birthday wishes go out to katherine, who i’m pretty sure doesn’t really read my page, but in the event that she does, happy birthday, yo.

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i got dido tickets! 11th row. hopefully they’ll be good seats.

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i learned a few new games last night to try out for poker night. the two new games introduced were steal my heart and duck, duck, goose! both games were interesting, i think that i enjoy the heart stealing game more. i want to learn a few more games to vary the card night. we had quite a lot of people last night, so much so that 7 card games were not possible.

i think that i may have to start expanding the games to something that may span multi-decks or learn more card-sharing games. we’ll see.

today’s latest dilemma is: how to download stuff?

one of the things that i’m struggling with is that i have about 90 or so things that i want to download. each are about 300MB or so big. that’s a lot of stuff! at first i tagged all 90 things at once, but i don’t know if that’s the best way to go about it. so instead, i’m tagging things in groups so that i can at least get things little by little instead of all at once.

bandwidth is a terrible thing to waste.

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so it turns out that [url=http://www.wholefoods.com/products/meat_12-24-03.html]whole foods market[/url] sells all natural beef. this means that the cows are never fed animal by-products, they never sell downed cows, and they are free from growth hormones and antibiotics. so it would appear that buying beef from whole foods is a relatively safe way to eat beef.

mmmm.

i wonder how much more expensive it is.

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i have a newfound awe for [url=http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_1026.html]michelle branch[/url]. who knew she was so hot? i mean, i liked her music and all, but who knew she was hot? maybe it was because when her last album was out, she was still 18 or something that made it feel dirty. but now that she’s a whopping 20, it’s all ok to be attracted to her…right?

i’ve only seen her in pretty conservative attire and i always thought of her as a cute little girl, but she looks all grown up now in the latest issue of maxim.

damn…she’s still only 20. that’s young for maxim, isn’t it?

that’s right, bring it on. i think that today, more than ever, i need a healthy dose of the trimethylxanthine. sometimes you just need that little bit of a pick me up and today seems to be one of those days. trimethylxanthine, whose chemical formula is C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, is better known as caffeine.

today i learned that caffeine is also a mild diuretic. for those not jive with the medical lingo (myself included) that means it makes you pee more. i also learned that if something is labelled as “decaffeinated” that only means that there is less than 2.5% by volume of caffeine in the product. so decaffeinated does not equal caffeine free.

after being inspired from watching [url=http://www.bravotv.com/Celebrity_Poker_Showdown/]celebrity poker showdown[/url] i called in the troops last night to play some texas hold ’em. and man, let me just say that last night’s texas hold ’em was a lot more fun for me. my betting strategy has changed quite a bit and it was definitely a lot more exciting this time around. big bets all the way around.

there was some [url=http://www.track15.com]COMPLETELY[/url] [url=http://jimmy.ocliw.com]IRRESPONSIBLE[/url] [url=http://www.ocliw.com/blur/]BETTING[/url] going on last night, some of which resulted in good things and some resulted in very bad things.

what amazed me was that jimmy had amazingly incredible luck which resulted in him being the ultimate winner of all the money in the pot.

the new thing i learned today is that “cossie” is australian slang for a swimming costume…or a swim suit…or a bathing suit. this valuable bit of information from [url=http://www.miramis.org/larissa/]larissa[/url].

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these are pretty yummy. every thursday my office has this thing called “nosh thursdays”. during this thursday we get bagels and other such snacks….thus the whole apple-eating incident yesterday. but one of the snacks they had were these [url=http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=1277]rold gold pretzels[/url] and it was surprisingly good. part wheat, part honey, all pretzely goodness.

i think i may have to go grab a bag on the way home.