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                                   Ketchup

My cell phone rang.

I went to answer it, but I couldn't read it. At first, I thought the screen
was upside-down, but when I rotated the phone, the screen was backwards! It
was flipped and reversed. After the phone call, I powercycled the device (by
removing the battery) and it's fine now.

Wierd.

But yes, I'm posting again!

I've been sick since June 29^th with a cold and as typical with me, when I
get a cold, I get a cold. Almost two weeks with gallons of snot, sleep,
liquids and Vitamin C and I'm finally better.

And even had I been posting, it would mostly have consited of entries looking
much like “Still sick. Gallons of snot. Tired. Going back go sleep.”

Though between bouts of unconscienceness, I did manage to collect a few links
I wanted to throw out, so here they are, in no particular order:

Via Instapundit [1] comes The Energy Family [2], a blog about a family trying
to convert their house to run entirely off the grid.

Also via Instapundit [3] comes this report about the lack of tornadoes in
Nebraska and Kansas this year [4] (well, at least until the fifth of July).
This year we've only had one tropical storm so far, unlike last year [5] when
at this time we were at two tropical storms and two hurricanes with a third
hurricane up and coming, so maybe this year will be quiet (although, looking
at the 2004 season [6] the first storm didn't form until the end of July and
that was the year Florida got slammed with four storms).

Anyway.

Via Yet Another Really Great Blog [7] comes … this [8] … and really, I don't
want to spoil the fun, but if you like Star Trek and Star Wars, then you
should get a kick out of the video (and please, do watch it through the end,
it's very amusing—it's got dancing Stormtroopers for crying out loud!).

And finally, via Michael Duff [9] is this David Hasselhoff video [10]
(amusing in as far as it stars his old TV (Television) partner KITT (Knight
Industries Two Thousand) [11]).

I did mention I was sick, right?

With a cold.

Okay.

(Amusingly enough, my boss Smirk called me up to inform me that I had been
neglecting my duty and not updating The Boston Diaries [12] often enough, so
get on it, pronto! And to think, most people are worried about being fired
for blogging [13], not for lack of blogging … )

[1] http://instapundit.com/archives/031330.php
[2] http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog/energyfamily
[3] http://instapundit.com/archives/031247.php
[4] http://www.local6.com/weather/9468760/detail.html
[5] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tracks/2005atl.gif
[6] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tracks/2004atl.gif
[7] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2006/07/and-now-for-something-completely.html
[8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fyargb%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F
[9] http://www.michaelduff.net/
[10] http://www.michaelduff.net/blog/2006/07/enter-hoff.html
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT
[12] https://boston.conman.org/
[13] http://clusty.com/search?query=being+fired+for+blogging&sourceid=Mozilla-search

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