This is a good (and funny) article about introverts. ISTP here, by the way.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=370_0_1_0_C In late April, two teen-age students in Oakland, California, got an unwelcome, real-life lesson in civics. During a heated class discussion at Oakland High School about politics and President Bush, the boys made comments the exact nature of which are in dispute, but which their teacher believed constituted a threat toward the president. The teacher went to the FBI. Secret Service agents showed up at the high school the next day to interview the boys, both 16. The school principal sat in for an hour and a half as agents interviewed each student individually, without their parents? knowledge or…

and I like to go to Dave & Buster's every once in a while, so we had a bunch of voucher slips that we needed to convert before 10/1, and also somehow we'd accumulated a handful of comp cards. We decided to go last night to preserve our ticket vouchers and to drain the extra cards to get rid of them. After all is said and done, we wound up with 5400 tickets – so we spent half of them on this:

I'm glad I was reading friends of friends or something like that. The Declaration of Independence (yeah, THAT subversive document) is traveling the US!! And it's going to be in Austin!! http://www.independenceroadtrip.org It'll be here October 25 – November 9 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu

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My kitten reading an LJ about a kitten reading LJ…

Official weigh in was 281.8 lbs today. That's down 1.2 for last week, and 10 lbs total. Short entry today, because I really don't have anything I want to say. The program is going fairly well, and that's about it. :)

– official looking envelopes that say “Please do not discard” that only have credit offers in them. – credit offers on paper wider than standard, so it's more difficult to shred. – Domain Registry of America – the 21st century equivalent to phone slamming – Verisign – 'nuff said. More later, I'm sure. Back to the desk…

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One of these days, I'll get around to updating the photo albums on my site. But until then, most new pictures are going up on my Webshots album New kitty goodness and stuff!