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You may remember a short blog entry from last March about the occassionally interesting vandalism in the bathroom stall near my office. I get a small sense of pleasure whenever I need to use the WC and I find myself gazing upon some new words of wisdom. This week was a busy one in the world of toilet stall publishing. Sometime last week 2 Canadian flags appeared, crudely doodled, one on the sheet metal partition to my right, the other on the painted brick to my other right.
"Interesting," I thought to myself, "they both got the right amount of points on the maple leaf..."
Then early this week, as I pondered the dwindling roll of TP...strange for a Monday morning, I noticed the seemingly rhetorical question scribbled beside the flag doodle on my right, "WHAT IS IT ABOUT TAKING A S&!T THAT INSPIRES PATRIOTIC FANATACISM?" (I have left out the actual obscenity, for your protection of course.)
Tuesday morning brought the answer to that question..."think about it...what else comes to mind when you think about our government?" the 'author' went on to pen something about being full of something, and something about money and a toilet and flushing...
Wednesday brought an Anarchy symbol smeared over the Canadian flag accompanied by "PATRIOTISM IS VIOLENCE" and off to the side, "NO GOVERNMENT NO BORDERS NO WAR" (for some reason the unknown artist had also left "NO POLICE" and then rubbed those 2 words out)
On Thursday I found that a slightly calmer journalist added this rebuttal, "This is not a solution" (referring to the Anarchy symbol and the "No Government" message) and "No, human nature promotes violence" (in reference to the all caps PATRIOTISM IS VIOLENCE).
Friday afternoon revealed the intended diligence of the night janitor; the old skool blog had been smeared and was slightly faded, although not enough to provide evidence of a good effort. As I sat there, considering my long weekend plans, I couldn't help but assume that the fellow who hastily mispelled 'fanaticism' in all caps last Tuesday likely didn't wash his hands on the way out either.

Happy Birthday Wally! You don't look a day over 63! Love ya!

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I had an idea last week. At the time, I thought it was a good one. They always start that way. It's still too early to tell, some ideas go bad right away, others take a while to age...then rot...kind of like cheese. Even the ones that grow the good kind of mold are eventually inedible. I guess that's arguable. Back to my idea. You're reading this, so you know that I think blogging is cool. Actually, I think it's good for you, kind of like cheese, but in a different way. I also think chatting with a group of like minded people is cool. I ALSO think food is cool, especially cheese, but I digress. My idea, which is aging like a young brie as I type this, involves combining blogging, like-minded conversation, and food.
We all eat...you can't deny that...at least not for long...but we all enjoy eating in different ways and to varying degrees. I, for example enjoy eating immensely. Almost too much. I enjoy cooking food, eating food, talking about food, talking about cooking food, and talking about eating food that I, or someone else cooked. My idea, that I still think is a good one, is to set up a blog and invite friends that I think would contribute in their own way to join me in blogging about food and eating and related topics. I will call it good eats: and the motto at the top of the page will read:
...sometimes food is good because it's good FOR you, sometimes it's because it TASTES so good...sometimes it's good because it's free, and sometimes you just want to tell everyone how MUCH you ate..." because that's what it will be about. That's my good idea. It must be a good idea, because it has the word 'good' in the title...

plus Alberta and Ontario...
(I've shipped to Minnesota 3 times, I guess ebay is pretty popular there...)

Here's an exciting article from the newswire...
...and one reason that I'm not too concerned about being the only kid on the block that hasn't felt a need to reachable by anyone, anywhere. What? I won't be able to phone home and check my messages for 20 MINUTES!!!?! How will I ever survive. find out what the heck I'm talking about here: Hackers, Virus Writers Target Mobile Phones
I especially like the part about turning your cell phone into a bugging device.
Although seeing my fridge throw food in the microwave would be pretty cool too.

29 words that Z says that his mom and I understand:
mom*, dad*, nana*, papa*, Erin/Aaron, ball*, no*, bubble*, Shrek, cheese, bath, dark, bus, cracker, hat, hi*, bye*, up, help, thank-you, water*, quack*, car, woof*, meow*, fish, boo*, George, hot.
*words that Z says that most other people understand too

I recently discovered in one of Z's "Bright and Early Board Books" what I think might be the first blog, or should I say blogg? This picture from Dr. Suess's Surprising Word Book, "The Shape of Me and Other Stuff" seems to allude to the original 'blogg' as being a long-necked, broad snooted biped. I'm not one to argue with Dr. Suess, but I think if a blog were a creature, it would probably be more of a pale-faced, stubble-wearing, cola-drinking biped. This book was published in 1973, that might explain it...