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Weekend of Frustration

Keitarou as Kyuusaku/Jetblack

jetblack reports on his weekend of frustration that has a happy ending.

Throne

Julia and I went chair shopping over the weekend. The chair I had been using since last 2003 finally killed my back and so she and I traded chairs since I’ve been experiencing a lot of back pain while using my old one. Julia was using my even older black chair for sitting, and ever …

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Power Outage

I was all prepared to go to work on Friday morning, but the weather had other plans for me. I woke up a little later than usual, and began my morning routine only to have the power go out on me. Not once, but twice. The first time happened while I was brushing my teeth …

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2007: We Hardly Knew Ye

Things I’ll remember from 2007: – The New England Patriots choking hard in the AFC Championship and Tom Brady walking off the field, refusing to congratulate the Colts like a man. Of course, that’s ancient history now that they’re 16-0… but I’m still pulling for another choke in the playoffs. – Punch an’ Pie starting …

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Road

Today’s Holidailies prompt is:  “What childhood activity do you miss? What childhood activities have you refused to give up?” Around my neighborhood, we used to ride our bikes up and down the block constantly.  So much so, that we made up a game called “Road.”  The sidewalk on our block was inset from the road …

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Feed or Post?

How do you read my blog?  Do you guys prefer to have me crosspost, or is the feed account enough?  I would hate to double-post on you guys, so it would be a big help to know if it’s getting annoying or not.  Please let me know.

Support the WGA!

The members of the Writers’ Guild of America are on strike until they get what’s owed to them and I support them in their attempt to bring this problem to light. While I will be sad that my favorite television programs are on hiatus (or using up what scripts were written prior to the strike), …

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Feeds are up!

The new blog site has feeds up and running: RSS 2.0: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jetblack/ LJ Syndication: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/jetblacks_place/ If you’re interested in comments only, there’s: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jetblackcomments/ Also, if you use My Yahoo or Google Reader or another RSS aggregation application, you can visit the site directly and use the chicklets under ‘Syndicate’ on the sidebar.

Monday Grumbling

Monday, Monday… guh. I guess it doesn’t really matter what kind work starts on… it’ll always feel like a Monday to me. When I worked weekends and my first day was a Friday, Friday became like Monday to me. And what sucked about working weekend for me was the fact that I had to go …

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Testing the new digs…

More after the cut…

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