- IQ

- Quick and Dirty IQ Test

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- Pastafarianism

- Flying Spaghetti Monster. Also here.

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- Daylight Saving Time

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Can we say MAJOR PAIN IN THE ASS? Think of all the devices you own that change time automatically - like VCR's and things... now they're going to be changing weeks off. F*CKERS!
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- The New Old...

I'm back where I started, yet it's all changed. When you leave people, places, and things behind, they tend to change while you're gone. I talked to a guy I worked with just over a year ago and so much has changed there that it would be depressing to go back. Friends that used to be available to hang all the time are busier now. Did I really expect them not to find other things to do while I was gone? I don't know. When I left, I had no intention of returning other than to visit.

Being up in a county that I don't know very well makes me feel like I'm still 500 miles away and trying to find my way - not to mention trying to find myself... will I eventually find myself back where I started in the first place? Who knows? Perhaps I'm not even findable... or maybe I'm just not ready to be found...

- Well, I'm here...

Actually Davison is very nice. If it wasn't for the damned humidity, I could almost forget I'm in Michigan. My neighbors are really nice. I already fixed someone's computer. Stores are within 5-10 minutes away and it's not nearly as congested as Auburn Hills/Pontiac. I still find myself crushing a "soda" can once in a while - a habit that will die hard. Now if the lovely phone company would hook up my friggin phone, I'd be in business. At least I've had internet for a few days... the cable guy was a bit of a moron, but he did manage to get it turned on (after about 3 hours).

- Wasting Time

At this point, I shouldn't really be playing with downloading music and crap, right? I've got to be ready to move in a couple days. I need to back up my PC and move onto the laptop and pack all of my peripherals as carefully as possible...AAAAHH!! If I never have to pack another friggin box, I can die a happy woman. Ok, I'm done bitching....

First of all, thanks to Sarah for recommending "Fire Me, Please". It's very good as far as reality shows go. It's one of the more original ones out right now, so I'm impressed.

Now, a tech tip... if you've hopped on the torrent train, you might have found it slightly annoying to have to download full albums to get the songs you're interested in. When you're looking for torrents, search for "Promo Radio" in Isohunt. These are the promo cds that get shipped to radio stations (I assume). There's one for each month for each genre (I've easily found a bunch of current country songs this way). Good Luck!

Oh, and if you're into downloading movies that are still in theatres and get them in .rar files that extract to bin/cue files, a good player to watch them straight in the bin/cue format is VideoLAN (or VLC) player. That player will play practically anything - even can connect to shoutcast stations.
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- Michigan - what's good about it?

So less than 3 weeks until my move and I'm trying to think of what's good about Michigan... my cousin who lives in GA claims that you can only get good pizza in the north. Sorry, but the best pizza I've ever had is Papa Johns Barbeque Chicken & Bacon, and yes, that's here in TN. I'll for sure be giving the local Papa John's a try when we get into MI. When I think of pizza, I think of breadsticks. And since I started thinking of breadsticks, I haven't been able to stop thinking about cheesedip - not just any cheese dip, but McPhee's cheese dip. There's not another place I know that makes bar cheese like that. I make some decent cheese dip, but it really doesn't compare. Anyone know anyone that works or has worked at McPhee's? What's in that stuff?

Ok, so the best things in MI are McPhee's bar cheese, Cooks Ice Cream.... what else? I can find Western Dressing up there - not that I'm a big salad eater... The sales tax is less... why am I drawing a blank?