In Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the early 1800s, wagon masters rolled and sold cheap, smelly cigars for the pioneers going West. The cigars were compared to the spokes on the Conestoga wagons, hence stogies.

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Friday, July 15

Pot 'o Gold

This guy picked through who-knows-how-many-boxes of Lucky Charms and sold a bag of the marshmallows on eBay for $102.50!

posted by Brad at 7/15/2005 03:43:00 PM | permalink | 3 comments

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• I REALLY don't know why we didn't sell the jelly belly bunny....it was an act of God not just a silly obsesssion! Mom

  By  Anonymous, at 7/15/2005 4:45 PM 

• I'm just curious if the ebay listing made any mention of him wearing gloves while "picking through" [gag] all those marshmallows. If not, I would be too worried about what else he was picking just before digging into the Lucky Charms.

  By  Unknown, at 7/15/2005 7:17 PM 

• Okay scratch that.....since you kindly provided the link, I went ahead and read the listing. Looks like this guy thought of everything.

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Lodi, home to Al Qaeda and a Poker Genius

A set of 4's is a decent poker hand, so for my 444th post I'd like to celebrate Lodi's own Aaron Kanter, who made the final table at the 2005 World Series of Poker.



He has already beaten 5,610 other players, and is chasing a $7.5 million dollar pot (with $1 million already guaranteed just for making the final table).

Sort of puts those $5 buy-in games I usually play in perspective...

UPDATE: Aaron came in 4th, worth a cool $2 million

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Thursday, July 14

Michael, Michael, Michael

Why oh why did you spend $10 of your hard earned money to mail me the old & busted Kenwood deck from your (my old) car?



It definitely brought a smile to my face, but I figured that sharing it with the world might help squeeze a bit more bang out of your bucks...

posted by Brad at 7/14/2005 10:06:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• Maybe he thought you could fix it???? Mom

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Wednesday, July 13

Goofer News

All you blog friendly Gophers out there probably already know that the Minnesota Daily has an RSS feed, but just in case...

I was getting ready to ask why they didn't have a farmer's market on campus when I was there, but then I realized that I ate like shit in college.

Also, what's with Presidents falling off their bikes?

posted by Brad at 7/13/2005 08:16:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

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• In the first 2 weeks of July, Pres fell off his bike and Alicia fell out of the showers. Since Alica's was alcohol related, can we guess Bob's cause is the same?

  By  Laura, at 7/14/2005 7:35 AM 

• I failed to post a link to the story about Dubya falling off his bike, I just assumed everyone had heard about that...

  By  Brad, at 7/14/2005 9:57 AM 

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Everything's A Sport

Just had lunch at Applebees (the Irresist-A-Bowls looked pricey & disappointing), and watched some dude become the 2005 National Heavyweight Arm Wrestling Champion.

Maybe the IOC could slide this "sport" in the 2012 games in lieu of baseball & softball...

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Post Op

Susan and Nurse Jan have been hanging around the house in recovery mode, we finally unwrapped her knee yesterday morning. We've been through about 75 pounds of ice and 22 Vicodin, but things are going pretty well so far...

posted by Brad at 7/13/2005 12:13:00 AM | permalink | 3 comments

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• Ohhhh...she looks crabby!!

  By  Unknown, at 7/13/2005 8:31 AM 

• I think she was moreso focused on taking the picture of Pekoe sleeping on her boob...

  By  Brad, at 7/13/2005 9:17 AM 

• Oh she took the picture herself?? I thought you took it. So the look was just one of concentration then.

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Tuesday, July 12

The iPod Flea!

I was just gonna linkblog this, but since Susan told me that she "doesn't read my linkblog," it's been promoted to a regular 'ol post...

Anyways, you may not be aware that Apple recently unveiled yet another new iPod - the Flea.

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Monday, July 11

48-38

It's worth noting that the Twins hit the All Star break with the same record that Boston had last year, and we all know how that turned out. Maybe winning the Central Division isn't all it's cracked up to be?

But just in case Gardy reads my blog, it should be noted that this isn't an invitation to slack off. The BoSox finished the season 50-26, so we've got our work cut out for us.

In the meantime, the home run derby starts in a half hour - I better run home.

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Sunday, July 10

Stupid CRV

After separating our cans, bottles and glass recyclables for nearly a year, I dragged them all down to the local redemption center and cashed out - for a whopping $12.45.

Pretty sure we're done with that, too bad we can't also be done paying the CRV...

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Saturday, July 9

Dog Tags

Lots of information is available about movies - aforementioned MediaMan downloads everything from when the film came out in theatres to Amazon.com reviews. IMDB is an incredible resource, but I haven't yet found anything that will tell me if there are the sounds of dog barking in the background at any point during the movie.

We're watching The Pianist right now, and Pekoe has twice almost busted his skull by jumping up from his spot under the table when he heard dogs barking. If movies were tagged as having dog barking in them, we could strap a hand towel to his head or something to pad the impact...

PS - I'm slightly ashamed that I fell asleep while watching Team America: World Police yesterday, damn that's a high-larious movie.

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Organize yer DVDs

I've been using MediaMan for a couple weeks now, and I'm lovin' it. It's great on the Tablet and allows us to store all our DVDs in binders so the living room isn't cluttered by a rack of DVD cases.

As of this morning, there are 93 titles in our collection.

posted by Brad at 7/09/2005 11:08:00 AM | permalink | 1 comments

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• That web page is just an export from the MediaMan program. The actual interface we use to view our collection looks like a virtual bookshelf.

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Friday, July 8

Susan's New ACL

We're back at home after Susan had her ACL replaced this morning. It's been over 4 months since she tore it skiing in Tahoe, and today we start a new road to recovery. She is doing really well so far and currently taking a little nap. 3 more hours before we get more Vicodon, so I'm going to try and get some work done.

In the meantime, check out my very first photoset on Flickr...

posted by Brad at 7/08/2005 05:12:00 PM | permalink | 3 comments

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• This was taken when she got the "happy gas"?????
  
  Hope all is going well. Mom

  By  Anonymous, at 7/08/2005 8:27 PM 

• I just looked at the flicker photoset.....Susan, how did Brad get those pictures? They creeped me out!Locki

  By  Anonymous, at 7/08/2005 8:32 PM 

• What a pretty knee! You guys take your camera everywhere which is good. I would have never thought to take the camera to the hospital for my surgery. It was good to see Susan's smiling face in the after photo. See you tomorrow. Jan

  By  Anonymous, at 7/08/2005 8:43 PM 

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Racine Blogs Update

Thanks to Liz for pointing out that the Journal Times is officially on board the RSS bandwagon.

My mom also hooked me up with Blogenlust, a political weblog authored by a childhood friend of mine. Too bad he recently ditched San Francisco in favor of New York, it's been a long time since I've talked to him...

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Thursday, July 7

Dear Sanford,

I love my Sharpie Mini, don't get me wrong. But why did you make the cap so easily detachable from the keyring connector? I need most of my fingers & toes to count the number of times the damn thing has severed itself from my keychain...



Love,
Brad

posted by Brad at 7/07/2005 01:33:00 AM | permalink | 1 comments

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• Hey Brad, the hearts of the Journal Times have not been hardened against your requests. I just found this.
  
  Rob on the Road in RSS? Insta-stupidity! (and yeah, I'm too lazy to search out your original post)
  
  -Liz

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Wednesday, July 6

Fireworks @ Lodi Lake

I remembered the tripod and snapped close to 150 pictures of last night's Ooh Aah fireworks at Lodi Lake, approximately 10 of which didn't suck.

 

You may have noticed that these images are hosted on Flickr, which I just started using last week. Not sure if I'll stick with putting photos up there or use Blogger Images or just keep leeching off the Bob Insurance server - as if you care anyways.

posted by Brad at 7/06/2005 12:30:00 AM | permalink | 2 comments

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• Whatever makes YOU happy, Brad.

  By  Nick, at 7/06/2005 10:36 AM 

• Well, that could be true.

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Say What?

Instead of putting away laundry or sleeping, I find myself in the kitchen chowing down leftover bean dip because I go on a 24 hour clear liquid diet tomorrow at noon. As if there isn't already enough wrong with me, I believe that I recently ruptured my tympanic membrane.

Good thing Susan isn't having ACL surgery on Friday and can take care of me. Oh wait.

posted by Brad at 7/06/2005 12:22:00 AM | permalink | 3 comments

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• Liquid diets = Fun

  By  Anonymous, at 7/06/2005 6:25 PM 

• I was looking at the ways to rupture the membrane. Which occured? Hard slap to the ear or fractured skull? Tell the story...

  By  Laura, at 7/08/2005 9:36 AM 

• I think I got too aggressive with a Q Tip earlier this week, so it may not have been a rupture after all. The problem seems to have taken care of itself, so hopefully I didn't do any serious damage...

  By  Brad, at 7/08/2005 10:27 PM 

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Monday, July 4

4th x 10,000

The Mazda is celebrated Independence Day by rolling over 40,000 miles.

Sorry, no pictures.

posted by Brad at 7/04/2005 03:46:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• Awww... that's cute. I just rolled over 225,000 recently. Road trip, anyone?

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Saturday, July 2

Tragic

I am now using one of those plastic day-of-the-week pill sorters :(

posted by Brad at 7/02/2005 02:32:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

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• Why tragic? I like them for my vitamins. Are you using it for meds or vits?

  By  Laura, at 7/08/2005 9:37 AM 

• I guess I just feel like those are for people who take lots of pills regularly, and I feel like I'm too young for that.
  
  I have a multivitamin, iron supplement and acne prescription in the sorter...

  By  Brad, at 7/08/2005 10:31 PM 

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Happy Saturday

I'm writing on the Tablet in bed this morning, too much work to get up and start the day just yet. Susan is sleeping next to me - I wish I had a camera nearby because her face is cute all smushed against the pillow.

I can't believe it's already Saturday - one would think the first week back to work after a long vacation would just drag on. We filled our evenings with home cookin' (including a fire on the stove), 2 trips to the gym, and a long walk with Pekoe to try McDonalds Strawberry Cheesecake McFlurry (thumbs down).

We ditched Blockbuster Online in favor of Netflix last week - I'm excited for the RSS support, but will admittedly miss the 2 free in-store rentals a month. Isn't there some feature that allows me to stalk other Netflixers Queues?

I watched Hitch on Wednesday night (Susan slept as she watched in MN), it had a few moments but I didn't exactly weep when I put it back in the mail. You know, instead of me telling you what movies we get, just subscribe to our Rental History RSS feed!

posted by Brad at 7/02/2005 10:41:00 AM | permalink | 2 comments

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• So, is the stove fire the reason for the new countertops?

  By  Anonymous, at 7/03/2005 10:16 AM 

• No, that only affected the stove... We have needed new countertops since we moved in.

  By  Anonymous, at 7/04/2005 3:00 PM 

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