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Day: 6
Status: Numb
Result: 90
Earnings: $6,000
Days Remaining: 54

What the fuck list am I on??

A phone message for me at work relayed by my partner:

I just have to share this with everyone, cuz it's funny...

Judy Roger called from the NRCC
She represents Congressman Tom Reynolds.
Her number is 800-942-3665

She called inviting Mr. cah-PREE-o to a fundraising dinner for President Bush.

I told her that I'd be sure Mike called her back.

Yeah.

Right.

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I wrote this four and a half years ago. I'm posting it here because it's true again today. i'm wondering now if I learned anything at all in that time, or whether I'll be reposting this again in another four and a half years.

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There is a world of dreams that exists just beyond my reach.

Fragments of hope drift slowly down to me from a sky full of infinite possibility. Most of them pass me by, most of them fall away to whatever dark place dreams settle into. Once in a very long while, I manage to snatch one as it flutters past - and I wake with a small memory of that world so far away from what is real.

It may be for the best that I don't remember all of my dreams. I am forced to appreciate the meager bits I am able to scrounge, I must make feasts of bread crumbs. It is sometimes easier to do this than it seems. Sometimes the dreams are like sweet chocolates, and I melt them slowly in my mouth, trying to savor them as long as I can.

But then there are the dreams of things that can never be - those are the bitterest pills. Yet I cannot stop them; and they are the ones I catch most often. There is no way to describe the taste of regret.

We are cruelest to ourselves, those who dare to dream...

New laptop advice

I'm in the market for a new laptop in the next 14 days. My budget is hovering around $1000.00, and I want to have integrated wireless networking. Those are really my only requirements... I can get an Inspiron 1150 from Dell for just under my budget, but it won't ship until 4/28. I was also looking at an HP Compaq nx5000, and I can get that shipped in less than a week, but it's a bit over budget.

Anyone have any recommendations?

A meme is Samuel Johnson

"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.