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• My honey made me cookies last night. I had cookies today at work. Thank you sweetie. It made the day so much better. They even had sprinkles. How cool is that? I ate the whole batch before leaving. I didn't offer to share a single one.
  
• I heard on a podcast today that a quarter of a million people work for drug lords in Mexico. Drugs are one of the largest industries.
• Question
• Name one manufactured good in your home made in Europe.
• Name one manufactured good in your home made in Africa.
• Name one manufactured good in your home made in the Middle East.
• Name one manufactured good in your home, from the last five to ten years that was not made in, and has no components made in China.
  
• The Voyager space craft used Jupiter's orbit to slingshot itself to the outer part of the solar system. Voyager doubled it's velocity. Jupiter lost about 1 meter of velocity over the next five million years. Roughly. (DR Karl)
  
• The Linux box I've been using for months already has TrueType fonts on it. And here I was digging up useless info to add some basic feints that Windows uses all the time. All I want is Helvetica/Areal. I plan on using it for everything. It worked for me on Windows. The look alike on Linux is very light. I want the bold lined version that I fell in love with on Windows.
  
• Hillery Clinton has this laugh she uses when she receives a question that she is supposed to think is just absurd to have even been asked. It is the tut-tut sort of chuckle. I can't frigging stand it. It pisses me off every time I hear it because it sounds manufactured. It reminds me she is a woman. Thatcher never did that.