The Day in Tweets

• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dyrohc #
• 08:36 Finding out what episodes have scrolled off my TiVo without my knowledge. epguides.com #
• 23:50 Vlingo is the coolest thing ever. #

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• 00:03 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/c35o4e #
• 10:36 Toying with replacing iGoogle start page with netvibes www.netvibes.com #
• 22:04 on #lastfm : Emery – Rock-N-Rule tinyurl.com/5okt7b #
• 22:04 on #lastfm : Placebo – Follow the Cops Back Home tinyurl.com/ynwbye #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/cxaor5 #
• 14:08 I hate working on Sundays! But at least time is going quickly. #
• 14:09 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. #
• 21:07 on #lastfm : Interpol – Next Exit tinyurl.com/yu9bnd #
• 21:07 on #lastfm : Placebo – Drag tinyurl.com/2b3pcl #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/cb6glc #
• 20:11 Catching up on Days of Our Lives with the wife. #

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The Day in Tweets

• 00:01 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/ctrpe3 #
• 09:37 Why do women let men control them? #

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• 00:04 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/cez73w #
• 15:01 Screaming headache and tired of people right now. Sleep is the only thing that can save me, but that's not gonna happen. #
• 15:06 Dozing on my break, mid-tweet. #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dzbslr #
• 00:19 #lastfm #love Into The Ocean by Blue October bit.ly/oO5r #
• 00:37 on #lastfm : Dishwalla – Counting Blue Cars tinyurl.com/22zr4p #
• 08:09 Toasted wheat bagel with peanut butter and honey. #
• 09:34 @gamesville gregshortdotcom #
• 23:01 New #Blog Post: Percival Short-Acosta, 12/24/94 to 3/25/09 tinyurl.com/d5kfcl #

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• 00:03 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/cm5c2h #
• 07:32 Figuring out a way to keep Bertram from jumping on top of the bird cage. Get so pissed could wring his little neck! Birds my 1st love. #
• 07:42 @gamesville Reg confirmation expired, now can't get to register page. Sign up link takes me back to home page. ARGH! #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/d57z9z #
• 09:03 Playing Hangmania at WorldWinner tinyurl.com/cjcjeq #
• 11:37 Earned over $22 at InboxDollars. Looking forward to reaching the $30 payout. tinyurl.com/cjcjeq #
• 22:03 on #lastfm : Radiohead – 15 Step tinyurl.com/yov5w4 #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dxprlg #
• 10:40 It's raining sideways. #
• 10:44 And suddenly it's stopped raining again. #
• 11:29 @keepingfeet Look closely at a starling and you will see just how beautiful they are! I hand-raised one and they are actually quite charming #
• 14:09 California chicken wrap at Baker's. Girl Scouts thin mint. Want REAL chocolate! #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dj3wqt #
• 15:04 New #Blog Post: Finally, a Real Dining Room Set tinyurl.com/cnaajs #
• 15:04 New #Blog Post: My Favorite Spot tinyurl.com/czte6n #
• 15:04 New #Blog Post: The View, the Kid tinyurl.com/d5bbzc #
• 15:04 on #lastfm : Placebo – Meds tinyurl.com/2vdyh3 #
• 15:04 on #lastfm : KoЯn – Blind tinyurl.com/342pje #

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The View, the Kid

Oh yeah, Bertram enjoys the view, too.
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My Favorite Spot

It looks out the huge front window. I sit there to read, watch squirrels. Sitting there as I write this, Bertram just bit my ankle. Sorry for poor English; thumbs can only do so much. I sure need to cut the grass. Christy should be home soon with freshly cut hair and her light-my-soul-on-fire smile. Taxes will be paid.
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Finally, a Real Dining Room Set

Don't mind the blank walls. Hanging art is a (very slow) work in progress.
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The Day in Tweets

• 00:04 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dkcxnm #
• 00:49 RT: @mykol78 Audio: Paranoid Android by the UMass Minutemen Marching Band originally by Radiohead tumblr.com/xon1g8rv5 #

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• 00:03 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/cdbm9n #
• 08:51 Playing with the web cam in the sitting room. My favorite room in our house, but I don't spend nearly enough time in it. #
• 11:43 New #Blog Post: The Story of Sadie tinyurl.com/dfakt3 #
• 15:08 New #Blog Post: John's Incredible Pizza Co. tinyurl.com/cm4g8s #
• 20:41 Spent a wonderful day eating and shopping with the wife. We found a fantastic deal on a BEAUTIFUL dining room set. We couldn't pass it up. #

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John's Incredible Pizza Co.

Wow. Try it.
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The Story of Sadie

I hadn't planned on writing a detailed story about Sadie. She was back with her owners and that very small chapter of my life was over. No need to rehash it.

But when your sister-in-law, who also happens to be a heart specialist for animals, wants the story behind a dog or cat, you tell it. The following is from my email to her.

Here's the story of Sadie. Christy may jump in and add her own details.

So there I was driving Christy's car back from a smog check when I spotted this little, scraggly, black terrier mix. It was just around the corner from our house, dangerously close to Magnolia. The dog didn't appear to be very afraid of cars, so I became alarmed and pulled over. My first thought was: "Oh, my God, this is the exact dog with which I've always pictured myself." Which was quickly followed by my second thought, upon noticing the collar and tag: "Damn it!" (For purely selfish reasons, mind you.)

When I got out of the car, the dog seemed friendly but wary. It circled me, always out of arm's reach, making a feeble attempt at pretending to not care about my presence. I could tell it was hoping for a friendly face, eyeing me as it continued to circle, its tail between its legs. I squatted down, put my hand out, and called to it. It came over, took a quick sniff, then returned to circling just out of reach. I did some dog whisperer-type stuff, and the dog came back in for another sniff. This time, it stayed within reach, so I gently began to pet its head. When it seemed more relaxed, I looked at the tag, hoping for a direct number to the owner, but only finding the web site "petdata.com" and the ID number.

Being so close to home, I figured I could quickly look up the owner's information, so with some more dog whisperer-type stuff, I picked the dog up and placed it in the back seat of Christy's car. Fifteen seconds later, the dog found itself in our garage.

I excitedly ran in the house, made a beeline for our bedroom to find Christy just finishing making the bed, and said, "Guess what? There's a dog in our garage!" Christy blinked once, then again for good measure, and asked, as I led her to the garage, "What kind of dog?" My excitement came to a climax as I declared, "A scraggly one!"

In all my excitement, I was fully prepared to leave the dog in the garage as I looked up its information, but Christy brilliantly suggested, "Maybe you should put it in the backyard." So with Bertram safely locked away in his "playpen", I carried the dog through the house to the backyard. I let it explore the backyard for a while, introducing itself to all the neighborhood dogs. Then I remembered that the whole point was to look up the information online, so I picked the dog up, finally thought to check if it was a boy or girl, the latter being the case, and Christy noted the info from the tag.

Online, it was to my delight that I quickly discovered the information: 1) the dog's name is Sadie, for which I will always love the owners, and 2) the owners' surname, as listed on the petdata.com website, is Barkley, for which I will always love their ancestors. The phone number I obtained from petdata.com for the Barkley's was unlisted with 411.com, but a quick search for the last name Barkley in our zip code returned a handful of results... one of which was on a neighboring street. I now had a full name and address for the owners.

I called several times, leaving a couple of messages, letting the Barkleys know we had their dog and that we would contact them again upon our return home from work.

Before leaving for work, I let Bertram out of his playpen and observed his interaction with Sadie, the two separated only by a screen door. The meeting went surprisingly well: no hissing, lunging or swatting. At one point, Sadie sat by the sliding door, surveying her new territory (it didn't take her long to claim our yard as her own), while Bertram did rollies, scratching at the glass in a "Can I play with you?" sort of way.

The last time I saw Sadie, I started up my car and she came running around the side of the house, gazing at me hopefully. "Can I come with you?" she seemed to say. "Bye, Sadie," I said as I rolled down the window. "It's alright. You're a good girl."

The Day in Tweets

• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/c5un3y #
• 09:13 Eating TWO grapefruits as if it can make up for the gormandizing I did yesterday. #
• 09:39 New #Blog Post: Defining Our Times tinyurl.com/cgg4h9 #
• 09:39 New #Blog Post: Happy St. Patrick's Day! tinyurl.com/c5ln85 #
• 10:02 Off to get ready to go get a smog check for Christy. She was so happy when I offered to do it. #
• 12:07 New #Blog Post: Sadie, the Lost Dog tinyurl.com/d8wkbm #
• 23:03 New #Blog Post: Sadie Returns Home tinyurl.com/cpa4y6 #

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Sadie Returns Home

Sadie, the terrier mix I found around the corner from our house, after having spent the day in our backyard, has been safely returned to her owners. It's one of those sad, bittersweet moments. But I feel good, knowing I did a wonderful thing.

I'm off to go cry now....

Sadie, the Lost Dog

She's in our backyard. Left a message for the owner. Picked her up on the street.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Green.

Defining Our Times

I popped over to Google to verify the spelling of "gormandizing" using the define feature (e.g. define gormandizing). Upon typing "define " (with the trailing space) a list of suggested/popular/recent searches dropped down. I was very intrigued by the list, so I thought I would share it with you:

• love
• philosophy
• clew
• recession
• pragmatic
• integrity
• agnostic
• culture
• ethics
• socialism

The two most popular are "integrity" and "philosophy" which almost gives me faith in humanity. I think the list, as a whole, really does define our times.

Now I need to go "define clew"...

The Day in Tweets

• 00:03 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/c9eets #
• 07:53 Loading my BlackBerry with a fresh selection of music. Still waking up, and finding I am hungry. #
• 22:05 on #lastfm : Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge tinyurl.com/4tf3cy #

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• 00:02 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/b7odwj #
• 10:55 Funny hockey name: Cheechoo #

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The Day in Tweets

• 00:05 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/d4rwqc #
• 11:52 I love it when the TiVo records Davey & Goliath! #
• 12:14 Dear God, please tell me that this is just allergies. I can't be sick again already! #

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• 00:34 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/af7e4w #
• 09:49 New #Blog Post: Dolly the Lamb tinyurl.com/cfrqdl #
• 10:23 @parsifal TweetDeck is a RAM hog! Seeing as I don't have enough RAM to begin with, I ditched it, even though it's very useful. #

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Dolly the Lamb

I was reading in The Intellectual Devotional about Dolly, the cloned lamb. It gave some interesting facts that suggested something much more interesting, but it just didn't go there. But I will.

Dolly's "mother" was six years old when they took the genetic material from her to make Dolly. Dolly, at the age of six, was put to sleep due to lung cancer and crippling arthritis, both ailments common in advanced ages. What makes this extremely interesting is the fact that sheep generally live to 11 or 12. In any math class I've ever taken, six (the mother's age) plus six (Dolly's age) always equals 12 (the life expectancy of the average sheep). Did Dolly's body think she was six at birth and 12 at her death? This doesn't bode well for cloning.

Would it ever be considered acceptable to clone, say, a 40-year-old man, if the clone could only be expected to live 30-odd years? Is cloning acceptable at all? Is there any practical use for cloning? I think not.

Oh, and Dolly's story isn't over. Before her death, she mothered six sheep... naturally.

The Day in Tweets

• 00:06 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/bs2of2 #
• 09:25 I love this life. It's modest, but it's mine. #
• 10:22 Looking at grass alternatives for our back yard. is.gd/mUsS #
• 17:20 Is there such a thing as peanut butter yogurt? I just realized that peanut butter is one of my favorite things in the world. #

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• 00:11 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/bh9p8c #
• 00:11 on #lastfm : Tangerine Dream – Cloudburst Flight tinyurl.com/2osnyp #
• 00:11 on #lastfm : Vangelis – Tears in Rain tinyurl.com/2r63ep #

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The Day in Tweets

• 22:03 Thinking of dying my hair again for the first time since the wedding! I should cut my hair, too, but not sure what I want to do with it. #
• 22:36 on #lastfm : Radiohead – Paranoid Android tinyurl.com/2efe5q #
• 22:36 on #lastfm : The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?? tinyurl.com/4ozdv2 #
• 22:36 on #lastfm : Coldplay – Viva la Vida tinyurl.com/5ckzqt #
• 23:06 on #lastfm : Beck – Gamma Ray tinyurl.com/6buf7t #
• 23:06 on #lastfm : Blur – End of a Century tinyurl.com/2jllv5 #
• 23:06 on #lastfm : Interpol – Pace Is the Trick tinyurl.com/ysm6kt #
• 23:06 on #lastfm : Jonny Greenwood – Trench tinyurl.com/3fqthf #
• 23:06 on #lastfm : Muse – Time Is Running Out tinyurl.com/2yjdzd #
• 23:35 on #lastfm : Riceboy Sleeps – All The Big Trees tinyurl.com/bhsbb4 #
• 23:35 on #lastfm : Lynyrd Skynyrd – Comin' Home tinyurl.com/d4xs7u #
• 23:36 on #lastfm : Van Zant – Help Somebody tinyurl.com/dxg4nq #
• 23:36 on #lastfm : Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend tinyurl.com/2f7hfl #
• 23:46 #lastfm #love Tears in Rain by Vangelis bit.ly/zmr6d #
• 23:52 #lastfm #love Silk Road by Kitaro bit.ly/QqrXr #

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• 00:04 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/bjq2x8 #

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• 00:07 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/bcxshu #
• 01:42 on #lastfm : DJ Shadow – Broken Levee Blues snipurl.com/d7txn #
• 01:42 on #lastfm : Dropkick Murphys – The Dirty Glass snipurl.com/d7txt #
• 12:55 Working a short day today. Thank God. Maybe I'll actually get some work done around the house for a change. #
• 16:38 New #Blog Post: Bertram Sleeps with Tortuga tinyurl.com/atorx8 #

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Bertram Sleeps with Tortuga

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The Day in Tweets

• 00:07 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dhp7kg #
• 17:04 I've been a little off all day. No apparent reason. It sucks. I hate feeling like this. I feel a deep sense of blah. #

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The Day in Tweets

• 00:04 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/bbreel #
• 15:32 Just picked a couple dozen pink grapefruits. Juiced about six of them before my arm got tired. Should amount to about 3 juice glasses. #

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The Day in Tweets

• 00:05 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/dcww63 #
• 22:04 on #lastfm : Counting Crows – You Can't Count On Me tinyurl.com/555uy6 #
• 22:05 on #lastfm : Yusuf (Formerly Cat Stevens) – Maybe There's A World tinyurl.com/caayr6 #

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The Day in Tweets

• 00:04 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/caulyo #
• 10:15 Planted marigolds, rosemary and caladium. Will plant pink jasmine. But just finishing up breakfast, laundry. #

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• 00:00 New #Blog Post: The Day in Tweets tinyurl.com/ce979f #
• 09:39 Rain is on the horizon of the 4-day forecast. I may never have to water again. Is this really Southern California? #
• 09:52 I have a 2:1 following-to-follower ratio.Definitely no celebrity! #
• 13:42 Pink jasmine to cover chain link fence. Yellow marigolds for flower box next to garage. Cement to fix driveway. Love days off! #
• 14:32 on #lastfm : John Zorn – The Sicilian Clan tinyurl.com/64e3fh #
• 14:32 on #lastfm : The Residents – My Second Wife tinyurl.com/aopjtn #
• 14:32 on #lastfm : Psychic TV – BB tinyurl.com/cpw4px #
• 16:21 Spare room is becoming less "storage", more "usage". Can now use elliptical and watch cable or DVD's! #

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