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I cashed in the first of my “victory subs” yesterday. The spoils weren’t as spectacular as I’d expected them to be. In fact, by the time I actually ate the sandwich, it has been mashed by a water bottle and all the oil & vinegar goodness had settled to one side of the sandwich, leaving the other side dry and flaky.

Still, it was pretty good. Its hard not to be good when its a Spicy Italian with nearly everything on it. (pickles, mayo and mustard on an italian sub – nasty!) I’m not the biggest fan of subway, but they do a good job fitting a lot of veggies onto their subs, and the spicy italian is a great sandwich. Now if only the artists that work there wouldn’t be so stingy with the oil and vinegar…

Despite scoring 1 point in the first of six events, I came back to win the campus frisbee accuracy contest with 125 points. The spoils? 2 free movie tickets and 2 free sub sandwiches.

When did The Learning Channel turn into such artificial, unintelligent and commercial tripe?

I was made to believe we’d have snow by now. I saw some last night. It wasn’t enough apparently. Go ahead and give it another try tonight.

I’m not sure who is propogating the myth, but skits on rap albums are not funny. In fact, I can count the number of entertaining skits on one hand. And that includes those that are just mildly entertaining the first time.

Take a lesson from indie labels. Stop recording 74 or 80 minute albums if you’ve only got 45 minutes worth of music. Hell, just release an EP. That’s cool in many circles. If you need an excuse, just say you love vinyl.

I’ve become familiar with the noises that our cars make. They may think they suggest immediate attention, but they’re wrong. Today we finally dropped off the Altima at a shop in town to have them look at replacing the timing chain or chain tensioner that is making horrible screeching noises when we start up the car. There are several bulletins from Nissan about problems with the pair so hopefully this rather expensive service will fix the noise. Oddly enough, I’ve noticed the same noise from a slightly newer Altima on the next street over, and have heard it in the parking lot at work.

The same thing happened with the Yoda and the whistling that was created by the tiny holes in the muffler. Hopefully the repairs on the Altima will be as successful as those on Yoda and we’ll have a quiet car again.

If I’m ever going to write a thesis, I’m going to have to be less succinct.

I finished off my Simpsons Triva Calendar this morning and really got spanked this year. 167 right, 127 wrong for a disappointing 56%! Its by far the worst score I’ve posted and isn’t even a passing grade. I realize that the total doesn’t add up – but I think I’m only about 10 points short when you consider that weekends were combined.

Andrew just finished converting his van to run on vegetable oil (greasel). He’s sent some pictures and I’ve updated his site and added the photos. More pictures are forthcoming.

Its time again for our Opt-in Holiday Card. We write it and make it available, but don’t print it, don’t send it, and you don’t have to read it. Really – you don’t. Won’t hurt our feelings.