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1 June 2002
OK. It's a great week for maps. I found this nifty 1920
NC/SC Texaco map. Two in one week. If you haven't noticed, I
like road maps. Yea, I'm a geek if you don't
know that already. This one has a route planned out on it.
One which I imagine encompasses a family or a couple traveling down the
East Coast in 1920 in a car from that era, stopping in places that don't
exist anymore and most likely, the people don't exist anymore
either. It's kinda like looking at an antique and imagining the
people and activity that once surrounded it.
It's also June Bugs time again on Cartoon Network so I may not be able to
be pulled away from the TV anytime soon. That a lie. I've
been having great fun pulling nails and screws from the lumber we
salvaged from a neighbor's garbage. Don't laugh. I bet we
got a couple of hundred dollars worth of quality lumber. Now I
just need to build something. No, now the temperature needs to
fall below 200 degrees. God, I'm becoming a puss.
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1 June 2002...Later
Who would have thought I could still do a flip off this thing without
throwing up even. That concludes my outside activity for
today. It's not even a Jeep day. Now I will set my VCR to
record Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman on
TV Land and think
about dinner. Before then though, I will tell you this. I
have never talked to Becky before. Yesterday I thought I
might send her an e-mail this weekend. Before I get around to
sending it, I get one from her. Quite strange.
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1 June 2002...Later
I forgot to mention the strange
dreams from last night. Remember, these are written in the
middle of the night or first thing in the morning when I'm not really
awake.
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7 June 2002
Star Wars
Attack of the Clones was great. The only difference was we
waited a few weeks to see it rather than wait in some huge line to sit
in an overly crowded theater for two and a half hours. When Return of the
Jedi came out, we skipped school and waited in a line down the
street all day for tickets so I understand the hype. The first Star Wars,
Episode One that is came out in the day when you could sit through the
movie as many times as you wanted, so we did. I was 11 years old
and when my brother came home from seeing it. He told my mother it
had a robot that was a fag. C-3PO that is. It's weird I guess I knew what
was happening with me back then because I DID NOT like that
remark. I did like the movie.
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7 June 2002...Later
It's me. Thanks David.
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9 June 2002
I visited my folks yesterday and it seems they are doing better than
they have been doing in a long time. My dad is on Paxil or
something like that along with a multitude of vitamins and other
goodies. They are back to working out and my mom is swimming
again. They've had a hell of a winter in many ways and it's good
to see them doing activities again. Today I picked up a new 1971
NC/SC map (not scanned yet) at the flea market and took naked pictures
of one of my friends. I must say it was quite and experience.
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11 June 2002
Being off today, we decided to visit some local museums.
We've lived here more than a year and haven't done so, so it's about
time. I also got my hands on a great birthday present for Duncan
today. It's not until next month so until then, he'll just have to
salivate trying to guess what it is.
And don't forget, Jerry
Falwell still sucks.
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15 June 2002
Finally the weather is nice again. Thursday night ,Friday
morning rather, driving home from work at midnight it was freaking
eighty-five degrees. That didn't keep me from singing at the top
of my lungs Bonnie Tyler's Total
Eclipse Of The Heart. I don't know why I love that song.
Something to do with living in a powder keg giving off sparks.
That line always turns me on.
So you don't die waiting, here is the map I picked up last
week finally scanned for your viewing pleasure. And to
increase your viewing pleasure 400%, go
here. I think I like this one because this is about the time
in my life when I used to go with my dad every other Saturday morning
the Esso station to get his work truck serviced. He put a lot of
miles on his truck every week. I would sit there and play while I
listened to the men talk junk to each other and besides, I could always
get my PEZ refills there and soda out
of the bottle.
The snack that smiles back until you bite their head off.
Yea, that makes all the little kids want to go out and by Goldfish.
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16 June 2002
Graduation later today. Friends and family are coming and Duncan is
cooking banana pudding. For now, I'll share this strange dream.
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16 June 2002... Later
 
 
Graduation was so cool today and I even got a special award,
"Outstanding Student Award". I must say, that made my
freaking day. It's the award that all the instructors vote
on. My family and friends came up and we had a tasty diner before
hand. I haven't had sweetened tea in years but today I had some
and haven't put it down. This may start a downward spiral that I
may never be able to end again.
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22 June 2002
 
Haven't really accomplished anything this week so I guess that's why
there have been no updates. My garden has finally started coming
along, especially we've had no rain. It's been more than a month
since I've even had to cut the grass and it looks like I shouldn't have
to do it anytime soon either. However, we should be eating squash
anytime soon. Should we fry it, stew it, or bake it? My okra
doesn't look so promising but I said the same thing about my squash last
week. Cucumbers are also hunting out a place to bloom.
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23 June 2002
OK, I spent the first half hour this morning trying to figure out how
if yesterday was Sunday, how did we get mail. OK, so today is
Sunday. Ann Landers died yesterday. I love reading the
paper so I usually come upon her column and read it. Her advice
was usually good but if someone disagreed with her, she would usually
cave. I know she hasn't actually written her own column in years,
but she always had the final say so. I wonder if her column will
continue with her name, die, or change personalities. I know
someone has been just waiting for her to die so they could get that
spot.
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23 June 2002...Later
You made me laugh Luanne.
We went to Charlotte today. We've lived here 14
months and this was the first time I've felt really homesick. We
did a lot of visiting all over town and drove around for a while.
The main drag, Independence Blvd., is being
gradually turned into an expressway and they've torn down a lot of
buildings and trees. All the buildings I've driven by thousands of
times and have been in I would say all of them. I understand the
infrastructure is needed but I don't always understand why it has to be
so invasive. I hope it will be better. One thing's for sure,
It'll never be the same.
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26 June 2002
After more than a month of no rain, mandatory water restrictions were
put in place for our fair city. No more filling swimming pools, no
car washing, and no washing off of driveways. Lawn watering is on
an even-odd system which makes no sense to me because it won't cut down
on lawn watering for the most part, just distribute it around. For
now, the sky looks pretty ominous. Maybe we'll see some shortly
and avoid the $500 fine.
Right now, I love The Broken Hearts
Club and I always Carly Simon.
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26 June 2002...Later
WOW! An inch of rain so far and maybe some more to
come. Of course, all this while the landlord was working on
the roof and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was ruling that The Pledge of Allegiance could not be
recited in schools. Although I didn't even think they said it in
school anymore, I'm not sure I see the problem. God is embedded
into this society. By using money, we are saying In God We
Trust. There are still many towns across the country that open
government meetings with a prayer. A prayer was said at my
nephew's graduation last month and many athletic program's lead team
prayers in order to win a freaking game. I actually pray quite
often by myself so it's not that I have a problem with that so much as
people bringing people together at a publicly run facility and using
that as an opportunity to stand behind a pulpit. Take the
"under God" phase out that was added to the pledge in
1954 and teach kids what the pledge means. It was actually years
before I learned that pledgeallegiance wasn't one word because no one
ever taught me what it meant.
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it
stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all.
Now I must lay down because I just ate my
first batch of fried squash I grew in the backyard.
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