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Cubbies Doubleheader

So me and some friends have tickets for the Cubs game tomorrow. Well, today’s game just got rained out. So what are they going to do? Have a double header tomorrow, with Wood pitching the first and Prior pitching the second. Are our tickets valid for both? You better believe it. Oh man, I am …

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Mitch Hedberg – R.I.P.

So I was shocked to read just now that Mitch Hedberg died on March 30 at the age of 37. You can read the article via that link, or you can visit his website by clicking the image below. I was quite literally speechless. I can’t even express how sad that makes me. I just …

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Opening Day

Well, the Cubs begin the 2005 season in about an hour, and the Illini are competing for the national championship tonight. Oh man, life is good. The Cubs are starting Carlos Zembrano, the youngest opening day starter for them in almost 50 years, and they have question marks everywhere on the field. Yet I’ve never …

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And Yet more Bunnies

That house with the bunnies that I mentioned the other day, well I drove past there today, and not only are the bunnies still up, but there’s a fourth one that I never noticed before. It’s driving a carrot car. Wow. I am speechless.

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Top Ten Ipod Songs

So I’ve been going through my music library (8059 songs currently) in alphabetical order, and I thought it would be fun to do a random top ten thing again. One thing I have noticed from going through the library, though, is that I sure remember some bands being a lot better when I was younger. …

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Fame

So you may have thought “What?” in response to that In the Summer, In the City poem that I put up here a few days ago. So here’s a little further clarification, and further thoughts on the subject So I wrote that because I had had a conversation with a friend a few days ago …

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McGriddles

There is a McDonald’s commercial on TV that has one minor thing that not many people that I’ve talked to have noticed, but it drives me insane. A male and a female sit at a table. The male says “I can’t believe Sheryl (however you want to spell it) dumped me last night.” The female …

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Bunnies

There’s a house on my way to work that has had two huge pastel blow-up lit easter bunny lawn ornaments. That seems just a touch ridiculous (as well as totally hideous) to me. But then, I passed by there this morning and there’s a third bunny out there! This is no longer decoration, this is …

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In the Summer, In the City

Passing through the crowd on the road of life People all the same He asks “Why’d you stop here at this place?” I’m just trying to catch the game H e says “I’m off to find it all I’m off to make it pretty See my name in the bright lights In the summer, in …

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Email Addresses

I work with email all day long, so I see the strange, the bad, and the ugly. A few observations, while we’re on the subject. Why do people attempt to make some sort of statement with their email address? Seeing as I also work for a Christian company, I see a lot of addresses that …

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