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New Egypt

Back when I was living in Pembina Hall, I lived with several Egyptians and they spoke of their home with pride in their people, but not in their leaders. I’m happy for them today. I wonder if they were in the square.

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1000 logged kilometers

They say that the gift of 1000 paper cranes is supposed to grant the folder a wish, or to grant long life or recovery to the recipient. If, to do well, folding a crane would take me 4’45″, then I would have now put in the same amount of time to fold all those cranes [...]

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• Well, we were at the top of the stadium, couldn't be further from the field. But we were high enough to almost reach out and touch the Snowbirds and CF18s when they blew by, the later on full burners. Part A of Grey Cup bucket list item done. #
• Spammers must think us bloggers are real dim lights when they start signing off their spam with "Sent from my iPad 4G". Really... they must be in a real strong area of the RDF. #
• Well, this update went much smoother than the other WP updates that I have done. At one point I was looking at running both this site and the blog site from within the same WP, but I don't think that would work. It will be too much of a hassle for me to figure out how to ensure it works and to get everything moved over properly. I might very well try on my test domain, but for now, I'll be keeping that which isn't broken, running as is. #
• ... How my baby is like the Nexus One - Both reasonably new models, but with new revs coming every day, it seems impossible to keep up. Neither are really built to sleep, they want to interact all the time, both are small and peppy and take very little to recharge. Both have alarms that you may or may not be able to set to when you would like them to really go off. ... #
• Well, 14 gold medals, thank you "own the podium" for giving up on your team on your own turf. The world counts gold medals, not total medals why don't we? Congrats Olympic team Canada for showing up the pencil pushers. #