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Try to forget about the Gorlax
I think that every shot I've taken in the last 6 months or so has been in honor of Pvt. Matt Steenson. So is today's title.

Intrigue hit 125,000 on the 20th of February. Backtracking, I found out that I drive right about 20,000 miles per year. After an oil change and transmission flush today, hopefully she'll make the next 20 as easy as the last.
Doug made his decision. I'm proud of him.
Doug's experience brought up an interesting discussion with an interesting womun, about what amount of civil disobedience is justified in a society under the rule of law. Despite my revolutionary attitudes, I tend to side with the law in most instances. I like the existence of a police force. I think that a lot of flouting the law is juvenile rebellion that was fun when the consequences were minimal, but is counterproductive to the way that I want my life to go, not just because of fear of punishment, but because they are honest-to-God idiotic things to be doing. Drug use, for instance. The place I run into trouble is when people are actually being hurt by laws that are achieving the exact opposite of the goal that they are trying to get. Not just if it's easier to skirt the rules than abide, even by silly ones. Not if the program just isn't working very effectively overall. I'm requiring a failure in a specific case, along with a specific harm. An example is my Uncle Phil. He's in the hospital right now, and is not expected to be with us much longer. He worked for Rainbow Bread all his life and retired with a modest pension which he used to raise his kids, including a daughter with Down's Syndrome. Where this gets him is that while his income invalidates him for Medicaid, he still can't actually afford health insurance for himself. So, his options are:
- Cut off his daughter to keep more money
- Die painfully but cheaply instead of in a hospital
- Funny magic with the taxes
He's going with the third option, and I'm 100% fine with it. In this case, the goal of Medicaid is to let people who don't have enough money to pay for health insurance not die painfully. That goal is not being met, and is at the same time hurting either my uncle or his daughter. I think the same applies for Doug.
There I go justifying the Rev again.
I've decided that I'm moving domains off of GoDaddy, just as soon as I can find a competitive host who does not run their servers on a closed OS, and whose advertisements are not quite so sexually charged.
One instance where sexual advertisements are currently not bothering me is in the wonderful land of Triscuits. As mentioned before, Rachael Ray is the only womun capable of getting me to eat those little chunks of grass. She's also the inspiration for peach salsa on top of the triscuits. Even better. She's so hot.
Hertz, whose owners paid themselves almost $1.4 billion in dividends last year, will cut jobs primarily in the U.S., as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. The reductions will cost $9 million to $11 million in the first quarter, the Park Ridge, New Jersey-based company said today in a statement.
Great.
And we'll never see a city not marred by advertisements,
And we'll NEVER have a future not working for those companies,
And it's sure as shit not getting better so we might as well accept it now, oh.
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He also told me that while he was in this park with fruit trees (you know how the communists love their fruit trees in people's parks) there was a village idiot (that's the pc term, I think) who had a wheelbarrow and was collecting these apples or something. while my cousin was in the park the VI (the clever ambigous abbreviation) started throwing apples at him.
And that leads me to 2nd observation, that while a person can resonablely drink a fifth of scotch in not much time, it requires blacking out for 8-10 hrs and the shakes because you've succefully lowered your body temperture much like Buddhist monks can through meditation.
Hang on St. Christopher, we're bringing in a load
Good job Doug. Really nothing more that can be said on that one.
And Billy- what's up with the Rachel Ray-ness?
i ordered a bottle of midleton's very rare. only two bottles are available, i may have to get both.
just in case not everyone knows: matt gets on the airplane the 6th of april, and *probably* gets here in oklahoma the 8th.
prepare yourselves
-doug
i need to know when we lived together at quail ridge! i think it was like apr/may/jun of 05 through sep/oct of 05, but i need to know the specific months.
hurry hurry,
-doug
Doug, I think it was Mar 05- Oct 05. Thats what I always but down anyways.
- Gumby
...13 days and I'll be through...
you let 3 of them get through?
now go forth, bil1337, and destroy them. show them no mercy.
"when it begins, [they] will hear the sound of children screaming - as though from a great distance. a smoking orb of NOTHING will grow above [their] bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. as [you] slip through the widening maw in [your] new form, [they] will catch only a glimpse of [your] radiance before [they] are incinerated. then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down [your] face, [your] dark work will begin.
[you] will open one of [your] six mouths, and [you] will sing the song that ends the earth."
-p23570
-doug
p.s. did i mention that matt is home?
i shall not check for blog updates till matt or someone else has called me to check if i'm alive (for not posting immediately).
good day sir.
-doug
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