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Today, Vice-President Biden had to Do His Job. Truly he does not have much of a job, but every once in a while, the Constitution and the Rules of the Senate give him something to do. At long last, after 183 days (according to Senator Klobuchar), Minnesota has had equal suffrage in the Senate restored. (Not that anyone is really to blame for the lack of suffrage. Minnesota's election was epic. These things happen.)

I watched the video just now (I was in class when it was live). I think I watched every swearing-in this term except Senator Gillibrand; I did watch Senator Burris live, even though I was in class. I found interesting about this one who escorted Senator Franken into the chamber: Senator Klobuchar and former Vice-President Mondale. Both have served in the Senate representing Minnesota, and I cannot question Vice-President Mondale's credentials. It just got me wondering why he would have floor privileges. As a former President of the Senate, it makes sense that he would be allowed on the floor (a bit of research found that is the reason, or at least the highest-ranking reason); I just had not pondered it until I saw him on the floor.

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thirsty

Jenni is in the Covenant ED again; Yelda brought her in here while I finished up some work in the office. My former student was her phlebotomist.

There's a scene in Sleepless In Seattle when Jonah asks the daughter ofthe travel agents if she knows how much it costs to fly to New York City. "No one knows," she replies; "it changes practically every day." This rule of airfare is alive and well. I've been watching a flight pair for a few weeks now, flights on the same date and the same airline. In June it was under $400. Two days ago it had jumped to over $640. Yesterday it was a bit over $610. Today? $530.40. Same itinerary. It's crazy.

I just got an e-mail from Amazon that says NCAA FOOTBALL10 for PS3 will have Create-A-School. That was something I was disappointed was missing in NCAA09, since I know it was there in the GameCube version in NCAA04.

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fidgety

Date	Airline	Route
1982-02	ML	MDW		PHL
	ML	PHL		MDW
1983-06	ML	MDW		PHL
	ML	PHL		MDW
1985-06	ML	MDW		PHL
	ML	PHL		MDW
1987-06	CO	MDW	DEN	SBA
	CO	SBA	DEN
	CO		DEN	MDW
1990-04	AA	ORD		YUL
	AA	YUL		ORD
1990-05	UA	ORD		DCA
	UA	DCA		ORD
1994-12	UA	ORD		PHL
1995-01	UA	PHL		ORD
1996-03	AA	ORD		SEA
	AA	SEA		ORD
2001-04	UA	ORD		PHL
	UA	PHL		ORD
2001-07	UA	ORD		EWR
	UA	EWR		ORD
2002-02	UA	ORD		EWR
	UA	EWR		ORD
2002-05	UA	ORD		LAX
	UA	LAX		ORD
2002-06	UA	ORD	DEN
	UA		DEN	LAS
	UA	LAS		ORD
2002-08	CO	MDW		EWR
	CO	EWR		MDW
2002-08	NW	MDW		DTW
	NW	DTW		MDW
2003-06	TZ	MDW		LAX
	TZ	LAX		MDW
2004-01	UA	ORD		LAX
	UA	LAX		ORD
2007-07	AA	BOS		ORD

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surprised

14:37:58: Chicago Tribune: Governor Palin "reportedly will not run for re-election."
14:47:13: Los Angeles Times: Governor Palin "will step down as governor of Alaska, according to local television reports."
14:52:28: Anchorage Daily News: Governor Palin "announced today that she will resign in a few weeks. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take over at the Governor's Picnic in Fairbanks on July 25."
15:03:53: Washington Post: Governor Palin "will not seek a second term in 2010, according to sources familiar with the governor's thinking, freeing her to build a national political team and travel the country in support of an expected 2012 presidential bid."

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opinionated

Hear hear!

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awake

Apparently we've been moved. Jenni was notified by phone (as she has a hoidy-toidy phone and carries it with her, while I have a boring phone which more often than not is left at home). One-digit different in the ZIP+4.

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amused

Found at Top Of The Ticket (Los Angeles Times politics blog)

President Obama: And yet all of you continue, leading by the force of the arguments you make but also by the power of the example that you set in your own lives -- as parents and friends, as PTA members and leaders in the community. And that's important, and I'm glad that so many LGBT families could join us today. (Applause.) For we know that progress depends not only on changing laws but also changing hearts. And that real, transformative change never begins in Washington (cellphone "quacks"). Whose duck is back there? (Laughter.)

Michelle Obama: It's a duck.

President Obama: There's a duck quacking in there somewhere. (Laughter.) Where do you guys get these ring tones, by the way? (Laughter.) I'm just curious. (Laughter.)

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interested

About this.

Question The First: When the show ran on ABC Family, it also ran on ABC Family HD. Was the show shot in HD, and how will these DVDs play on my 16x9-aspect-ratio TV?

Question The Second: ABC Family aired 12 episodes of the show, each of which clocks at about 44 minutes. Yet the total runtime listed is only 360 minutes. Does the DVD set cut the episodes further, does it stop before the ghastly Episode 9, or is the listed runtime Just Plain Wrong?

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content

While the high yesterday was 91°F, the water broke; the dew point dropped 10°F in four hours and has stabilized now at about 59°F. The overnight low was 64°F. Back up to 82°F now for air temperature, but what a change.

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hot

Overnight low last night was 73°F.

Yesterday's high and today's high both 93°F.

Dew point has not been below 68°F in the last 72 hours.

I was thinking yesterday that once I put my laptop out in Jenni's car to cool it off, and I was wondering how this was ever a good idea. Weather like this makes me forget the existence of winter.

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The Los Angeles Times reports he's dead, by the way. Hence the internet traffic jam.

I admit I tend to trust the LA Times in these matters.

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It starts with a Facebook status:
Female Person With Whom I Went To High School: is all hormones.

Then the comments:
Person I Don't Know: that is never good!!
26376: I agree with the previous comment: that is never good.
Original Poster: It can be if they are the fun ones... ;-)
26376: When one of _my_ female friends is all hormones, I always expect the worst.
Original Poster: very safe assumption

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For the record, this is (at least) the third consecutive day of 92°F temperatures here.

Monday's low was 72°F, but not until 08:00; it was 75°F in the overnight. The low was 74°F and 72°F the last two nights, respectively.

	mood	-	something that starts with F
	music	-	songs that start with F

So I took a bath. I found out that the PS3 will only output one audio signal at a time, so I had to reroute the audio from HDMI to MULTI AV OUT in order to pipe music into speakers in the bathroom. (I fixed it when I came back into the living room.)

While I was in the tub, I found myself listening to the music and noting whether I thought it would be suitable for Rock Band. I blame Tim for this.

Tracks I thought would work, from the Department of "Tracks That Start With F":

• For What It's Worth -- Buffalo Springfield
• Fortunate Son -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Found Out About You -- Gin Blossoms
• theme from Fraggle Rock
• Frank's 2000" TV -- "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Freddie Feelgood -- Ray Stevens (though you'd have to reassign the keyboards to the lead guitar)
• Free Fallin' -- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
• Fun Zone -- "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Fade Away-- Seether

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surprised

Photography: James M. Thresher, The Washington Post

Read the Post's traffic/transit blog. This is THE news item there this afternoon/evening, understandably.

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hot

*insert image of Bugs Bunny carrying an electric fan and a bucket of ice*

Last time I looked at the temperature reading on the clock on the wall in the living room it said it was only 87°F.

It says 94°F right now.

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awake

One of two questions answered. When my PS2 wireless Guitar Hero guitar controller is attached to bront's PS3, Rock Band 2 (for PS3) does not recognize it as a guitar controller, and instead assumes it is a standard controller (for vocals). The red fret functions as "Back", while the blue (rather than green) fret functions as "forward".

The unanswered question, since I didn't bring my three PS2 Guitar Hero games, is whether Tim's PS3 guitar controllers would be recognized and play in the PS2 games.

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bored

The C-U MTD will eliminate semester passes and adult tokens while implementing a 70% price drop in the cost of an annual pass starting July 1, the News-Gazette reports.

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kind of annoyed

Every time today I have logged on to my laptop's Parkland College account (where I store all my work-related stuff), the computer inexplicably goes to black screen and hangs, completely unresponsive.

It's kind of annoying.

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annoyed

After much consulting with this list, I stand by my assertion that there is not a Costco Warehouse within 100 miles of where I live. There is rumored to be one in Morris; I've seen the rumor putting it by the middle school north of I-80 and by the Moose lodge south of the river. But such rumor is unsubstantiated on Costco's web site, so I am ignoring it.

So for all you people who think going to Costco is trivial, good for you. Not everyone has that luxury.

I looked up some information on the closest Six Flags parks, since jenniebennie is talking about them.

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curious

In a previous post, I said

It occurs to me that since our future apartment has amenities like whoa, anyone who might come visit us in warm summer months ought to consider bringing swimming attire.

This makes me really wish one specific person would come visit.

So who was I wishing would come visit?