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The 1" ball valve on the left is the one I installed on the tank. The inlet on the right will be connected to the pump (1/2" hose) and the table platen will be connected on the right (1" hose). It's threaded into the tank, and just needs to be welded into place and I'll have the perfect tank for a 2x2 foot table!

I didn't get the job at State Farm. After 10 weeks and several phone and face to face conversation he said that he went with someone with more experience. I just don't get it. Why would he drag it out for 10 weeks, talk salary, bonuses, and start time for a shift and then just call me and say sorry? He said he would pass my name along in case anyone else needed help in their offices. I just feel bitter about the whole thing.

Day 5 – 9/17

Day five was another solo journey, which started at the 24 hour food stand on our block. I wish there was a place in walking distance here where I could get samosas whenever I want (there’s a restaurant further north, however, and it has been taken most advantage of).

I had been given mixed reviews to whether I should make the British Museum a priority for the trip, but in the end my decision to go was based on how much regret I think I would have if I didn’t. How could I, an honest tourist, pass it up?



There were a few exhibits of limited duration, including a Japanese Dogu display that was only running from September through November of this year. It focused on clay figurines from the Jomon period (14,000 B.C. – 400 B.C., or B.C.E. for the PC folks), most from about 2,500 – 1,000 B.C.), and the majority have never been on display outside their country of origin. Most of the text for the exhibit was mere speculation, and all the world seems to know about them is that they’re the oldest found forms of pottery manufacture on earth. Hm. I guess the power of the ancients and their secrets will only remain in the past.

There were a few other remarkable exhibits – 7,000 years of Chinese jade, an incredible clockwork display (I’m a sucker for the miniatures), thousands of incredibly preserved porcelain works, and an interesting room on the history of money.



They sold bottled mango lassi in the lobby!

I dropped by Buckingham Palace again, hoping to catch the Royal Guards this time after the Tuesday rains, and there they were behind the gates. Perhaps they had enough of pesky foreigners and no longer posted in front of the entrance?

Next: the Tower of London. The beefeater tour was worth waiting to hear, especially since my remembrance of history at the tower was fed mostly by fiction and film. A Yeoman warder conversed with our waiting group, expressing his disdain for tourists yet managed to offend noone, and I met a family from Wheaton (?!). I wish more attention was given to the building where Newton lived, but I was content with the White Tower, Bloody Tower, Traitor’s Gate, and other such Capitalized Places. All of us had to stand on a conveyor belt which whisked us past the Crown Jewels, which in hindsight was a genius idea since who knows how backed up the building would become as onlookers stared forever. The ravens seemed happy with their lot. There was also an exhibit on Henry the VIII, entitled “Dressed to Kill.”



After returning to the hostel, Jer and I practically ran to Wigmore Hall to make it in time for a concert being put on by the Ysaye Quartet. They were recommended by a couple friends, and it was worth the run. They bowed and bowed.



We returned to the hostel in our suits, and as we were walking towards our room a small group was leaving. One of the girl commented to us, “Oh, all business!” We joined them with their friends at the bar, all four from Bremen, Germany, until the bar closed.

Holy 70s TV, Batman!  Ebay, here it comes.

(it's not a target label, it's what salvation army uses for their collectibles.)
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My water heater breathed its last a few months ago. So last weekend my mom and dad came over and we replaced not only the water heater, but the oven and the dishwasher as well. The old appliances were all from the 70s, and the dishwasher hasn't worked since I moved in here. So we had a madhouse of installation people here, and they apparently had to move some pipes around to get the dishwasher in, but somehow it all got done.

Except that someone, in the process, did something to break my clothes washer. Hot water and dishwasher are nice and all but I WOULD NOT HAVE TRADED BEING ABLE TO WASH MY CLOTHES FOR THEM. ARGH.

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And it's a doozy.

I know what's supposed to be happening here... but....
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Don't forget to visit us at the LUMC Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, Nov. 14th!
Date: November 14th, 2009
Location: Littleton United Methodist Church
5894 S Datura Street
Littleton, CO 80120
Hours: 9am-4pm

Do your holiday shopping! Homemade food and bake sale! Shopper's Bingo; stop at each vendor and get your card stamped to be eligible for door prizes! Come see Charmedseed Jewelry on the Lower Level of the building, and enjoy!

Atlanta Mission Thrift Store Hoooooooooo!
Brought to you by a morbidly obese pig.

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Who knows? Prolly a chocolate Ferretone cake... ;*)~

Prejean also reveals that Trump personally inspected each of the contestants, lining them up on stage and asking them which other contestants were "hot." After he made his way through all the girls, he motioned the ones he liked to one side, leaving the "discards" on the other side: "It became clear that the point of the whole exercise was for him to divide the room between girls he personally found attractive and those he did not."

Many of the girls found this exercise humiliating. Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after he left, devastated to have failed even before the competition really began to impress "The Donald"... even those of us who were among the chosen couldn't feel very good about it -- it was as though we had been stripped bare.

I'm sorry, but what exactly were you EXPECTING the Miss USA pageant to be? Did you really think you were being judged on your 'talents'? Certainly not your public speaking abilities, since you obviously have none. Or did you expect that beauty pageants were some sort of magical public ritual, in which the judges could see through your unworthy exterior to judge purely on the beauty of your soul. Honestly, woman.

I'm thinking of disappearing for a year so I can pick up dueling YGO again and duel chibiko721

Boogie loves his new baby kitten Eckersley:



(Of course, Eckersley, like Boogie, is a rescue who arrived via simplykimberly's House of Cuteness. You might remember Boogie's infancy.)

thought process:

"oh teehee, that looks like an urn!"

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CTA bus crashes into house on South Side; 4 hurt - Chicago Breaking News

The picture is priceless.

 Hello, I'm a newbie from Anchorage, Alaska!  I've been collecting horrors for the last few months, so I've got some awful stuff to show you. The first batch starts with this thing: 


OH MY GOD THE LEFTOVER HALLOWEEN RAT HAS MAN-BOOBS. And a belly button. WHY. 
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