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I love the smell of ocean.
My wife and kids are gone this weekend to Dallas to visit her sister. So I did things which I usually don’t do. How about a nice Saturday morning ride? Since gas is so expensive, I decided to make it a short outing to Galveston island.
I45 > [...]

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… As many parts as I am changing (fixing), I might have a brand new motorcycle pretty soon.
So early in the morning, I commute. Stop at a gas station and fill her up, a daily routine. She won’t start. Hmmmm…… I park her, tell the station owner [...]

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One of my best friend, JWC was in town today. But the reason he was in town was not that good.
His father-in-law had a surgery at Methodist Hostpital, which is just across the street from my work place. So I went to visit him, his wife, his daughter, his mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and bunch [...]

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A quick note. I played a gig with Andre Thomas tonight. Good player. I haven’t played much jazz lately so I felt a little rusty, but I handled it OK. He teaches at FSU, that’s where Leon is teaching. And he know Leon. Wow, small world.

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i forgot to post about my experience with changing slave cylider on VS800. i told you about my crazy week. as i said i lost my slave cylinder. last friday i ordered it from my local suzuki dealer and it came on the following thursday.
it was a very straight forward procedur. [...]

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my labor day turned into a real laboring day.
recently, we received a letter from our neighborhood association stating that our rain gutter needs repaint. well, so early in the morning, i got out there start sanding the rusted spots. i guess that took at least a couple of hours.
then i started to prime. i got [...]

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i have been using this new version of safari for a few days now. i have had no problem. the neatest feature is that when you highlihgt a word and right click/contextual menu, then you get these wonderful choice of
search with spotlight
search with google
search with dictionary
copy
this is one the most convenient feature apple [...]

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hey, gmail notifier for mac is out. you can download it at
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index?promo=gdl-en
as any mac application, installation is very simple and you should have gmail envelope to click on.
have fun
j-)

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“Food Stamps Make America Stronger” is the motto for usda. Guess what I just found out from watching news about Katrina refugees. They were trying to get food stamps and a family of three were getting something like $390/month. Well, so I looked into it.
According to
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/Translations/English/313Brochure-04.pdf
family of four like [...]

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(写真-Indystar.comより）
アストロドームは1万1千人で満員になってしまったそうです。それでも、拳銃30丁没収、布団の取り合い、などで逮捕される人が断たないそうです。ドームの外には病院も設置。
ヒューストン市内/郊外全体でホテル、シェルター、アストロドーム、などなどいろいろなところに今避難されてますが、シカゴトリビューン紙によると全部で7万５千人の難民がヒューストン地域に避難しているそうです。
私たちの行っている教会でも無料で昼食、夕食を準備し、多いときで400人の難民の方々が食事にいらっしゃってます。
どのくらい続くのでしょうか…
(msnbcより)

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