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12/15/2014 13:14 #59660

Animal errands
Category: pets
Sunday was a lot of errands. (e:paul) and (e:terry) went to go help Paul's parents with setting up their Chrismas tree, and I went to be IT at my parents.

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Before we set off we stopped for lunch at the new Balkan Dining restaurant on Kenmore Avenue. The portion sizes were ridiculously huge and cheap. We had leftovers for everything except for my vegetable mousaka.

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Sleepy Mid - wiped out from a walk
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Ferrets are so freaking cute

After Paul and Terry came back and picked me up, we went to Markham Pets to get Basra hay. The last time I was there in 2003, I was getting a guinea pig and it was disgusting. i remember bugs and fleas everywhere in the rodent cages.

This time it was much cleaner.
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Basra's smaller counterpart if he weren't such a dirrrty tortoise. He also had way less space.
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Little Meerschweinchen hiding in their house. I wanted to pick one up so bad.

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We went to Feel Rite after to use up Paul's scam insurance card. Why can't they just lower the premiums by $250? Anyway,we a got a lot of granola bars and questionable brain supplements. I don't really trust much in the store with the amount of woo - like the homeopathy and steroids. I don't put much stock in these pills except they may give you a little buzz.

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The tour finished with Terry getting the Note 4 before we went home. Paul and I brogrammed the rest of the night.
tinypliny - 12/22/14 16:39
btw, what happened to tortoise B?
tinypliny - 12/17/14 12:26
brogrammed. hahahaha

And (e:Paul), didn't we have a long conversation about these "supplements"? I thought we came to the same conclusion as (e:Joe)'s thoughts. :)

I would advise caution with something whose daily allowance limits are not known and are not likely to be determined any time soon.

12/14/2014 18:41 #59656

Mike blows
Category: mike
Friday night, we headed over to (e:mike) and (e:libertad)'s place to hang out. We got to see their new floors upstairs and a lot more of the house as it looks unpacked. It's really looking great.

The highlight of the night though was Mike's blowing showing off his blowing skills with a pinwheel.

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Our reaction

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tinypliny - 12/15/14 11:45
Did you see the poltergeist?
mike - 12/14/14 23:19
haha I don't even remember doing that!

12/13/2014 12:53 #59652

Office warming
Thursday was the office warming party for (e:allenstreet). The food was done by Coco and it was amazing. I definitely ate way too much dessert.

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heidi - 12/15/14 21:43
Otters!!! grumpy Jax face??
tinypliny - 12/15/14 11:47
those macaroons look awesome

12/13/2014 12:49 #59651

Lab mice
Category: work
I had to go through the creepy tunnels of the cell and virus building at Roswell the other day. Complete with 50s style lab posters - I was surprised none mentioned duck and cover in case of a commie attack.

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(E:Paul) had a 5th monitor that I got to steal while I was over there. It's an okay monitor in terms of quality, but it has a touch screen. I got it to work with Linux with by modifying xinput in Fedora with the xinput_calibrator - you have to set the input area to just include the touch screen and not both monitors.

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metalpeter - 12/20/14 22:04
I have not been in those tunnels But my mother was in Gates for a bit of time and the way we would get to her room the long empty halls felt like we where in a zombie or some kind of post apoc movie granted no pipes like that but still kinda creepy the same ....

12/07/2014 16:49 #59645

Total Request Rave in Toronto
Category: dancing
Was awesome. I drove up to Toronto in the second fastest drive of my life. It was terrifying. But we made it just in time to get half of Keith, (e:terry)'s old high school pal's set.

The whole night was happy hardcore. We were completely sober but I had so much fun dancing with the people there and the music. (e:casey) said it's because Canadians are polite and awesome enough for that.

The next day (e:terry) wasn't feeling well, so we had breakfast in the gayborhood and went home. Still a very fun weekend.

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