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Yesterday was supposed to be our last doctor’s appointment before the baby is born on the 14th.  We went, heard the heartbeat, confirmed a few things, talked about plans, and we were done – a little earlier than expected even.  David was home with my mom, so we could chat with the midwife about anything that came up and not be trying to wrangle him at the same time.  All finished, we got into my truck and headed to Halo Farms to get milk, and then head home.  We went the way I normally would, coming down Route 1 to the Warren St. exit, then head across the Trenton Makes Bridge (I’ve yet to pay a toll on the Route 1 bridge).  We were first in line at the light at Bridge Street, with someone on my left and a woman on a bike half in the street on my right; I remember this for two reasons, one being that I hoped she wouldn’t ride out in front of me but would get up onto the sidewalk instead, and second because I got to find out just how nice of a woman she is a few minutes later.  Light turned green, I started to move forward.. and the douchebag to my left started trying to race me.  He wanted to cut me off, because he wanted to be in my lane (because he didn’t want to turn left and get on Route 1, he wanted the bridge, and figured if he gunned it fast enough he could cut me off and not have to wait in line like I did.)  Whatever asshole, wait your turn.. that’s what I was thinking, until he started moving into my lane anyway.

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I’d intended to do another one of those Facebook notes, but I haven’t got to it yet.  I’m thinking of the soundtrack one mostly, that’ll be fun to put together.  No, tonight’s rambling is brought on by some photos I just looked at.  A friend posted photos she took from a wedding I attended, and I tagged a few other friends that I saw in the photos.  And one person I tried to tag, only he wasn’t in my friends list anymore.  I go looking around, and I can’t find him on Facebook anywhere.  There’s comments he’d left on another friends’ photos, so there’s proof that he was there before; but now he’s gone.  First a few months ago, I saw that Toni Kember disappeared off of Facebook, and other people that I know are friends of hers couldn’t find her there either.  Now Jon Lyon is gone too.  It’s a conspiracy!  They’re going to start charging us to remain friends with people!  Or we’ll have to pay a fee for every 10 friends after the initial 15!

Or Facebook should just send a notification to people to say “Hey, your friend deleted their account, so you know…”  Yeah, that’d be nice.  At least I’m assuming that’s what happened anyway – that, or I’ll need to cough up $10 if I ever want to see Jon alive again.

My wife used to run a home business selling jams and jellies, mostly at craft shows in and around where we lived.  It was a lot of fun.. well, she enjoyed the making of stuff, and I kinda enjoyed people watching at the shows themselves, we both hated setup & breakdown and the associated moving of crap from point A to B to C to B to A.  But anyway, with having a little boy running around the house, and a little girl on the way, there just isn’t time to keep up with it anymore.  So instead of throwing out all the canned stuff that’s sitting waiting to be sold, she’s offering it at these prices:

Available for $1 each
12 pints Green Tomato Pickles
5 pints Garlic Dill Pickle CHips
11 pints Cucumber Relish
4 pints Corn Relish
6 jars Peach Jam
4 jars Merlot Jelly
4 jars Carrot Cake Preserves
1 jar Blueberry-Raspberry Jam
2 jars Cabernet Jelly
1 jar Hot Pepper Jelly
2 jars Chardonnay Jelly
2 jars Ranier Rose Jelly
4 jars Seedless Raspberry Jam
4 jars Kiwi Jam
4 jars Blueberry Jam
6 jars Blackberry Jam
2 jars Pumpkin Pecan Butter
1 jar Moscato Jelly
6 jars Island Topping
2 jars Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
1 jar Very Berry Jam
21 jars Salsa (not sure how hot it is)

Available for 2 for $1 (4oz jars)
3 Chardonnay Jelly
2 Champagne Jelly
10 Mint Jelly
4 Merlot Jelly
1 Sauvignon Blanc Jelly
3 Hot Pepper Jelly
1 Cran Blueberry jam

If you’d like any of this, then contact me through whatever means you know (Facebook, email, comments on my website, etc) and I’ll get her your information.  Cash, check & credit card accepted :>

This is enough fun that I could do it for a few hours.. maybe I’ll make a post with a bunch of them later.

1. Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.  The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3.  The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days.  Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use Photoshop or something similar to put it all together.

WINK - Eternal Summer in the Grateful Heart

WINK was the Wikipedia article, the quote was “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart” by Celia Thaxter, and the image is here.

Using only song titles from one artist, answer these questions.

Band/artist: Rush

1. Are you male or female:  Working Man
2. Describe yourself: Digital Man
3. How do you feel about yourself:  Grand Designs
4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:  Scars
5. Describe your current boy/girl situation:  Closer To The Heart
6. Describe your current location:  Limbo
7. Describe where you want to be:  Between Sun & Moon
8. Your best friend is:  Everyday Glory
9. Your favorite color is:  Red Barchetta
10. You know that:  For What It’s Worth
11. What’s the weather:  Cold Fire
12. If your life was a television show what would it be called:  The Camera Eye
13. What is life to you:  Freewill
14. What is the best advice you have to give:  Leave That Thing Alone
15. If you could change your name what would you change it to:  By-Tor and the Snow Dog

I was going through the PlayStation Network the other day, like I do every now and then, and looking over the demos available for download.  Some demos I download even though I have no real interest in the game, just to see if maybe I’m wrong about it.  One such demo I downloaded on Saturday night fell squarely into that category.  MLB 09: The Show is the latest installment in the “MLB: The Show” series of baseball video games, and may be notable for being one of the few sports franchises which EA Sports doesn’t have their claws in.  Now, for those people who know me fairly well, you know that sports and I just don’t get along.  I don’t watch stuff on TV (the occasional football game, such as the Super Bowl, notwithstanding) since it’s pretty boring for me to watch other people play a game.  The only sporting event I’d remotely enjoy seeing live in person would be a baseball game, and that’s more because of the atmosphere than the game itself.  I don’t have a favorite team of any sort.  I don’t know stats.  I’m lucky if I know all the rules of a game for that matter.

But, I really like this video game.

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Okay, yeah, I’ll bite on this one.

• Real name: Steve Huston
• Witness protection name: (mother and fathers middle names) Elaine William
• NASCAR name: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad) Alfred Albert (hah!)
• Star Wars name: (first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name) Husst
• Detective name: (favorite color, favorite animal) Red Raccoon
• Soap opera name: (middle name, town where you were born) Robert Willingboro
• Superhero name: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink, add “The” to the beginning) The Blue Whiskey
• Fly name: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name) Ston
• Street name: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie) Vanilla Chocolate Chip
• Porno name: (1st pet’s name, street you grew up on) Farkas Cinnaminson
• Gangsta name: (first 3 letters of last name plus izzle) Husizzle
• Drunk name: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name, last two letters of your first name then last three letters of your last name) Tsroveton

USING ONLY ONE WORD! It’s not as easy as you might think! Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to tag the person you received it from!

Yes, yes.. I’m foregoing my normal introductory rant about the number of these things that go around.  Hell, they’re actually getting me to post stuff on my website again.. now I just need to find time to wade through a few GB of photos & videos, and I’ll be caught up on all my website updates.  Anyway…

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Wondering if anyone knows of a real shoe store in my area.  I’ve gone on too long with the shoes I’m currently wearing (my feet get wet if there’s any water or snow on the ground), and the last few times I’ve tried on shoes I’ve always ended up with ones which either are too tight, or feel fine on the sides and are too long – leading me to believe I need to go to a real shoe store that sells shoes in widths other than standard.  Only problem is that I don’t know where to go, since places like Payless seem.. meh.