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You hit 200,000 miles on 156th and Maple yesterday circa three minutes before 8pm. Congrats on the achievement.

A lame day was followed by a fun fire pit hang out at Anders' and Emily's place. All was going well except Head decided that the party wasn't going his way and threw a fit. He got his laptop, played his Michael Jackson CD, and became sullen. He was barking at The D' and making irrational demands. There was terse discussions that lead to the all too familiar party-buzz-kill from those talks. He wanted to pick a fight and I am certain he probably did before the night was out.

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Deals.Woot.com has a special alleging "$329 -- St. Thomas 4-Star Marriott Vacation w/Air, $400 OFF".

More like 5 nights (with flight) for $1129.00 per person. Hmm.... no food or transportation there.. plus baggage fees... Hmm.. that could be do-able..

Screw savings accounts.

I was able to secure three bags of crap (well technically one bag and at minimum three craps) from woot.com's wootoff at 4.15pm today! I don't think I have anything left from the last BOC - which I got 11/17/06. Hurray for me!

I couldn't get back to sleep until about 5.30a or so.. Was mildly hallucinating that I could feel the Benadryl working. Finally got to sleep.. slept through two alarms.. got up about 8.30a to head to work.

The Bennies are definitely working. The painful swelling is reduce and it no longer looks like my lip is going to burst and spew forth some foul liquid. I took two more with some gatoraide. Hopefully the fluids disperse more.

So yes, I am alive.

Circa 9pm I noticed I was scratching at the side of my face and my lip was getting puffy... this would be the bottom left size of my mouth.. almost at the corner of my mouth. After watching the episode of futurama the puffy was expanding..

I scoured google for a few... realized I had no Benadryl and just iced it.. a lot.. Got some drawing done... read my book (and iced it some more) until about 12.15am.

Woke up about 4am and the swelling was worse but localized to the whole bottom left lip from the corner to the middle. Yikes. Went on line to see if missed anything. It's now about three times larger than normal and a bit painful.

PC boots up and facebook starts... future brother in law was hammered and thinks it might be herpes. I jet out to get some Benadryl from the ol' walmart. I took two about eight minutes ago. (4.30am.) We'll see how this goes. If it's worse in two hours then Emergicare I go. I would prefer not to, but will if I have to. I would also prefer not missing the yankees game in KC this Saturday.

As far as I can tell the only thing consumed today (Thursday):
- lunch (11.30am) - elephant ear pork loin at the Crescent Moon.
- dinner was BW3 circa 7.15pm.. usual spicy garlic but I added six caribbean jerk (versus usual honey bbq).

My guess something in the jerk sauce is causing it.

I was a bit hot.. sweating subsided... I think the tablets are kicking in. Let's hope so.

For the record I am not having problems breathing (constricted throat) or tongue swelling.

If I die - let someone know the circumstances.

A special Legal Lunch occurred Monday. It was in honor of my biggest fan's bday (or b-dizzle for you hip folk). Tasty "mexican" food, humorous conversations, My Lawyer playing the fun scenario of "my eyes are more hungry than my belly", and what not. The more interesting pressure points was conversing with Susan about her soon to be daughter. Tsk... I can't help but see the Queen from Snow White as Susan was going off on: truncating this girl's dreams of getting all a's, wearing too much make up, acting too much like a teen age girl, and other things. Amusing on some level.

In other news I saw the first praying mantis of the impending fall. Long sucker.. about five or inches.. oddly patterned and in a funky yellow-green (versus the usual dark or bright green). It was in the parking lot Tuesday morning slowly shuffling across the concrete. I stooped down to get a good eye on the sucker and some lady would have ran 'em over if I wasn't there. I shall name him Lester. Lester was wise and was not there at 6.30 or so when I was going home.

Too damn hot I would imagine.

I should have snatched him up to kill that stupid toad that hops around my front door and pees as he was escaping some nonexistent threat.

No call back from CSG. I think I might apply for this job internally here. What not?

I finally snagged my new 'used wacom 3 graphic tablet'... stupid $14 shipping.. but i got it for about, on average, sixty bones cheaper. I was happy then was struck with "oh noes! That's 162 + 14 shipping! n00000000000eeeeeeeeesssssssss!".

So I paid and it better be everything I have dreamed about.

Complainer pants at work put his two weeks in..
Hairy Palms is gone by Monday..
Team lunch at Biaggis tomorrow!

For some reason this is really really bugging me. Where in the hell do I find my slashdot 'join date'?! I can track back posts and a few comments I have made over the years but really how do I tell?

Stellar freaking interview. Crazy good. The interviewer indicated a few other managers are shopping around for Senior C# guys and at best case scenario this "may start a feeding frenzy". Boooooojaaaaaaaah!

This should be fun... let's see how far this rabbit hole goes.

.. and the mood is fidgety, nervous, and mildly stressed. I reviewed the job post a few times over and I am certain I am good for it. It's a hopeful sign that the guy doing the phone interview is *not* the same guy as the other two people from my department.

Oh and Seattle is expensive.. so moving their for a job that brings in 94k is like getting a job for 67k here.. boooo Seattle.