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2008-11-25 I wore my Raiders of the Lost Ark hat in to work today. No reason. It worked well in the car blocking the sun coming in from the side. Must remember that. I got some coworkers who sang the song as i passed on the way to lunch. =] Listened to a podcast about the prostitutes at the fames Chicken Ranch working for less money. The parties are being discounted. More men are coming in, but spending less money. The number of women applying for jobs is at an all time high. They have had lay-offs. Things are tough all over. Citygroup gets 20 billion dollars of my and your money. Throwing good money after bad. They already got 25 billion in the previous bailout. This is 20 billion more. Are sub-prime mortgages even illegal now? When I'm I listen to Marketplace or other podcasts that give financial numbers, I usually already know the numbers from today. it gives me a sense of knowing the future. They always hint at a future at some point in the shows. That seems to be why they are around. I very rarely find myself saying anything like "How right you are." They are almost always at least somewhat off. Two Coast Brand: A company or brand that is only available on the East and West coast. Macy's was one of these for a long time. They couldn't advertise during their own parade because they were not a nation wide store. Someone's wife is pregnant. Matt worked on a senior project that put a head-up display in a motorcycle helmet. Someone said they needed it for diving masks to detect sharks. Someone's sister's kids coming over for the holidays and he refuses to be responsible because she does not watch them. Nat and Elle went to the Houston Zoo this morning. I got the bullets over the phone while at lunch. It sounds like they had a ball. Nat will be off line for a bit after her surgery tomorrow. The rest of the world believes that the U. S. was built on the backs of slaves and on the land of the American Indian. I suppose it was. I'm not giving in to liberal guilt. No one from then is alive today for you to sue if you feel so inclined. I'm not sure what to tell you except get over it and make yourself a life in today's world. The pyramids were 2 million two ton blocks over 20 years. A 10 hour day average means a block falling in place every three and a half minutes. The replica pyramid in Vegas took five years with modern equipment and unions. it is much smaller. The workers who worked on the original pyramids were well fed. They were not slaves. "quif" means haircut in the British version of the English language.