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tomato juice (you know, after a "skunk attack")

hair relaxer

Congratulations. A new car is always a big deal... Well, you've sure got that Ford loyalty and I've got tunnel vision (in your last link, the first thing I spotted was 2 GPs in the background....maybe that's "selective perception.") Enjoy and I hope your kid enjoys the space.

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Never have grown facial hair, though with the shadow problem, it would come in quite rapidly. I don't think it fits well with my clean-scrubbed coat and tie thing...my opinion.

Sinus pressure and nasal congestion...which then leads to a headache. I keep a stash of Ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) at my desk which proceeds to stomp it out in about 20 minutes.

I think an Aztek would be safe even in East Saint Louis, making your gate superfluous...

LaCrosse, Grand Prix (since you once wrote about one) or Impala. Those are all $ 2,000 + cars on the redemption allowance.

Happy birthday, Captainbooyah. Enjoy the Vancouver summer before the skies turn gray in a month or two....

I'm doing ok, ZL, considering I'm one who loves to complain.... Some photos of these addictive Portuguese custard treats about 1.5x the size of a silver dollar.... um pastel de nata (singular) auguns pasteis de nata (plural)

LOL. That's classic. I think I've worn jeans/shorts, a $6 tourist t-shirt and sandals every time I've gone. I'll be on the lookout for some overdressed people "on the make."

FYI - the person who amways (not deserving of a capital letter) you is called an "amrrhoid."

I can't exactly remember all the interactions from my principles and intermediate macroeconomics classes when it comes to balance of trade and balance of payments. This should prop us up a little bit or throw us a "left hook." I forgot. I know that last week, with every uptick of the Dow and drop in oil, the dollar strengthened against the Euro, the CDN and the British pound. Sometimes, it gets pretty complex and can make one's head spin.

LOL. Sh!t under a different name still smells the same.

Yes, a lot of fundy Bible study groups and Amway (or facsimiles thereof)....pick your poison. Seriously, you can spot those a mile away and stay away from those types.

Sim. Nao esquici. Brasileira (com Fernando de metal), Suisa, Versailles, Nicola...mais aqui nao temos os bolos de nata.

Really? There's a regular laptop brigade in these places nightly. Reg, you're making me feel like a dork.

I got bumped off a flight from Toronto to Rome and had to spend the night in Mississauga. It was night time, so I didn't see anything. I like the Woodbridge suburb. It's where all the Italians that decided to get larger and newer houses and left the 2 "Little Italys" (on College Street and on St. Clair West) moved to.

While I may hate the summertime cold coffee-based drinks or the $4 coffee drinks, I really like the coffeehouse environment - Starbucks, Peet's, Borders Cafe, B&N Cafe. I go there to write my to-do lists, write other crap, read the paper, think....for me, it's a cerebral environment that has a good atmosphere. And I get by on less than $2, ordering either hot tea or iced tea. Sometimes, the best coffee houses are of the "non-chain" variety. In Northern California, there is LaBou and Bella Bru (each has a few stores here and there). In the small town of Chico, there is a really cool one called "Bidwell Perk," taking its name from Bidwell Park, the 2nd largest city park after Central Park, except that this one sprawls into the foothills canyons, complete with deer, coyote and mountain lions. Do you spend much time in a cafe' or "coffeehouse?"

Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out. Just kidding. Have a safe trip and good luck in the new assignment.

We're not kidding, here. There is plenty of blame to go around. As far as the dress code goes, I don't know what to say. Someone could have informally given him some advice that this would create problems for him and it was up to him to "take it or leave it." At least he came to school wearing clothes. In the 90s, there was a college kid at Berkeley (where else?) that decided that the dress code was too confining for him, so he decided to go to school not wearing ANY clothes. The school ultimately acted and incorporated "anti-nudity" language into its by-laws, code of conduct or policies, and he had to stop. Incidentally, within the last year or so, he made the news, telling of the troubled life he's had since Berkeley that he ended by committing suicide. The nudity part was funny, but this part was not. As far as the harassment part, I've read that it was bilateral. The boys tormented him for dressing this way and he was reportedly overt in his flirting. If this is true, then neither party was correct. Lastly, this is the 2nd time in 30 or so years that Oxnard, CA, a nice and not ridiculously priced coastal location in Ventura Co, has been rocked by a teenage trauma. I will never forget as a teen reading in the Los Angeles Times that a young girl was walking past the HS or middle school playing field on her way home and a gang of boys decided to attack her. They did all kinds of weird things to her -- the bottom line is that her reproductive tract was severely damaged. I think the community insisted that these kids should be tried as adults. I think they were tried as adults. The same should happen here. While the perpetrator was probably uncomfortable, nothing justifies what he did. It was premeditated, IMO.

I knew you'd probably like Summerlin, given that you were coming from a nice part of south Orange Co. That residential high-rise just as 93/95 forks off to go toward Northern Nevada from Summerlin Parkway just kind of stands out...you know the one I'm talking about, right? Yes, the prices aren't too bad. Don't far-out Henderson and the newer developments around Boulder City have some nice housing options, too? Yeah, thank God you guys have Mt. Charleston in your backyard. On a real hot summer day, you might as well head up there and spend the whole DAY. (About the road up to Mt. Charleston, bad for your AC and coolant temp as you go up, and horrible on your brakes on the way down...my rental was showing some brake fade by the time I got down to the highway that takes back to LV). As for the 110 vs. 90-95 and humid, I'll take 90-95 and humid. At 105+, going outside feels like opening an oven and putting your head in. Downsides? For me, the downside is that there are a lot of skanky people that have migrated there. You don't see many of them where you live, but try sitting in some of the chain coffee shops "off-Strip" (near Trop. and Decatur, or Trop. and Buffalo) on a Saturday morning so you get some of the locals who live there. Not anyone I'd want to do coffee with. Very detailed and accurate report.

Great story, moltar. I went to my 20-year because I was back in California and it so happened that I was flying to Europe on vacation the next afternoon from LAX, so I came down to LA the day before. I did not go to my 10-year because I was living in Atlanta. Considering this was a Catholic high school, which supposedly means more of an investment in good morals and ethics, it was not at all enjoyable. I vowed not to go to another one. Many people were still posturing. The cliques still applied. That means I got to talk to my (not necessarily geeky) high-GPA, high-SAT friends. I had grown 6 inches in height, from 5'-4," and had a conservative looking haircut, so many people had no idea who I was. As far as looks went, most people had NOT changed. The girls looked more unchanged than the guys and few, if any, had chunked out. Most people did not live in L.A. or L.A. County any more; there were a lot of people up north of L.A. and many in Orange County ("behind the Orange Curtain," as we like to say). Less out-of-state representation than I thought: AZ, CO and WA, with 1 in the Midwest and another who was an ATL-based Delta pilot. Moltar, re. the bold, (1) that's a lot of deceased people as a percentage; yikes, we had 3, or so, out of 225, (2) does the lawyer like L.A. compared to South Florida?, and (3) are you in touch with the other Coloradoans or are they in other parts of the state? Also, I assume that, in DMILF, the D stands for divorced, no? Reunion stories are indeed interesting.