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Entries from January 2006

Chili cookoff results

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

As Clint mentions here, I was the first person out of chili. I got the results, and they are posted here….
I was Chili number 35.
Ordered by #

Chili #
Raw votes (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
total based on 3-2-1 points (3
times 1st + 2 times 2nd + 3rd )

20
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So much for keeping up

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

So I’ll try to spin two haiku for you…
Insubstantiate
Truly is quite a long work
Say, whats its meaning?
and the second
Good evening mister
what a nice coat you have on
I bet you’re not cold.

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Chili cookoff recap

January 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Well, I entered my chili, and had a good time. I got up to the contest pretty early. There were only a few chili’s there at the time. I set up my crockpot and just proceeded to hang out. I talked with the people around me and had a good time.
I’m […]

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Still a day behind

January 29th, 2006 · No Comments

And perhaps today I’ll catch up….
Woke up Sunday morn
And I couldn’t feel better
No hangover here!

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New York Office Space

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Clint and I were talking a little bit ago and he had an excellent question. What is the real difference between Chicago office space and New York Office Space?
Now I don’t live in New York, so I couldn’t tell you about it. But I can tell you a little about Chicago’s. You […]

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Favor-able thinking

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments

When you get married you end up with a lot of things you’ll never need again. For example, we’ve got these little chinese takeout boxes that we used to put candy in for the guests. It was cute. We also had all these candycane thingies left over too, it was crazy. So […]

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Trading securities

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Have you ever done stock option trading? I used to dabble in regular old stock trading. Actually I thoroughly enjoy it, I wish I could afford to spend more money doing it, because I was pretty good at it. But in trying to save me some time, what is the difference between […]

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Gold v. Old

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments

The other day I was listening to Neil Young: Heart of Gold, and was listening, in particular to the song “Old Man.” Part of the lyrics go “24 and there’s so much more.” Funny that I’m not 24 anymore, and that just makes 25 seem that much further from 24 than it […]

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In memory of Jan 27th

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments

A makeup for yesterday….
Cooking can be fun
when chili is on the stove
the aroma rules

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Chili Cookoff, and I’m in it

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Well this should be fun. Tomorrow I’m participating in a Chili cookoff at John Barleycorn!
Here is all the info I have on the event.
St. Mike’s Ninth Annual Chili Cookoff
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2006
Time: 6:30 - 9 PM — chili eating, judging and voting.
Place: John Barleycorn, 3524 N. Clark […]

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