We’re really close on a name selection for the new kitten, but we will take suggestions until the day we get her. To be honest, it will have to be a really great name to beat out our current choice.
The front runner for her name is George. Her nickname will be Peanut.
The source for the name is below the fold:
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I was out buying electronics last night and only saw a few minutes of the game on TV. I did listen to some of it on the radio though.
Sharks lost. Again.
The series ends tonight with the sweep. With any kind of luck Ron Wilson and staff get their walking papers. I’m not to sure Doug Wilson should be keeping his job, either.
Quotes from XM204 this morning: “San Jose is a joke” and “I don’t care what Jeremy Roenick says, the Sharks look defeated.”
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We decided to do some TV upgrading so we bought a small LCD television for the bedroom. The plan was to use it downstairs in the family room until we get our new TV stand (on order), then we’d spend the tax refund on a larger plasma and move the LCD upstairs. I’d also get a new DirecTV HD DVR installed at my leisure within the next week or two. So far so good. I picked up the TV yesterday and was going to hook it up today.
So far, so good. This morning I get an email from Janet telling me that the family room can only receive The Food Network, The Weather Channel, and the Mormon channel. This sounded exactly like the problem we had nearly a year and a half ago in the hockey room. I told Janet to do the standard repair first: unplug the receiver, wait a minute or two, plug it back in, and wait for the reboot. No joy, the receiver is nothing more than a paper weight now.
I called DirecTV to get a new HD DVR installed and they’ll be out tomorrow, along with a new 5 LNB antenna and another receiver for the bedroom. Ordering it was a breeze and overall I’m pretty happy with DirecTV’s customer service. The person I talked to seemed genuinely apologetic that I wouldn’t get the new hardware until tomorrow. I was expecting that I’d have to wait until the end of the week, or even later.
We should probably keep an eye on the receiver in the wine room. We’ve been using that one to feed a VCR so we can watch shows at our leisure. It’s the same brand, make, and model as the two that failed (they’re Hughes HBH-SA’s) but it’s a receiver I purchased separately after the other two were installed.
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This is the last article I wrote as Mike Perative.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, or DEA announced this week that they have identified a new substance as a “gateway drug.” “Gateway drugs” is a term for drugs that supposedly lead to abuse of other substances. Marijuana, for instance, was considered by many to be a gateway to harder drugs.
“We used to think that marijuana was a gateway drug for harder drugs like heroin and cocaine,” said DEA spokesman Dr. John Koop. “Then we realized that even though users of hard drugs did often use pot, marijuana users often use alcohol. We felt we were on to something.”
“Further analysis showed that people who use alcohol, marijuana, and harder drugs also drank milk as children,” revealed Koop. “Since hard drug users often drank milk when they were growing up, it became obvious to us that milk was the gateway drug that we had been looking for. Stop the consumption of milk, and you stop the terrible chain that leads to a life of drug abuse.”
Farmers in Wisconsin were stunned by the news. “I was shocked, I have to tell you,” said Fred Douglas, a Wisconsin dairy farmer. “I never knew that we were contributing to the nation’s drug problem. But when I sat down and really looked at Dr. Koop’s analysis I had to admit that he was on to something.”
“This study is going to have far-reaching implications,” said Arnold Ziffle of Madison Wisconsin. “Some of the milk can be converted to cheese and ice cream but if we eliminate the sale of milk we’re going to have too many dairy cows. Most of those are probably going to be sent to abattoirs and turned into hamburger. Expect the price of beef to fall dramatically.
Attorney General John Ashcroft is expected to recommend that the minimum penalty for possessing milk be 10 years at hard labor. Transporting milk with the intent to sell is expected to be 25 years to life in prison.
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Congratulations to the Dallas Stars for advancing to the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Okay, I know that technically they have to win 2 more games. That won’t be a problem. Tonight’s game was pathetic.
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