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The Toys R Us jingle was in my head this week.

On Wednesday, I went up to Brendee's for the weekly trivia session and unlike previous weeks, I played this one solo. With several normal compadres missing in action for one reason of another, I was taking a shot at typical winners "Bandito Incognito" -- a group of like 5-8 people that win each week...
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I really want to update ...

... but I really don't feel like writing something down.

I've had a pseudo case of writers block, perhaps from really doing a lot of stories this year. I'm planning a slew of features and such for the site this year, but haven't been able to come up with any meaningful updates, but now that I've started writing this,...
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Here's some pics from today out running around the market in Baku.

I've been busy as hell, but this was the first day me and some friends could get out and explore.

http://www.intermatwrestle.com/intl/worlds07/0922explore/index.htm

I'm ready to come home though.

So here the rundown
The summer has been increasingly kind to yours truly in the form of seeing new places and actually notching 37 states on my travels.

In June, I came back from the U.S. World Team Trials in Las Vegas and in July, made the annual wrestling pilgrimage to the Junior Nationals in Fargo, N.D.

I say this again Fargo is a great...
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I know some people are picky about their real names and such, but this is pretty big news for me.

So don't blow up my SG spot!

random_scribe gets some attention.... for writing.

I got a new phone today from work.

Now, I'm bored.



I think this is rather amusing.

There aren't too many sports I've never had the experience in watching first hand. As a sports writer at a daily newspaper for much of my working career, I've covered various wrestling, football, volleyball, soccer, field hockey, basketball and hockey events, but June 2 was something new, something different and something strangely familiar.

The Shock & Awe Brawl pitted the Hex Offenders against the Barn...
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While this isn't a new realization -- my boss is a complete spineless suck-up of a wannabe politician.

It's a bitch trying to write, do something you believe in, only to have someone NOT want you to write something so they can take all the credit.

Or not want to annoy a faction that we're directly tied to by writing something somewhat unfavorable.

If you...
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I'm sitting here eating grapes and looked down into the bowl and there were two left, sitting next to each other and the part where they come off the "vine" are both pointing the same way.

So I guess grapes look like boobs? Hmm.