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Poor Al.

Thanks guys and Vicki! I feel truly fortunate to have found such a great place, you all are just awesome. So far, the day has been great. Slept in, now I am headed to have some migas. The plans for today include buying and consuming some good bordeaux along with taking pics at the art car parade and meeting some friends for ritas and fajitas (not necessarily in that order). Should be a good day.

Happy birthday, hope you had a good one!

Good to hear that the growth was benign laxx - melanoma is a very scary thing. I am a moley person and go to the dermatologist twice a year often getting moles biopsied/cut off. Fortunately, they have mostly been benign so far (only one pre-cancerous).

Sweet!

I love the honor code here - means we are not allowed to proctor exams.

Cute pet pics and cool rattler Greg. I wouldn't want that snake in my yard - luckily we just get possums and things like that.

Wow Duggeh, You know a lot of useless *cough* I mean ever so important facts.

Finally decided the only way to get an Apple case was to order one and wait out the "2-3 weeks." Also ordered the Camera Connection Kit while I was at it.

In case you were planning on buying your mother a pair of headphones for Mothers Day: 20% off anything at soundearphones.com until May 11th with coupon code 20MD. Thought about getting myself a pair of RS-1i but talked myself out of it (I think).

Sucks Jin

Nina Nastasia - Dogs

^ouch

I am quite the softie when it come to helping out animals. I would love to have a dog or cat but my husband is allergic to them (and we travel too much which would be unfair to the pet). Al, that is super nice of you! It is too bad we canceled our May trip to Berkeley. We may make it our sometimes this summer - I'll let you know if we do.

Nice pack Al. Right as we were about to eat dinner this evening we saw this cute little dog looking in our house through the front door. Finally found out where the dog lived after some work. We called the number on the tag several times but the owners didn't answer (the address on the tag was not from around here so that didn't help). Found out their last name from the answering machine message and then looked on the Houston property tax records to find someone around here with that last name (there was someone 3 houses down the street). Took the dog over there and all the owners could say was, oh you must have been the people who kept calling. I guess they keep the dog in the back yard and didn't even know he was missing. Jerks. Makes me want to steal their dog from them and give him a better home.

Cool!

Exactly my thought.

Dinny, I think you should get that case and then of course sell me your Apple case. On a serious note, does anyone know where I can get an Apple case without waiting for a month or paying $80. I keep waiting for the cases on Apple's site to say "Ships: Within 24hrs" but the timeline just keeps getting longer. Was 1-2 weeks, now it is 2-3 weeks.

Yeah, it really sucks for Cleveland. They have a lot more to worry about.

Continental is headquartered in Houston. They have about 16,000 employees in Houston. They have a hub in Houston which means direct flights on Continental to almost any major city in the US and many direct flights overseas. With the merger (since they are the smaller airline), Continental will be lost forever as part of United. I assume/hope UA-CO will keep the hub in Houston for access to Latin and South America but I assume that many of the direct flights will become flight with a layover in Denver, etc. If too many the (direct flight) routes are canceled/unscheduled, Houston could lose businesses. Worst case scenario for me: some faculty members spouses (not in academics) need to relocate and hence we lose some good faculty members in our department and/or at Rice. Almost surely, I am being paranoid. Basically, I am just upset because I really do love flying on Continental (good customer service, decent planes, etc.) but have had less than stellar experiences on United the last times I have flown with them. It makes me sad to see them go.

Found out that the United-Continental merger is going to be a go. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK

Me too.

So far I am liking the Timbuk2 bag. My only gripes: I wish there was an outside pocket for my cell phone. Wish it had an option to bypass the Velcro. Wish the fabric were a little more flexible.

Unfortunately, no. I am going to try another shoe store tomorrow. Maybe I will have better luck.

Went out shopping to get shorts and try out the Vibram KSO shoes. All the Vibram shoes in my size were sold out. I tried on 6 pairs of shorts and they all looked horrible. So I went to Micro Center and came home with a Timbuk2 small messenger bag for the ipad instead. Unfortunately, this often seems to be how my clothes shopping ends.