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My Dog is Driving Me Nuts!

I'm trying to work. Very complicated work at that. Syntaxy, layouty, problemy work and May just won't leave me alone. She is sitting by my chair and everytime I try to use the mouse and my elbow sticks a little off the desk, she starts licking me!! So I stop, pet her, tell her she's a good puppy and go back to work. More licking. I got up and gave her a treat and she went away for a while, but now she's back. I don't want to tie her up or scold her. She's not really doing anything wrong (from a dog's point of view).

Hmm … as I've been writing this, she's stopped licking me. I guess I ignored her into submission. She's now laying quietly by my feet.

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If You Popped Enough Popcorn, Could it Eventually Blow Your Roof Off?

So Matt and I were just watching Real Genius (see link below). And so you come to the end scene where all the popcorn fills that guys house and we start pointing out all of the unrealistic aspects of the scene and the movie.

Being as we are both nerdy engineer types, it led to the question above. I think we finally agreed that no, it would probably just spill out your windows, because they're probably the weakest points. We'd like to do some experiments though.

Thoughts? Comments?

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Farmers' Market Tooo Early

You know, the farmer’s market is great and all, but does it really need to start at 6:00 AM on a Saturday. You get up early all week, and on your one sleep in day, you gota wake up early again. My solution, start the Farmers market at noon. You wake up at 11:00, arrive at 12:00, eat at 1:00, days off to a good start and you’re well rested.

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Two Cool Things

#1 – There is someone on Trading Spaces Boys VS. Girls whose name is Theresa Fung-Cooey … Which means that if you say her two last names backwards, she's Theresa Cung-Fooey. I laughed for like three minutes straight.

Krylon (or maybe Crylon?) is now making a spray paint for plastic!!!! That is so great. It “bonds at the molecular level” so you can paint cheap plastic crap in colors you'd actually like to have around.

It's a beautiful world we live in!

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Strange Rumblings

Every once in a while (bi-weekly or so) we have a mini-earthquake in our apartment. Everything rumbles and shakes for a couple of seconds and then it's done. The first time I thought it was a fluke. Maybe even the second time.

Now I'm pretty sure that the quarry or mine or whatever you call it that's not too far from our apartment is the source of the mini-quakes. Maybe they're blasting stuff.

Well anyhow, I never wanted my life to be too stable.

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Snifffffle!

Yeesh! I've got such bad allergies. I haven't missed a single Allegra and yet I'm still sniffling and sneezing and rubbing my eyes.

Anyhow, *sniffle*, I'm busy working on a buncha stuff. I've been really getting into style sheets lately. I have used them on and off for years but now I think I've made great leaps in understanding them. I love learning things.

Err … What else? Queer eye was not that great last night. The guy was sorta boring, so that was kind of a disappointment. But the OC was pretty fun.