:::: doing a happy dance :::: I get to meet today! And Mark L. too, I think! Yay – get to break my hermit status for a bit!

1. Which 5 LJ friends have you known longest? – 1994 – met in the ol Newsroom on AOL; been hanging out on mailing lists ever since. Definitely one I'd like to meet in RL someday. – 1997 – possibly. “Met” him online through an ex-bf and Usenet. I believe I virtually (through netmeeting) attended a party of his, but it could have been Nick's instead. Also high up on my “want to meet in RL” list. – 1998 – met through the Usenet newsgroup dfw.singles. The group held frequent GTGs and we hooked up at one at 's house…

Ever open up someone's LJ or comment and your eyes just start to bleed because the colors or design is so annoying? Just tack on “?style=mine” to the url – it'll look like your journal looks. Oh, if there's already a question mark in the url, make it “&style=mine” – no quotes, of course. /me has been looking at way too many journals with painful “styles”.

States visited are in bold. States lived in are in red. The pic wasn't part of the meme, I just had it lying around. :) Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas (narrowly avoided visiting when I got lost in Memphis…) California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming [Washington D.C.]

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Weigh in time: Starting weight: 291.8 lbs Last week: 263.0 lbs This week: 260.8 lbs Loss this week: 2.2 lbs Total loss: 31.0 lbs Loss rate: 1.39 lbs/week So now I've dropped (more than) 10% of my original bodyweight. I haven't (yet) begun any “real” (i.e. regular) exercise. What's different? – My (undiagnosed) IBS or whatever is not nearly as frequent or as horrible. I attribute this to the major decrease in grease consumption. – I can walk up two flights of stairs at a normal pace without wheezing and wanting to die. I'm still out of breath, but it's…

I want these. Nay… I need these, and I cannot find them. Terry's Chocolate Orange Mini Segments? 250g – Individually wrapped delicious segments of Terry's Milk Chocolate Orange?. I can find them on Kraft's UK site. I can find them on Kraft's AU site. I cannot find them on Kraft's US site, nor have I yet been able to find an online source for them. The store I've bought them from before discontinued them and I haven't found them anywhere I've looked locally. (I bought the last 3 boxes at a lovely price though!) The orange balls are everywhere to…

“We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. . . .It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until…

I'm cleaning up my hard drive in preparation to backing it up, in preparation to rebuilding the damn thing. I came across a file that I almost deleted. This file explains things that can be done with items your average farmer uses frequently. I saved this particular file because, while I have no need of the information in it, there are those in power who would label me with the “T” word, perhaps even jail me for merely possessing it. The fact that I'm even a little concerned about that tells me that the concept of thoughtcrime is insidiously creeping…

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