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the neighbor kid — 4 years old and super cute — has finally been trained not to ring the doorbell 4 or 6 times before we can even get to the door.

only, now he knocks constantly, till you get there.

worse still: he doesn’t take no for an answer.

Kid: CAN (J2) PLAY?
Me: No, Nelson*, sorry, we’re leaving soon.
Kid: BUT WHERE YALL GOIN?
Me: it doesnt matter, Nelson, we’re leaving soon — we’ll be back about 8 and (J2) can play then.
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: Like I just said — we’re leaving, and (J2) will be back later.
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: *sigh*
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: Good bye, Nelson.
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: I will see you later, okay kiddo?
Kid: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Me: *shuts door*
Kid, yelling through door: BUT WHERE YOU GOIN?
Kid, yelling through door: MR CHRIS?
Kid, yelling through door: CAN (J2) PLAY?

*not his real name

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so, whenever we go to pizza king, J2 always wants a couple quarters, so that he can play some music on the “juice box”

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…shoot “darks”, according to J2

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so, that’s what J2 yells, instead of “open sesame” when we approach an automatically opening door.

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so, once, when he lived in arizona — a place so hot that they think 90 degrees f is “kinda nice out” — he was leaving his apartment with xbox under his arm, on his way to a LAN party.

(yes, he now works in IT)

anyway, outside his apartment, in the hallway, was an evangelist, a young one.

Kid in White TShirt: Is that an XBOX?
Jason: Yes.
Kid: Cool.
Jason: Thanks.
Kid: You know what else is cool?
Jason: *blink*
Kid: The Book of Mormon

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so i’m on line at the gas station, waiting to pre pay, and this 6 foot 7 black dood in a brown velvet track suit comes in, talking loudly on his cell phone

LISTEN MAN, I TOLD YOU — YOU CAN DO DAT SHIT, BUT DO NOT GET CAUGHT

I BE FUCKING ALL MY GIRL’S GUY FRIENDS, AND I AIN’T NEVER BEEN CAUGHT, CAUSE I ALWAYS RIDE OUT TO THE WEST SIDE TO DO IT

*blink*

all 10 of us in the place got real quiet at that point

he then goes on

YOU SHOULD READ MY BOOK, MAN, IT’LL TEACH YOU HOW TO DO THAT BUT NOT GET CAUGHT, LIKE I SAID

WON’T BE FRONT’IN OR NUFFIN

i paid and left

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`They have trouble making decisions,’ sneered GrossBookSistah’s opening sentence. ‘They have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own … their anxious indecision creates a kind of ominous fog around them.’
GrossBookSistah stopped just short of accusing Generation X of hating rainbows. The article managed to throw us a couple of bones, complimenting our ‘realism’ and ‘good intentions,’ but GrossBookSistah’s meager praise came across as a transparent attempt to provide ‘balance’ in an article that essentially labeled Generation X as being pathetic.

Normally, I’d be content to let sleeping dogs lie—it has been nearly two decades, after all, since ‘Twentysomething’ was published. But an onslaught of press praising Millennials for the very things my generation was despised for has begun to emerge. The double standards have opened old wounds.

Features : Radar Online : Generation Slap

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These are listed in game order

1. N. Carolina
2. Indiana
3. Notre Dame
4. Washton St
5. Oklahoma
6. Louisville
7. Butler
8. American
9. Kansas
10. Kent St
11. Clemson
12. Vanderbilt
13. USC
14. Wisconsin
15. Davidson
16. Georgetown
17. Memphis
18. Miss. St
19. Michigan St
20. Pittsburgh
21. Marquette
22. Stanford
23. St Marys
24. Texas
25. UCLA
26. BYU
27. Drake
28. Connecticut
29. Purdue
30. Xavier
31. Arizona
32. Belmont
33. N. Carolina
34. Notre Dame
35. Louisville
36. Butler
37. Kansas
38. Clemson
39. Wisconsin
40. Georgetown
41. Memphis
42. Michigan St
43. Stanford
44. Texas
45. UCLA
46. Drake
47. Purdue
48. Arizona
49. Notre Dame
50. Butler
51. Kansas
52. Georgetown
53. Memphis
54. Stanford
55. UCLA
56. Purdue
57. Butler
58. Kansas
59. Stanford
60. UCLA
61. Kansas
62. Stanford
63. Stanford
64. Tie Breaker: 112 points

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i just ordered new contacts, and i am stoked.

i miss being able to see and wear sunglasses.

horray!

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and i am ready to never have winter again.

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it is 17° f out and there are 14 MPH winds.

that’s way colder than i wanna ride home in.

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it’s freaking me out.

i know it happens, but you never expect one of your best friends to have a stroke.

not at this age.

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so i just learned that one of my very best friends in the world has had at least one stroke in the past couple days, perhaps two.

if any of you know brad and haven’t heard details, email me or give me a call and i’ll update you.

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today, after we went to the children’s museum, we were not quite ready to go right home and have dinner yet (J1 made sushi! yay!) so we rode the robot train.

i had never ridden the robot train, and i must say i was impressed.

it has a nice warm waiting area with nice seating and CNN on HD tv.

if i was a hobo, i’d totally hang out there when it’s really cold.

then, the train showed up and we got on it, and true to its name, it’s a robot.

it has no driver.

it’s an empty train with no controls.

it DOES have an “in case of emergency” button, next to a little speaker box that, i must assume, is able to prevent rape or something.

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