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I picked up an apple on the way out the door this morning and regretted the move after my first bite. It was a wet apple that dripped after every bite. The worst of the damage was from a large trickle that dropped from the apple down my shirt sleeve. It ran all the way down to my elbow. Sticky.

Yesterday was my 49th bike commute to work. I got a flat tire on the ride and had to catch a bus the rest of the way. I’m going to count it since I did get 6 miles in and I feel like I kept the spirit of the goal. Still – I was one ride short for the year so I’m extending the goal into next year. I have to ride to work 50 times in the coming year.

Now – to figure out how to change a road tire. They’re so small.

Talk about stink. I only got 54% of this year’s trivia calendar right. Ewww.

I think boxing day is to often overlooked and it seems like such a nice, utilitarian holiday.

Advice for those applying for jobs at an academic institution:

Do not answer supplemental questions with content that you have taken verbatim from a Google search. There’s nothing wrong with doing some research to understand the field you’re getting in to, but credit the work or at least change some of the wording.

I won tickets to last Friday’s Blazers v. Sonics game. Michelle and I went figuring “how bad can it be? It’s free!” Well, it was pretty bad. It was my first NBA game and I admit that seeing the Globetrotters back in middle school set the bar pretty high. I’ll also admit that I went in to it hoping the Sonics would win. I’m not sure why, but I felt a greater sense of loyalty to them. Needless to say, when we left at the end of the third period $40 poorer, I had picked the winning team.

Here’s a couple things I noticed.

• The rose garden was empty. We sat 10 rows down from the top which gave us a pretty good view of the arena. The entire crowd could have fit into the 100s section.
• The event and it’s immense chaos is meant for TV viewers. The ultra-bright LCD scoreboard/pep-machine that encircles the arena will burn the retinas of anyone actually sitting above the 200 level. Luckily those people are poor anyway so it doesn’t matter.
• Did the court get smaller? It only takes the players like 10 strides to cross the court!
• I finally get the jokes about traveling in the NBA
• How does Portland support an NBA team? The place was empty and most of the crowd looked to be under 16.

Late? Maybe. Done? Finally. Our 2005 Opt-in Christmas card.

Last night I was in the GIS lab until 1am putting together my GIS project writeup. Althought I could have finished earlier, I chose to screw around like my days in undergrad. ICQ with whoever happened to be online, trying to post to my blog (Yeah, I know – service sucks lately), and checking e-mail. It was kind of fun, but most of the group was rather somber. Ah, finals.

Michelle just read over my writeup and had to remind me that no matter how casual the class and assignment may be, it isn’t acceptible to use contractions. Also, stop writing like it’s a blog entry because it’s a graded assignment.

I just found a damp $5 bill on Killingsworth while walking Barley. Aside from the GPS crap, things are looking up.

About a year ago some new station moved in to town and started playing 90’s alt-rock hits with a few 80’s and 00’s songs. The stations is always on in Michelle’s car and in Jason’s too, and I hear the virtues of the station when we’re out together. Sure, it’s better than listening to your typical 60’s thru 80’s rock station, but not really any different. In the time that I’ve travelled around with Michelle in the last couple months, I’ve heard this Depeche mode song a good 20 times. It sounds like it could be new or 20 years old, much like Franz Ferdinand sounds like it could be 30 years old or new. I don’t like the Depeche song but I’ve heard it more than songs that I absolutely love.

This makes me wonder about a few things:

a) Is this 94.7 just an oldies station for 20 somethings?
b) How can this Depeche thing not be payola?
c) Is rock n’ roll noise pollution?
d) Is rock n’ roll just rock n’ roll?