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In the fight over whether I go to Alabama to support FEMA or stay here, it ended up as a split decision. I will be staying locally for the moment, except for a few trips to kick off the various phases of clean up and reconstruction.

This does come as a bit of a relief since the initial 30 day commitment would have interfered with...
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It looks like I may be going out of town for a little while to assist in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This is the part of my job that is not neat. I will find out in the next day or two.

It is amazing how quickly something as simple as a lock can change someone's attitude.

My roommate has gotten in to the habit of using my tools and putting them away dirty, putting them away in different places or just not putting them away. When he decided to invite a bunch of his buddies over to rebuild thier bikes I grumbled but when I went...
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Yeah, I know . . . I don't post or update much anymore.

Some of you know that I don't actually own a computer. Sometimes I get to use an external line at my office, sometimes I borrow my roommates computer. Business travel has been keeping me out of the office . . . roommates expired account keeps us all off the net.

So, I...
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I am sun burned but content with the results from Saturday's drag racing event. The Dodge Stealth RT we were running managed to run the 1/4 mile in 11.51 seconds.

For those of you who don't know, that is fucking fast.

Tomorrow will be filled with twin-turbo fun. We are tossing the Stealth on a flatbed with a few cans of 113 octane and extra tires, heading to Pomona for 'Test and Tune', and meeting up with the guy from GT pro that built the beastie.

The goal is to launch it in to the 11's.

There will be pictures this time.

I love the smell...
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No more drinky . . .

Ug . . .

Last night I was tricked in to geekful bliss . . .

I got home from the office (after dark, as usual) and went for a quick run. Got back home and my roommate, just back from a week at his parents house, pulls out a box and says 'check out what I brought home'.

There was some Star Wars stuff . . . and...
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I can't help but feeling like a bit of a plague at the moment. Another friend/employee was diagnosed with advanced/aggressive leukemia yesterday and was transfered to City of Hope today.

Having lost many family and friends to cancer . . . and being a cancer survivor myself . . . I know what this means.

I do not know what is to become of her...
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Life without avocados would be a very sad thing