I got a new suit. It has pinstripes. I like my new suit. Why do I have a new suit? Guess.

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Everyone knows the old saying here in Michigan, wait a day and the weather will change. Sunday night: Today: It’s snowing today. Not quite sticking like the photo, BUT DAMMIT ITS STILL SNOWING! WTF happened to fall?

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Good times, with good friends. It’s a game of Bocce Ball and another drunken 5 hours of Catch Phrase. Many a good time can be had with Catch Phrase, but they really should put a disclaimer on that game that states “it never ends”. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I drove home at [...]

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I always wondered what it was like to blow a transmission in a car. I found out last week. Keeping the story short I blew a gear getting on the freeway bad enough that it blew clean through the transmission case. (Un)Lucky for me the Hyundai transmission is connected directly to the differential. Translation into [...]

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We’ve both been busy traveling pretty non-stop over the past month, so it hurt updates. We went to Canada 2 different weekends for family and concerts, went to Atlanta to visit Steamy (Steve & Amy) for 4 days over the holiday, and I went to Oregon for work & to visit Jamie in Portland last [...]

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At the risk of making the-most-annoying-song-in-the-world be stuck in your heads for the next 2 weeks, it’s a fucking small world, after all. Way way back in time (2 years ago) when I proposed to Christa, I bought the domain mattandchrista.com. I had given the name a lot of thought, and conducted weeks of extensive [...]

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I realized Saturday when I went to buy some booze that I lost my license at some point during the Ferndale Bar Crawl Friday night. I had a great time and visited 9 bars in the 4 hours we were out and about. Probably TOO good of a time if I lost my license. I [...]

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Happy 24th Jacqui! We celebrated by drinking 40s on Belle Isle. Can’t get much better than that!

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I read an article on MSNBC this morning about new research that is revealing dogs are smarter than we previously thought. The experiment suggests that dogs can put themselves inside the head of another dog — and perhaps people — to make relatively complex decisions. “This suggests they can actually think about your intention — [...]

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I admit it, it’s my fault. I didn’t make it to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) at all this weekend. I feel like I owe an apology to a lot of people for plans made, and plans broken. To Jason, Justin, Phil, Jeremy and others: you were right. Now that it’s over, I’m regretful [...]

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