One day at work, I had the brilliant idea of pointing my webcam at the TV so I could watch the Rockies games when I wasn’t at home. In essence, the poor man’s Slingbox!

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I had a problem with three pairs of my jeans… they stunk! They had a serious funk to them, stale as if I had left them in the washing machine too long. I tried many times to rewash them, but nothing worked. It was like they were perma-stinky. So, I did some research on the Internet and here’s what worked for me.

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I took these pictures with my phone, so the quality is not the best. My Mom says there is a “face” behind the pacman pumpkin. I can kinda see it, but I don’t know what it is.

I got a lot of compliments on the pumpkins from the trick-or-treaters; I just told them, “All I did was follow the patterns!” I think they came out pretty good too. The pattern for Punkula was actually spelled Puncula, but I like Punkula better, so that’s what I’m going with!

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Holy crap! I finished 21st out of 759 people! I finished in the top 3%! I usually finish races in the top 50%! And I’m happy with that too. I’m not in stellar shape either, which is shown by my nine minute mile average! But I think there were more walkers than runners and also I think what happened was that some people went the wrong way! There was a T in the road and some people went left and you were supposed to go right! I don’t know how many people went the wrong way, but right after the T, there was a bend in the road and we could see everyone who was in front of us and there weren’t that many people.

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If you have a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone, here’s how to update to the latest iPhone firmware (2.1) without losing your custom apps, contacts, photos, etc. etc.

http://sleepers.net/news/2008/09/19/how-to-upgrade-in-itunes/

I followed these instructions and it worked like a charm. The only thing I noticed was that after I did the restore, my apps were out of order, but no big deal.

I lost 4.4 lbs playing hockey tonight. I had back-to-back games. The first game was at 8:30 PM; it was a playoff ice game We won 7-6, I had 4 assists. After that I had to drive to the Bladium for my second, inline game at 11:00 PM. We lost 5-3, I had 1 goal.

Before game 1, in the locker room.

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