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• had a homemade superbowl party with chili, devilled eggs,cake,hummus,salsa, stuffed mushrooms and taterr skins, washed down with beer. #

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I was on my way to one place or another driving the surface streets of the suburbs. Traffic wasn’t too bad. Or so I thought.

I pulled up to a stop sign. I was in the right lane with a line of cars in the left lane. Directly across the intersection you could see the the right lane merging into the left. At the same time, a train was coming so traffic was backed up through the merge.

I pull up to the merge point and the dude next to me is tailgating the car in front giving the “FU your not merging!”. I usually just slip in behind him but was starting to get angry. I road that a$$ all the way making him really tailgate until he was uncomfortable. Then I slid behind him. The guy behind gave plenty of room for a merge.

Where do people get off getting all offended that I am merging? It’s not the highway where some one is trying to bi@#@#ch in front of a bunch of people.

I forgot, when I looked over for the stare down, he didn’t even look back. He was 10 and 2 white knuckled. I giggled a little then let him win his battle.

Is it wrong that my favorite song for the day is She Bop?

So I decided to call my mortgage guy. I wanted to get the best deal on a mortage for my new house purchase. So I said to him “What can you get me?”. He says to me “We have an interest only mortgage.” I think to my self…hmmm sounds exclusive. “Interest only mortgage” I say. “I’m interested in a mortgage, I’ll take that!” He then says, “It’s an adjustable rate mortgage.” I think to myself “perfect…if I ever get in trouble paying this mortgage, I can always adjust the rate to something I can afford. I say “I’ll take it!” before he can change his mind. Who would want a mortgage that your not interested in or can’t adjust?

I sign the paper’s without taking time to read them because I don’t want him changing his mind. What a chump!

My Tivo remote stopped working this weekend. Only one button worked.

I’m scared. No TV has forced me to….gasp…listen to the radio while not in the car, rent movies that are so-so, pay attention when others (wife) are speaking, etc. etc.

When will the agony stop!

UPDATE: I ordered a new TIVO remote from www.weaknees.com and it worked! I’m back baby!

I have been house hunting the last few weeks/months and have made some observations.

• why doesn’t everyone else have the same taste as me?
• who doesn’t clean their house when they are trying to sell it?
• when is a 1 car garage OK?
• why would you only upgrade the gas stove?
• why do most finished basements suck?
• how rickety can a swing set look before it falls down?
• are holes in dry wall that hard to fix?

Anyways.

It’s a pain in the butt to look for a new house. Nothing seems to “fit”. The hunt continues.

I was thinking today about technology and etiquette. It seems to me like some new questions about etiquette need to be answered.

e-mail

1. How long can you hold off responding before its considered rude?
2. What’s the time limit in reading the e-mail? (how long until you are confident the other person read it?)

instant messaging

1. Is a response to every message required?
2. How long until your over the limit in answering a message?
3. Is every message sent considered read?

mobile

1. Is it rude to send someone directly to voice mail?
2. Is it rude to not call back if no message was left?
3. Is it rude to call back without listening to the message first (based on caller id)

mobile messaging

1. Are the rules the same as instant messaging or more relaxed?
2. Are you required to respond?
3. When is a back and forth considered complete?

I don’t know the rules…does anyone? In person chats are easy. You respond to questions. You say thanks or goodbye and walk away when you are done. I guess when body language is taken out of the picture then everything gets a little more fuzzy.

The cable is still out. Even with threats to change to dish. Comcast still holds its ground.

They are a bunch of jerks. I just wanna have cable before football season starts. Is that so wrong?

Finally, the power is back on after over 24 hours. That is a record for me when it comes to outages.

Now we have all this food that defrosted. I will be cooking all day long. The smoker is gonna get a workout today.

All that is left now is to get cable back online. That was the original problem before everything else.

My cable is out. My power is out. The wind tore up all my trees.

…and the forecast? More rain.