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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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 english: [...]

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You are a waste of perfectly good air. I am ashamed and disgusted you exist, and frankly wish you would do us all a favour and fix that for us all.
Christa came home from work today wondering why there was a dog at the house across the street. That’s funny, because the house is empty. [...]

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I got a letter in the mail yesterday from a claims adjuster for Iams.

It already starts off on the wrong foot as it says they tried to contact me (which they didn’t), and if I don’t respond to the letter within 30 days my claim will be voided. Man I wish I had a lawyer [...]

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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 was [...]

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July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)
8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
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Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a [...]

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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 — they can [...]

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It’s Wednesday night. It’s time for Lost, right?

Nope. No new episodes of Lost until February. Yes, that means 8 months of waiting.
Thanks ABC, thanks.

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I need to write a nasty letter to the vending machine company here at work. They always seem to put the Butterfinger bars so high up in the machine that when the machine drops the them to vend, the candy bars inevitably break.
That’s almost as good as the time they put the pop-tarts all the [...]

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According to news today in the Toronto Star:
WASHINGTON – An industrial chemical that led to a recall of more than 100 brands of cat and dog foods has been found to contaminate a second pet food ingredient, expanding the recall further.
The chemical, melamine, is believed to have contaminated rice protein concentrate used to make a [...]

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