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...but isn't this interesting?

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Why does everything close so early here? When I lived in Cookeville, Tennessee, I could go shopping 24/7/365 thanks to the Super Walmart. And I could buy beer at all kinds of crazy hours because they sell it at every gas station and convenience store. Cookeville, by the way, is a small town in the middle of nowhere. Now I live in a major metro area just outside the nation's capitol and I can't buy shit after 9pm and even 6pm on Sundays. Did someone move the Bible Belt when I wasn't looking?  read more »

I've spent a lot of time trying to come up with a way to convey some recent thoughts and feelings through a nebulous post here, but no luck. And why would the post be necessarily nebulous you might ask? Maybe it's because 90% of this list sounds uncannily familiar. In fact, from this day forward and for reasons that should be obvious, this whole situation will be referred to as "that of which we do not speak" when it is necessary to make reference to it, which is hopefully never again.

My dog, Bodie, jumped up on my bed this morning and I was too half-asleep and tired to push him off. He got all stretched out right next to me and nuzzled up to my neck with his rib cage pressed up against mine. He can be really cute that way. But then I noticed something strange: he was synchronizing his breathing with mine. I wasn't sure at first, so I started holding my breath or breathing a little faster now and then. Sure enough, he would adjust his breathing to match mine!  read more »

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent"

- Herbert Schiller

I don't normally do this, but I feel some resolutions are in order for 2006. Here are ten of mine in no particular order:

1. Take Bodie on at least a one mile walk every day

2. Learn to play & sing a new song every week, from beginning to end

3. Stop biting my f%*king fingernails

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