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HaPpY BiRtHdAy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippie!!!!! Hooray!!!!!! Partypartyparty!

^ Got to use snowshoes for the first time! And being with family was the best part even if there were presents involved too! P.S. Do not attempt sudden u-turns in Snow Shoes LOL!

I got the DVD, put it in and promptly almost forgot to pack for our Christmas trip! Got all entranced by the performance, and so envious (in a good way) of everyone who got to be there in person Musta been quite the experience!

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4BL31A20081222 BEIJING (Reuters) - A pig that survived 36 days buried in the rubble of May's massive Sichuan earthquake has been voted China's favorite animal, but the attention has made him fat, lazy and bad-tempered, state media said. The hog, trapped in a sty after the 7.9 magnitude quake, was bought by a local businessman who was moved by its ordeal and named "Zhu Jianqiang," or "Strong Pig." It survived by eating charcoal and drinking rainwater. Now it has been voted top of an online poll of animals "who moved China" this year, the weekend edition of the China Daily said. Other top animals included a dog that guarded its elderly owner when he was sick and accompanied him to hospital, and a cat that almost died of grief when its partner was run over by a car. The pig "vividly illustrated the spirit of never giving up," the report cited the webmasters who ran the poll as saying. People come from all over to see the pig at its new home in a museum, the newspaper said, but it was becoming increasingly spoiled and ungrateful. "It's gotten fatter and lazier by the day," it quoted staff as saying. "We used to take it out for a walk every morning and afternoon, but it's too lazy -- and too fat -- to do it." And the pig is getting fed up with visitors, after initially being quite friendly. "Now it just blocks the door to its bedroom when there are too many visitors outside. It's been increasingly difficult for us to convince it to open the door," the report said. Personally I just think the pig is grumpy because some asshole burried it for 36 days! Wouldn't that kinda tick you off? LOL! Anyhow, I wonder what they do to uppity pigs in Sichuan? Hope the celebrity pig has a good agent!

Put on my pants

Im not worthy!

Happy Birthday bumpkin!!!!

Merry Christmas Mud!

I don't blame the artists for objecting to this kind of usage of their works.... Nobel was rather disturbed at how his invention was used too...... As for how different generations torment each other with music..... I recall once how my dad and I were fighting - this was back when I was in High School - and he was driving and 'Another Brick In The Wall' came on the cassette I had placed into the car's player earlier. When it got to the 'We don't need no education' part my dad reached his snapping point and reached over, popped out the tape, and flung it out the open window LOL! I was rather put off at the time, and when I finally got to where the tape landed it was just a ball of streaming tape and shards of broken plastic... I guess my dad couldn't wrap his brain around Pink Floyd at that particular moment, but maybe it was all payback for making me listen to that weird classical music composed in that bizarre atonal scale!

Never expected Bob Weir to show up and play with the Black Crowes on Saturday night! That was very fun! Yesterday it was the Dickens Faire.... Singing, costumes, and lots of bawdy women. A great way to start the holidays! (Ill try to post an image or two once we can roust the webmaster out of bed LOL!)

I just noticed that the spokesman from Trojan Condoms was named Johnson.

Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/58209.html Before I quote the article I want to add a disclaimer that our more young and sensitive Farmers may want to heed: The following article discusses sex. If you are a minor, you should know that sex is icky, and you should avoid it at all costs until marriage, where upon you will briefly enjoy lots of it followed by a very long dry spell (or so many people tell me). So you really have no further need to read this article and may go back to text messaging, illegally copying music and dying your hair bright green. For the rest of us here is the article. Be careful out there Farmers! "The Christmas-New Year's period produces a year-high spike in sexual activity and conceptions in the United States, according to biorhythm researchers and makers of sex-related products. [edit: biorhythm researchers and makers of sex-related products? I want that on my business card!] They attribute the increase to holiday leisure and New Year's resolutions to have children. New Year's irresolution fueled by alcohol and partying is another contributing factor. "Right before New Year's Eve is our highest sales peak," said David Johnson, group product manager for Trojan brand condoms, the leading U.S. seller. As expected, the holiday urge surge also expresses itself as a peak in U.S. births in September, according to David Lam of the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center in Ann Arbor. Holiday intimacies aren't just an American rite, according to Gabriele Doblhammer of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Heavy Christmas-New Year's sex "is characteristic of all Christian cultures in which it has been evaluated," she and co-researcher Joseph Lee Rogers found. A quartet of British public health researchers went so far as to liken the Christmas-New Year's period to a "festival on fertility" in a 1999 article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Such festivals, they wrote, are "associated with increased opportunities for socializing and a generally more hedonistic approach to life." Recognizing the risks entailed, the British Health Education Authority once ran a condom ad before New Year's with the tag line: "Just in case old acquaintances aren't quite forgot." What about the notion that spring is the season of love? Among partners chronically pressed for time, intimacy flourishes in the rare leisure of three-day weekends, analysts said. Accordingly, the long July Fourth, Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends also produce spikes in condom sales, Trojan's Johnson said. So does the run-up to Valentine's Day, he added. "And before Mother's Day, there's a small peak." The centrality of holidays to the timing of conceptions in the United States is relatively new, Till Roenneberg, of the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University of Munich, said in an interview. Until the 1930s, fluctuations in temperature, sunlight and humidity yielded much larger seasonal fluctuations in U.S. conception, he said. They still do in less developed countries. In industrialized countries, Roenneberg continued, people increasingly are shielded from sunlight by indoor work and from temperature and humidity variations by heating and air conditioning. Once the natural fluctuations, which influence human sperm and egg quality, are muted, lesser factors such as three-day weekends become visible, he said. Roenneberg's findings derive from studies of birth date trends in 166 regions of the globe. The data come from as early as 1669 and total more than 3,000 years of human experience."

I think Romeo Delta should hold a contest: "Help Dave Pick The Hat He Will Wear On The Next Romeo Delta CD" I guess it could go something like this: Participating fans bring a hat for Dave to the next gig, and at the end of the contest the band selects from the hats donated by fans and picks Dave's next hat! (At this very moment, some fans are now raiding their kid's Ken doll collections to find the smallest possible head wear.)

The Archer Tom Petty shoots arrows at the bass drum - 2006 tour.

Dale, do you have any suggestions or recommendations for parking near Cozys?

I have a male co-worker named 'Rufi'. It must make things interesting in the singles bars since 'Rufi' is also a slang for a date rape drug. I can see it now - He is sitting at the bar and a young attractive lady comes up and asks his name. He answers and she runs off screaming.......

Heck, the album art alone is worth the cost of the CD (Well, that one particular photo anyhow LOL!) Great CD - I think its very cool how people are looking out for these guys, not wanting to take extra CDs etc. Bravo Farmers!

Just tried to make dinner reservations and got told they are booked. So much for waiting till 3 weeks before the gig LOL!

^ Use the Calculus Luke! The Calculus will be with you!

In my best Spicoli voice, "People on Lutes should not drive!" Beautiful

While we are on the topic of unfortunate names..... I used to work near LA International Airport (LAX), and an FAA office happened to be located nearby. I would pass that office all the time going to / from my office. On its door was written "LAX Flight Standards" It was supposed to be a good thing but man, didn't ANYONE realize that was a really bad name? LOL!

Please record Above Water. Its like Crystal River's jazzy jammy twin. 14 minutes of pure bliss.

In elementary school I knew a guy named David Long. He wasn't very tall but we called him Long for short. True story.

LOL! I think this kind of issue is more common when cast rims are used (as opposed to stamped steel rims). The aluminum alloy casting can be a little porous and have itty bitty holes that allow the tire to leak down. I had a slow leaker on my ford Truck but never did my suggested fix, however I did apply that fix to wheels on an old mustang I was restoring. Worked great and I had the cleanest rims on the planet (even if no one could appreciate it because they were covered by tires!) We learned not to glass bead the part of the rim that the tire mounts to after doing that and discovering that the tires tended to spin on the rim under extreme acceleration during drag races. Never had a tire pop off but I think that would be a possibility.

Sometimes there can be a pin-hole in the rim itself. I have run into this with older cars - we have often solved the problem by taking the tire off the wheel, glass beading the rim (the part that the tire covers, but NOT the surface where the tire contacts the rim), and then applying a coat of paint to seal any pin-holes. After the paint drys you re-mount the tire and balance the wheel and hope for the best! I don't think that tire seal stuff makes a good long term solution because it can unbalance the wheel and that stuff degrades over time (not being intended for a permanent repair)