did outline for 7;determined to finish before Christmas. [...]
The city has added a sidewalk to one of the streets near where I live. We have rural-type mailboxes so they left space between the curb and the new sidewalk for the mailbox poles. Oops, they didn't leave enough room for the, you know, mailboxes. The' [...] 
We have had bunches of rain! It streamed up from Texas and Oklahoma following I-44. The remnants of this SW system can be seen in the lower right of the radar image above.
Scary bulletin from Weather Bureau above. 
The lobby of our local post office has all those new self-service contraptions--and an attendant to explain how to use them. (1) Are they not missing the point of self-service? (2) I want my school taxes back! [...] 
chili -- chilli
The whole Industrial Revolution has been a conspiracy by the plants to get us to produce more carbon dioxide to quench their insatiable lust for sugar (See: Photosynthesis). We've been outsmarted yet again by the African Violets.
Woman ahead of me in the McDonald's drive-thru...
You go to snailmailr.com.Fill in your address.Fill in who will receive your letter.Then a Word-type screen allows you to write your letter.Then you pay $1 (or $1.15 for no snailmailr logo).They send your letter by USPS.I'm just not sure. I would not invest in it,' [...] 
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If you see this man, please contact your local police.
Eli Manning will get $106.9 million over the next seven seasons as quarterback for the New York Giants. That's an NFL-high average annual income of $15.27 million.
Why not just say it's going to rain?
March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863
The Most Fattening Foods of Summer SlideshowI eaten everything on these slides this weekend, so this might be goodbye!
Went through the drive-thru line at Kentucky Fried Chicken Sunday evening. I forgot to order, so when I got to the windows they had no food for me. True.
I saw a TV spot for Shake 'n Pour.
Is there a shortage?
The guy in the picture is Aaron Schock, one of Illinois' U.S. Congressmen. The photo was apparently leaked to the press to help squelch rumors that he's gay. Not sure if there's a Plan B.
Montage-a-Google
Image above -- Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree
Two-alarm blaze at fire restoration business
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"Jon and Kate are divorcing because somewhere in the country two gays got married."
The picture above is a Verizon Blackberry Storm.
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We had 10.5 inches of rain on Memorial Day, plus more rain today.
I closed my Amazon Visa account several months ago. Amazon Visa did not take kindly to that. The bill below is not Photoshopped -- they raised the interest rate to 116.05% This just keeps dragging on since new interest accrues in the nano second it takes [...] 
Do you suppose men who groom their eyebrows get five o'clock shadow above their, you know, eyes?
Illinois is the first state to offer variable electric pricing based on market price. I signed up immediately. The image above is from the web page where I check current electric rates. As you can see, I can save considerable money by switching the use of [...] 
Rooty has diabetics (a common side effect of chemo).
William Fox (born Fuchs Vilmos) founded Fox Pictures and built a chain of movie theaters in which to show his films. Fox intended his theaters in St. Louis, Detroit, Brooklyn, Atlanta, and San Francisco to be spectacular. He succeeded. The picture above is the lobby of [...] Stephen Colbert, of the Colbert Report, easily won the right to have the forthcoming addition to the Space Station named after himself. It wasn't even close: 230,539 write-in votes for Colbert vs. 40,000 for NASA's top suggestion Serenity.
Ignoring both the top vote-getter and its own recommendation, NASA chose Tranquility.
In 2006, [...]
Bad reaction.
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I sold my 200th copy on amazon.com in the wee hours of this morning!
...gravity is getting stronger. 
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