motorfirebox

I swear, if anyone within a twenty-block radius of my person finds themselves in some sort of trouble, they will inevitably manage to bump into me. I'm not complaining--it's just weird. Tonight, as I was taking out the trash, this kid (I thought she was a kid, anyway, turns out she's in college) pokes her head out from behind my van and says "Um, excuse...
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Creamy tomato bisque with shredded chicken and kielbasa tonight. Is it still considered a bisque if you don't puree everything? The base is a bisque, anyway.

Sauteed a sliced onion and a few chopped cloves of garlic in olive oil and a pat of butter. Added a can of diced tomatoes, chopped up a few stalks of celery and two carrots, added four cups of...
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I had a dream last night, and I think part of the dream was that it was an awesome dream.

The basic gist, stripped of all the other random stuff that happened in the dream (eg, stealing a boat and speeding down the river system which had apparently replaced the roads and highways so that I could get a haircut) was that me and The...
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I made a white pizza tonight. I usually do red, but I bought some sour cream for another recipe and I was looking for something different. I also didn't feel like going through the hassle of doing everything completely from scratch. So:

Thawed the last of the dough from a few days ago (it's easier to make in big batches and then refrigerate), rolled it...
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I did something I shouldn't have down. I browsed through the Pro-Israel group.

I like Israel. I want to see them succeed as a nation. I admire the can-do attitude and stoic perseverance with which Israel is infused. But I am not pro-Israel in the sense that members of this group seem to be--I leaven my admiration for Israel with an enforced ideal of neutrality,...
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Man, I feel seriously fantastic. For the past week and a half, i've been riding my exercise bike for about an hour a day. Where I normally feel clogged and lethargic, I'm a goddamn energizer bunny now. What's odd is, I worked out way more than this back when I was in the army, and I felt like shit all the time back then. Must...
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Just a quick placeholder note for a thought I'd like to explore later. The empowerment of the individual through technology is an interesting topic--it's frequently referred to as 'superempowerment'. One effect superempowerment has is to reduce the minimum number of members a community needs to be viable at its level of existence. For instance, a company of a type that may have previously required thousands...
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Wow. I think I may have found the secret to maintaining a daily exercise regimen: turn on the TV. Or, well, load up a movie into MPC, to be more accurate. I've always found it extremely hard to concentrate when there's video of any type playing in the vicinity; today, I swung my LCD around to face my exercise bike, dropped the first part of...
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My current thoughts on Bai Ling: not only is she hot, but you have to respect a woman who experiences shirt failure as frequently as she does. The lady has agile tits, it must be said.

Sigh. Went through my faves and removed a bunch of archived SGs. I left quite a few in there, though. Why do so many of the coolest ones go grey?

It has currently been 17 hours since the last post in CE. A Christmas miracle!

edit: Christmas miracle over, as of three minutes after I posted this.

Jesus. Started raiding yesterday at 6 server, didn't stop until 3 (that's 9pm and 6am EST, respectively). I got NINE UPGRADES out of it: neck, shoulders, legs (twice), weapon, shield, ring, cloak, boots. hilariously, i'd had epic boots crafted the day before yesterday, and an epic cloak crafted just before raid yesterday. Both vendor trash now.

It's good to be the only holy pally in...
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