Event: Thank. You.
CBS News: GM to Build $370M Plant in Flint, Michigan. Factory Will Make 4-Cylinder Engines for Chevrolet Volt.
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Galvane 4, 31.
– PLACE OF THE WEEK –
Egypt.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is the coolest term you know representing something that you don’t understand?
Event: Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis.
“I could sure use a $700 billion government bailout.”
– My Wife
“I could sure use a $700 billion government bailout.”
– My Wife
This is possibly going to go down as one of the most momentous and ground-shifting months of this century, with economic shifts taking on the gravity and Laws-of-Physics-momentum of wars, plagues, and unexpected turns of the weather.
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Galvane 3, 31.
– LINKS OF THE WEEK –
I should have linked these awhile ago:
Hullabaloo (Digby).
The Huffington Post.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
A couple weeks ago we had a hurricane, the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP, and several other prominent events in a single week.
Body: The Deep Swimming Pools.
Nemo 33 is, as far as I know, the deepest swimming pool in the world. It includes several caves and an a 115 foot dive site.
I had a dream, back when I was eight or nine, that was a sort of horror-movie sequel to an earlier dream, in which the Largest Storm Ever arrived to destroy the Earth.
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Event: Illinois Voter Registration Ends October 7th.
Cook County Clerks Office | Election News: Two weeks until end of voter registration Oct. 7 registration deadline looming.
Don’t think that this state doesn’t matter. There are important races along the whole length of the ticket!
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Diary: Gus Coyne, the Fish; May He Rest In Peace.
Sometime during the day yesterday our Apache Cichlid, Gus, died.
We had seen this coming for a couple days; for over a week his tail’s been getting thinner and thinner and her rarely emerged from his log, even to eat.
In the last few days we transferred him to a separate bowl where he might not be harrassed by those frantic tetras, and we poured in some fishy medicine, and put in the ceramic shark so he’d have a place to hide.
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Galvane 2, 31.
– See next post.
– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
An Apache Cichlid.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
When was the last time a pet of yours died? What did you do to cheer yourself up?
Diary: September 1999.
Diary: September 1999.
This was also one for the books, but I’m going to self-censor some of the gorier parts.
After the Black Box Underground performance of The Skriker wrapped up, all that was left were tatters of the summer, misgivings about my attempted relationship with AS, and a general ghosty feeling about being stuck in A, not B.
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Event: The League of Women Voters.
The League of Women Voters is one of the best sources of information about a candidate. It is a nonpartisan group that submits a series of issues questions to candidates along the length of the ticket and allows them to provide a concise response.
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