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Thursday, January 15

Nothing New Under The Sun

Hmph. Apparently I'm not as clever as I'd like to think: in trying to riff on a lifetime of the One True Joke, I might've been unwittingly shilling for a few musical groups.

Who knows, maybe some fans will wander in by mistake. I sure could use the company.

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Thursday, January 08

A Seat At The Big People's (Round) Table

If my travels around the Internet have taught me anything, it's that I'm much better at reading blogs than I'll ever be at actually keeping one up. Good grief...Labor Day?

Ah well, new year, fresh start and all that. So what better way to get going than horning in amongst some much better bloggers? You know, the sort with readers and pretty pages and...well, actual content (which might explain the readers).

I came across Shamus Young's contribution to the January round table at Man Bytes Blog, and like a silly ape, thought, Hey, that sounds interesting. I think I could do something with that.

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Tuesday, September 02

Funny Money

So I got a nice surprise for Labor Day: some bozo got my debit card number and went to town at Target (apparently I can't attract the better class of identity thief) over the weekend. I got to split most of today between the sheriff's office and the credit union, which is where I got my second fiscal shocker in as many days:

ME: (reluctantly) Um...is this balance right? It looks a little...well, higher than it should.

CLERK: Who knows, maybe whoever did this put some money in while they were at it.

[cue laugh track]

Not the case, sadly enough, but the truth was nearly as strange. It turns out the Air Force hasn't paid me a clothing allowance in something like four years. Somebody somewhere realized it, added up the totals and dumped a couple thousand dollars of back pay into my account without so much as a by-the-way.

Uh...OK. Thanks, guys.

Truth be told, I'm not sure who the bigger goof is here - them for letting it go on so long, or me for the same reason.

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