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Name: Kyle
Gender: Male
Interests: God, talking, the occasional full-night's sleep.
Expertise: Church history, theology, joint locks, football, surviving hectic schedules.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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AIM:  muderisahottie
Member Since:
11/10/2003
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| So, CPU tanked again. Here I am at 12:15, finally done getting it seaworthy again. This time I had nothing to do with the crash. I promise. On the bright side, I did get hooked back up with the original 40 GB HDD. It's a relic, but I'm not putting it out to pasture just yet. Plus, amidst all of my downloading, I ran across this comedy gem:
In other news, in case you haven't heard, the heretofore undefeated Indianapolis Colts lost Sunday. To the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, those Dallas Cowboys. You know, the ones led by Tony Romo? What, you've never heard of him? He did go to Eastern Illinois; the Cowboys must not be all bad. So, that makes YOUR HOMETOWN CHICAGO BEARS!!! the best team in the league. Again. Don't be hatin'.
Finally got in some pre-marital counseling, 9 months into the marriage. It was a blast, actually. The trick is to act on what I know needs to change.
Anyhoo, happy mid-terms! Happy Thanksgiving! Don't nobody end up in the burn ward from frying a turkey, okay? And Nate, do yourself a favor; START YOUR EXEGESES NOW! Love you guys. Tell my folks happy 40th if you see them; it happened over the weekend.
- Homefield-Advantage-Throughout-the-Playoffs K
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| You know, I love the Nintendo Revolution as much as the next niche gamer. But I must say, I am no great fan of controllers obscuring my buddies' icons on comments and the like. Just seems kind of dumb to put "Wii" next to everybody's pics. Is that supposed to make me want to buy the system any more? Am I supposed to associate the Nintendo Revolution as the platform of choice for people on Xanga? Does that make any sense to anyone?
Anyhoo, shameless and mildly irritating advertising aside, I'm juiced about the Revolution. As a person who has tired of the passivity of video games, I feel that Nintendo has their finger on the pulse of their would-be market. Sitting around is boring. Dance Dance is successful because it requires movement, exertion, investment. So the Revolution is my next-gen choice.
Got to go -- better things tempt me away . . .
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| Been a while, huh? Well, tomorrow is my last day at work. Mackinac Island is all but closed for the next five months. Time to kick the job hunt into overdrive, not that there's much to find in Michigan nowadays. For those of you that haven't had the pleasure, Michigan is last out of 50 states in job growth and unemployment rates. I'll be lucky to be flipping burgers inside of two weeks. But I need to find one within a month, or it will be Ramen noodles and collections calls, if you catch my drift.
In other news, trusty ol' computer is back in business. Got the dreaded r?ndll.exe virus (it's a nasty one). Couldn't shake it, so I had to format. Switched over to a smaller hard drive for essential files, since my old one's pushing eight years old. As I write, I'm downloading all those fun must-have freeware utilities: Zone Alarm, Spybot, Hijack This, Firefox, AVG, Open Office, Flash, Java, Winamp, WinRAR, the works. Praise God this stuff's free. Downloading the new GeForce drivers, too; been without Madden too long (Aaron, you know what I mean).
On the homefront, things are looking up, contingent on me finding a job. Mary and I are dreaming of her staying at home with Connor, tutoring part-time, doing school as we can afford it, and me locking down a job that pays the bills. Those of you that aren't out of college yet cannot appreciate the wistfulness of this dream. I'm hearing the symphonic background music, now.
Career news of note: I'm being steered towards a local license by district assembly. As Aaron and Mary may have related, Dr. Rev. Wayne Brown, D.S. is eager to get fresh meat out here at Northern Michigan District. I talked to Leth when I was down at Olivet, and I'm really excited about the opportunities. Only rub is the whole Master's and Doctorate thing; but it's not like I'm pursuing those at a breakneck pace at the moment.
What else? Marriage is hard. Not to discourage the lovebirds out there, but good God Almighty, I'm still trying to figure out how to make it work. It reminds me of a Plumb song (Nevermind the gender):
She keeps running into herself / Hoping to find somebody else
She keeps running into herself / Hoping that she'll get out of wonderland . . .
She keeps running into herself / Hoping to find somebody else
She keeps running into herself / Hoping that she'll find somebody better
I love you guys. Really, I do. Keep truckin'.
- K
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| Today at work, I learned that I'm hosting a spunky Russian friend of ours for the night. This evening, our ferry departure was delayed on account of an unforeseen fireworks show. Upon arrival at the mainland, we were greeted by a parade of honking, tricked-out eighteen wheelers at least five miles long (no exaggeration; the motorcade stretched at least the total length of the Mackinac Bridge). We had to walk to our cityside stores to make the nightly deposit, and then *gasp* left the city in short order, despite seemingly endless gridlock.
So continues my surreal life . . .
-Inexplicable K
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| So, I had a dream last night. "Goatee" Justin, Rylando, A-ron,
"Magical" Trevor, an unknown girl (Jess, I think; could have been
Bethers), and I were (playing as/with) 3" G. I. Joe action figures
travelling through a cardboard, vinyl, and plastic dungeon reminiscent
of a frozen Castle Greyskull. Everyone had multiple characters
(Including Roadblock, Lifeline, Blizzard?, Snow Job, Stalker, Tunnel
Rat, Barbecue, Quick Kick, Jinx, and Scarlett?), and we were
infiltrating the compound to root out Ice Man (purportedly a "Rogue
Joe"). Whether this was Ice Man from Mega Man I, the X-Men, or someone
else, I don't know. This much was clear: Skeletor was working with
him. As we got deeper into the shifting castle full of secret
passages, Hades from Disney's Hercules (the only animated portion of
the dream, barring the Dark Elf from Tower of Doom) began throwing
obstacles our way. It was a strange sort of cinematic design,
switching between pitched action-figure action and a conference room
wherein the actors discussed strategy (and Rylando raved about the
Terps). The alarm went off before I found out too much more, but I
suspect that the motorcycle bad guy leader from the Go-Bots would have
made an appearance before long.
Wierd, huh? All it was missing was Popples. And Destro.
-Early Ninties-tastic K
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The Transformers - The Movie
By Norman Alden, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Arthur Burghardt, Corey Burton, Roger C. Carmel, Victor Caroli, Regis Cordic, Scatman Crothers, Peter Cullen, BJ Davis, Paul Eiding, Walker Edmiston, Ed Gilbert, Dan Gilvezan, Eric Idle, Buster Jones, Stan Jones (II)
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