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Let it be known that today has officially been declared International Grover Appreciation Day!
I hope we all recognize the importance of this great occasion.

shmily

On a blog that looks a little like mine (though the focus is quite different) there's a great rant about conspiracy theories. Check it out.

Who could have supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and polluted state?
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And now behold, my brethren, what natural man is there that knoweth these things? I say unto you, there is none that knoweth these things, save it be the penitent.

A hammock!

And here I am sitting in my new hammock, surfing the web on my new netbook.

Life is good.

A Mugen Pop Pop. Basically it's electronic fake bubble wrap to pop. Mine's pink.

Yes, really.

Here's the product page from Bandai. Here's a review.

On day 11 I was presented with a handmade card/booklet that my wife and youngest daughter put together. Also in the envelope was a photo of my daughter that I could put in my cube at work. It was all very cute.

We went to see Star Trek. It was great!

On day 9 I got a present for myself. Fedex showed up with my new Dell netbook. I got a Vostro a90n with 1GB RAM and a 16GB SSD. It runs Ubuntu Netbook Remix (I installed the new 9.04 version). (If the preceding two sentences sounded like jibberish, don't worry. It's a tiny notebook computer that runs Linux and starts up really fast). It was a great deal when I bought it and I'm really enjoying it.

Happy birthday to me!

On day 8 my wife and youngest daughter showed up shortly after lunch with a balloon attached to a pizza box. Inside the box was a pizza sized cookie with cream cheese icing and fresh fruit slices arranged on top.