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out of coffee filters / New Year’s resolutions / Tim’s deal | euphonically gassy | doors | meeting Dick on the road | pie at the Blue Plate | signs of the apocalypse / o christmas tree | puttering | delivery from badger cab / do-it-yourself electricity | snoring | a woman in a banana suit / travel to see sean graduate / Old Man’s War | spelling whacky | Ghost Brigade / Old Man’s War | breakfast at Cleveland’s / Andromeda Strain | Lost | Mapping the Farm | overdue books | the clogged bathroom drain | how to shower without a drain | Leon Redbone | trouncing the clog / A Northern Front | bleu cheese | at the coffee shop for peace | the president’s speech | cussing | we bought a dish washer | the bank robbery story | the hour is at hand | installing the dish washer | warming up the car | the appeal of the dish washer | done watching Lost |

Fiasco / Tim, the robber baron | the plan | a few suggestions on how to end the war | cold makes B go WHOOP | below zero temps close school | The Outlaw Sea / Letter to a Christian Nation | the hard wake-up | Tim bought an x-box | the monthly haircut | farmer's market / Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels / Beauty Academy of Kabul / peanut soup | under the kitchen sink / Steve Canyon | Heroes / Studio 60 | matching socks / blue potatoes / -osity | cherry cordials | video gamers | it was so cold ... | under the kitchen sink, again | wheel covers / train geeks convention | Gears of War | The Android's Dream and more books | Sarah Vowell | Reading Lolita In Tehran | cat toys | snowbound | mature video game / the ideal snowblower / a song by Tom T. Hall stuck in my head | blizzard of '07 / building my cubicle | Kavalier & Clay / taxes | Buckaroo Banzai / The Science of Sleep |

Kavalier & Clay / my new cubicle | I don’t look forty-six / I’ve got an office & Auntie Sue doesn’t | breakfast at Cleveland’s | the day in a nutshell | bits & pieces | cold cup of coffee / The Caged Virgin | soda & teeth | a bad day for Barb at the DMV / the death of Captain America | vagina | playing classic video games / The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down | my riff on DST | everyone took their pants off today | wireless non-connections / the Girl Scouts come through | ice fishing | domain name renewal / I Hate Myself And Want To Die | WLT: A Radio Romance | The 300 | cinamon rolls / arcade games, again | still can’t deal with DST / picture me in speedos | baggy trousers | Mister Freeze lives next door / The Big Four | big storm & hail / public bathroom woes | overheard in the office | how to sag properly / the signs of spring | yard work | walking home from work / Babel | remembering something really important / The Enormous Room | a little sore from the walk home still | backlog / The Innocent Man | Judgment At Nuremburg |

what do I do with a balky air brush? | the worst Bee Gees tune ever | what I did before I had a beard / Infidel | Keith Richards & spaceports | Captain Obvious | the message on my voice mail box | Sean’s reading habits | my cat sees dead people / just where are Sean’s privates, anyway? / denouncing my Mom | veganism to meat-eating in three days | winter storm warning / a rez at peppino’s | it snowed today | it snowed again today | dinner at peppino’s / The Omnivore’s Dilemma | rediscovering the rubik’s cube / fouling my own nest | yard work | knock it off, ken / Turing’s Delerium | Project Grizzly | how risque are The Doors? / bad ad / Pulp Fiction | a slow day | not impressed with dinner at the Edo Garden | yard work / Children of Men (the movie) | a ton of bricks / Shakespeare’s books is moving! | lots of rain / Reading The River | the first thing to cleaning the cat pan / more rain / tinkering | typewriters | reverting to the old font | Jack’s Shoes / Pelmeni’s | beating myself with a brick wall | more about the brick wall | the wall’s finished / beer stuff |

old shoes, new shoes | cold weather, no jacket / boiling / a ton of bricks | the beer’s okay! | girl talk | everybody gets up early / I want to be a destruct-o-bot / the hand of god in the grand canyon, poop | a wad of marshmallows / a hopeful to-do list / my actual to-do list | B’s sick / The Winds of War | ninja rats / I’m hell at whacking / the French get to riot after they elect a crappy president / Syler’s not scary | my lousy memory / renting The Shield for Tim / War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning | happy birthday to Pete / beer money / cardinal song / the wrong bottles | Bill Moyers | look at the size of those freaking meatballs! / On Killing / preparing the garden | mother’s day / still looking for bottles / Come Fly With Me | the tater tot bloat | Barb in a towel / invited to church | traveling to D.C. / smashed-in-the-face loudmouthed guy | arrival in D.C. & meeting Sean | our rooms at the hostel / 28 Weeks Later / the Library of Congress | Sean’s graduation from Georgetown | Barb’s B-day / Tim fails to eat the Constitution or spit off the Old Post Office tower | returning to Chicago / making our way home | forgotten passwords / the difference between guys & dolls | texting B on the way home / World War Z | how I muddled through the day without coffee / Tim loves honey-roasted peanuts | road rage from the tailgater / The Children of Men / Choice Cuts / Good Poems For Hard Times / Pan’s Labyrinth | yard work & the hula-hoe | Porco Russo / With A Friend Like Harry | a ton of Memorial Day dinner food / bottling beer / pizza delivery guy | I know my driver’s license number by heart | mumblers / best of the best / suggest a topic for Ben Merens | almost Friday Captain Craig |

nearly a traffic statistic / testy librarian / Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind | pop tarts in the rain / the black hole of housemoving hell / seeing Waitress at the Sundance | the garden gate / the beer’s not ready / The Professional | unclogging a downspout / Japanese Story | Bridge Over Troubled Water | weather warning / break time, overtime, summer time | payday sub sandwich / B puts the Marines on notice, part 1 | parking lot jackpot / Ale Asylum | shelves in the work shop | hay fever hits | waiting on the beer / watering the garden, car / Reservoir Dogs | searching for sherbet / hosing out the drain | why the office printer breaks so often / biking to work | A Beautiful Mind | hot! hot! hot! / beer update | still hot / They Call Me Naughty Lola | father’s day / The Lost Continent | bug antennas for eyebrows / a visit from the Texas O-Folk | grilling brats for our visitors | I can see Mom’s house from Google maps / three beers too many | where I always burp | a trip to the Chain ‘O Lakes | an early-morning paddle | lame coffee | Barb gets an extra day | cooling off / a paddle around Long Lake with Tim | a day in Waupaca | heading home |

vacation’s end syndrome | the fine for no life preserver / check’s in the mail, really / the marines don’t have time for our shit | rained out of the Monona community festival | why’d we have the day off? | more disgusting than speed-eating hot dogs | the first meal I sent back | Summerland | lunch at The Grumpy Troll | Bugs Bunny does opera / English plurals | Six Feet Under / Sea of Thunder / Housekeeping vs. The Dirt | farmer’s market / sushi for lunch | cycling to work / Robot Chicken | dinner | Art Fair on the Square | grilling bluefish | patty pan | John Paul Jones / altered states | slowing down the leadfoot / naked people | Tim’s toe / Barb’s garden / cat’s crap | llamas! | purslane / the Baskerville | closing Star Books / a moon named Frank | out on the deck | A Room Of One’s Own | more books than I can read | Romeo and Juliet | mosquitoed to death / an uncle named Cotton Tuft / the Young Shakespeare Players | a bike ride with Barb / toe shoes | a lazy Sunday | heading into the dog days | a letter from Al Franken |

why flip off the cop? | popping a sweat on State Street / Six Feet Under, season three | an allergy to crappy coffee | a fire in the garage / if I were Mayor Dave | a letter to John Adams / peeling beer bottles / The Bourne Ultimatum | the best laid plans | HOT! | cats & fish / SUV surfing | proposals / John Adams | brocolli gone bad | Great Taste prep | Great Taste of the Midwest | Great Taste follow-up | Voyage to the Great Attractor / the dreaming squirrel | pretzels & farts | tickets to Vega | when bedbugs attack / weather change | that bad piece of carrot cake / how I killed lisa | fixing that rattle in the clothes dryer / rained all day | Tim gets his license | B’s mixed-up shoe day | trying to buy shoes | Tim borrows the car for the first time | stormy weather / Peter Forgacs | Cedarburg | steaks for Tim / the rabbit | herky-jerky Monday | not enough time to read | waking up too early | boring | Sean’s home! |

What’ya Know? / visiting with the kin | A Taste of Madison | taking Tim shopping / Sean’s departure | mosquitoes or chickens? / returning Barb’s library books | an eye zit | sorry about the eye zit post | Friday at the Blue Plate | Iron Men / Marigold Kitchen | mowing spoils a Sunday | Monday gets worse | the breakfast cookie | a scholar in the family | sloppy joes | paving LaBelle | about poop | fun with the Sunday paper | itches | internet ads | exploding door | found money | when you’re not sure what to talk about, talk about what you eat | convalescing from a head cold | Six Feet Under / The Bourne Ultimatum / Cowboy Beebop | Heroes / starting From Here to Eternity / giving up on Voyage to the Great Attractor | dark in the morning, dark in the evening / execrable | what’s up with the wi-fi | Square Toast / Mr. Pop Song Hater | pot luck / names of Burma / Oprah’s salary | Bike the Barns / the first time she picked up a turd | Mr. Pop Song Hater returns |

Secret Santa | Where’s the comma go? | God Said ‘Ha!’ | On the record with Capital Times | A visit to the Harmony Bar / Suzanne Vega concert | Quivey’s Grove Beer Fest | Cleaning the basement sink | A Peregrine visits / Bonkers sniffs my shoes / The Good German | Recycling stuff in Germany / plunging the depths of the tub drain / From Here To Eternity / Feels like snow? | Excel stuff | A baby’s arm holding an apple / body-heat vampire / Antarctic fireman | Extras / Barb glued her lips | Crossword / paint fumes | Momix dancers / Sinday | doorbell | talky DJs / yodeling / what’s a morning song? / radio rules | hump day / Word Play / Cheney’s Law | toasters / Wisconsin’s budget | Band of Brothers, episodes 1 - 4 | worst pop music / Oklahoma! | The Good Shepherd / picking pumpkins / culver’s ice cream | the right coffee grind | the ideal seat-mate / Band of Brothers, episodes 5 - 6 | Krazy Kat / kick my computer, please! / Band of Brothers, episode 7 | sick of Bee Movie yet? | tilling the garden / From Here To Eternity | impossible crossword / The Hoax / no-go storm door | making a return at Menard’s / swapping chores with Tim / Love My Rifle More Than You | crusty blech | Halloween treats / cruel shoes

cigars & coffee / O-Men fix dinner | fogotten pot luck / Hello, Gray! / just rich enough | Six Feet Under / Amish lights | flattening boxes | adjusting to non-DST | Boo and Robot Chicken / not smart enough to fly to the moon / Battlestar Galactica | Tesla & Tchaikovsky | Bonkers caught a mouse / more Battlestar Galactica | attack of the paper clips | breakfast at Lazy Jane's / a visit to Peg's | waking up, waking up, waking up / a shelf / secret bathroom medicine cabinet | hiding in the lair | a free lunch | trouble closing doors again | ink cartridges / the road | the road keeps me awake | Ratatouille | storm windows / the road | yakisoba / mornings on horseback / sex with a bicycle | rainy day stuff / Harold & Kumar | Christmas music begins / Norwayland | the T-day menu / mom & the dishwasher / why's T-day on Thursday? | oversleeping / a trip to the bookstore | shopping downtown / AHWOSG | secret bathroom medicine chest / Stiff / Notes on a Scandal | toast panic / graduation scam | AHWOSG / Potbelly's / a cannonball! / bank clocks? / butter / zheely-bweely | hamburger shoulder / tickets at the trendy clothing store / dark chocolate | java jonesing / hamburger helper from scratch / dishwashers again / Packer fan by default | Hooah! / dinner at Harmony Bar / Breach |

in like a lion / December already? / AHWOSG | shoveling snow | Northern Lights | flatiron fun / another winter storm / Close Range | XYZ / Tim cuts his own hair | stocking stuffers / compliments on Tim's haircut / making faces at Mara / new phones / Close Range | computer trouble | Jonathan Coulton / Paul & Storm concert / cutting the Christmas tree | trimming the tree / time for Code Monkey / Mom's book recommendations | shoveling snow & chipping ice / a candy treat? / "serensified" | school called on account of snow | nightmare / Bonkers caught another mouse / party time at work | Code Monkey dance / guy dinner served late / a capitalist is born! | a new headset / walking in trenches / steroids | shopping State Street / Tower Bar time | clearing snow from the deck, roof | all the chocolate in the world / the ruby slippers / stinky elevator / annoying radio announcers | even more chocolate / making a guest room for Sean / Bel Canto | a killer quilt rack / mapping Wisconsin / pot luck at work | inching up Carroll St / my barber tries to tip me / the roof rake / The Imperial Way | the twenty-oneth / a discussion of art / on an expedition for a word | Sean’s flight into town | snowbound at home | sleeping in without oversleeping / Christmas movies | a gathering at grandma's / disappearing brocolli | the terror of driving on the interstate | my superpower: the worst-case scenario | short Friday / silny sneg | Tim meets the snow plow / book-buying with my gift cards / juggling rooms | moving day | the pina colada song |

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