mini wieners. I don't think I'm going to be able to wait for MNF next year to start using it, I guess every excuse for a party needs FOOTBALL! Wooo! "Official party appliance." Oh, and by the air inflation hole it says "inflate to 1.5qts". 
Our Superbowl party was fun. Thom's 50" DLP HDTV was awesome, over 1000 square inches of hidef TV. I dang near crapped myself everytime I went into that room. Makes my 34" 3:4 HDTV look tiny, with slightly over 1/3rd the screen acreage. Thirteen adults and five kids.
On Monday night B got a really bad earache, and she stayed home in bed on Tues, so I stayed home to watch the kids. After breakfast they decided I would take them to the Zoo, and since the weather was nice I figured what the heck. It's very funny to herd three kids at the Zoo, getting amazed looks from moms with single babies. I felt like telling them that a single baby is often harder than three, once you get used to two it's easy after that. I played an hour of Clan Lord today at lunch. Humbaba slaughters (gets zero XP) everything he can find to fight except Large Sand Wurms, which he gets whatever the word is for partial XP. On the plus side, he can solo everything he can find... With nothing fun to kill, I can't imagine paying to play it anymore. I simply don't have 4-5 hours for major expeditions to fight the tough critters in groups. Oh well, they aren't making the game for me. I've been having fun taking the kids to the library every week. I put a couple of nautical fiction books on reserve online, beats paying $20 for them. They were waiting for me the next week. Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Funny, Delta Tao apparently reactivated all old accounts for the next two months. I played CL for the first time in a year and a half. Had a dickens of a time trying to remember my account password, finally had to take the Unix "strings" utility to an old CL_Prefs file to get it. Actually glad they store it in plaintext.
\yell BEER! Saturday, February 05, 2005
Wooo! My friend Thom was thinking he needed a PVR. Instead of just plopping down $199 on a TiVo, he figured he might as well get the dual-tuner HD offering from the cable company, and then figured he'd need a HDTV to go with it, and then figured as long as he was buying an HDTV he might as well buy a big one, so we went to the Costco Home Center (they have one in Seattle and one in Phoenix, it's a costco full of furniture) today and bought a $2300 Samsung 50" DLP HD TV. I remember being a bachelor...
The best part is we brought it straight to my house, so we'll have *two* HD TVs showing the Superbowl tomorrow for our Superbowl party. Wooo! We RULE!
Walking to work yesterday, it was drizzling rain and I passed yet another UW student in a cotton hoodie sweatshirt. Hoodie sweatshirts crack me up, I used to wear them in gradeschool, then nobody did, now they're popular again. I don't have any problem with them in general, but in specific, they're a poor choice for Seattle in the fall/winter/spring, because if it happens to rain you are basically wearing a sponge. I can hardly think of something worse to wear in rain.
Thursday night I won $13 at poker. I've been going through an epic losing streak, this is probably the first time I've won in two months. Last week I'd gone up $40 early only to end up even, so it was nice to end up in the black for once. B's mom is back with us, she's been spending time down in Olympia helping her sister who found out she has two aneurysms when she recently had an MRI. Apparently one is either right next to her optic nerve or retina, and thus inoperable. She's a bit stressed out, which only makes things worse. They just moved into a new house a few weeks ago, and she has a wonderful 14yr old daughter and a difficult austistic 10 yr old. How awful. I think they're recommending she wait 6 months and get another MRI then to see how things are, and if she gets a bad headache to get to the ER post-haste. The kids have been thrilled that their grandma is back, and so are we. She watched the kids last night after dinner so B and I could go out on a date. We thought about seeing a movie, but the only thing playing we were interested in was "The Aviator" and B was too tired to see a late 3hr movie. We had a hard time thinking of a good place to go, and ended up going to the bar at the restaurant where we had our wedding reception. It was fun, B had a whiskey sour and a huge slab of key lime pie, I had an Oban 14yr, a Guiness, and two pints of Manny's Pale Ale. We had a great time just talking about things. Today we're going to be buying half of a one-week timeshare in Cabo San Lucas. Our friends whos babies B watches and us are going in on it, they're the ones we went to Cabo with a year ago. Our plan is to roll over one week every other year so we can get two units again and go together every other year. It'll be nice to have something to force us to go on a fabulous warm vacation every other year. The kids sure loved it last time. Speaking of vacations, our tentative plan for this year involves the kids seeing both of their great grandmas. In July my family is supposed to be having a reunion somewhere in Colorado, so they'd get to see my grandma and grandpa, and in October we want to visit B's grandma in Brooklyn. If the NYC trip happens, you better believe I'm tracking down Mr Nosuch. I think I owe him a drink for nearly four years of blog hosting. We'd bring B's mom with us, so we'd hopefully be able to escape into town one night or two and have some adult fun. We'll have to think of fun things to do in NYC for a family with a 3 and 4 yr old. (Can you believe they're almost 3 and 4? I sure can't. Not babies at all anymore, they're 100% kids now...) Thursday, February 03, 2005
Last night after B left for her jazzercise class I loaded the kids and my motorola 5100 digital cable box into the van, drove to the Comcast office, and swapped it out for a new motorola 6412 two-tuner HD DVR box. Now I can record two channels at once, I can record in hi def, and instead of the nice TiVo interface I get a crappy interface. It works, but it isn't great.
For example, on my TiVo, I can get a "season pass". The TiVo records new episodes of a show, and all is good. On this thing, if I do a "series record", it has the option of "new & reruns" and "new". Great idea, but the channel guide info doesn't apparently tell it enough to discerne between new and rerun. Crickey. Also, the description field on TiVo includes the year. Very useful for quickly deciding that 2004 shows have to be re-runs, and seeing what year a particular movie was. The channel guide doesn't think that's important. Sigh. Still, for $5 a month I get a two-tuner HD DVR, so I'm going to be using my HDTV for more than football now. I haven't decided if I'm going to stick the TiVo in the bedroom or eBay it. Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Rough day yesterday for both B and Isabel. B was taking the three kids for a walk and Isabel was doing her typical run ahead then wait bit, when she tripped and landed on her palms and teeth. Both front teeth are chipped, and her palms are scraped up pretty good. I ended up going home at 1pm so B could take Isabel to a pediatric dentist at Children's Hospital, who said it's most likely fine. Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Man was dinner last night tasty. The local grocery store had 4lb whole chickens on sale for $0.59/lb, so we'd bought a pair of them, and B had stuck one on the rotisserie on the BBQ last night before leaving for her jazzercise class. That plus some wild rice made with chicken broth, a salad, and brocolli was really good. The kids couldn't stop shovelling down the rice. They eat salad like chips-n-dip, we give them some smallish leaves, they dip them in dressing and eat them that way. Harry doesn't have enough molars to really chew lettuce, but since he mostly swallows things whole it works out I suppose.
At my drinking club meeting last night, we consumed a very nice bottle of a lowland single malt whiskey, however, since it was a Scotch Malt Whiskey Society bottling, we don't get to find out exactly which distillery it is. Quite tasty, as was the Bunnehabhain I had with it. I also drank a bottle of St. Peters' Old Style Porter, a very nice British organic beer in the coolest flask-shaped bottle. It was bought for me as a reward for being the member with the best attendance last year, 11 of 12 meetings. The next best was a 3-way tie with 9 meetings attended. We had a ton of excess cash from sales so we decided to buy some Bradley Pharaceuticals, I love companies that make profits and have a P/E ratio under 12. We're also topping up some of our China portfolio. I decided I wasn't getting enough aerobic exercise, so now I'm trying to speed walk to work two days a week. It took 36 minutes to get to work today, which is a pretty good workout length, and I had my heart rate up to about 145-150, a good range. Doing that twice a week gives me 4 30+ minute workouts, plus riding my bike the other 3 days, which honestly isn't any real workout. If I'm going to continue to walk to work I'm going to need a better mp3 player, however. My old CD-based Rio Volt skips something fierce when I walk fast. Mmmmm, iPod! |
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