This is the top shelf of our fridge ...

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... and we don't even drink beer.

We returned from our House hunting trip on May 23rd and there were a few things which stood out to me:

• In the summer the sun stays up a long time - we were getting ready for bed at 9:30pm and had a great view of the sunset from our hotel room.
• The vast majority of rentals are furnished - I suppose if you don’t own a place, why own furniture?  We felt lucky to find an unfurnished place for rent that fit our needs.
• Not everything is open on the weekend - we were hoping to get a tour of rental properties on the Saturday we were there, we had to opt for Friday and Monday instead.
• Movies have reserved seating - we found the same thing in London and loved it.  When you buy your movie ticket you pick a seat too.  We were able to buy a ticket at 3:50 for a 3:45 showing of MI 3 and have a good seat with no issues (we just missed a preview or two, no big whoop).

Long time, no blog.

I'm just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel... and I have been "on vacation" for two weeks now. Why is time off such hard work? Because Paula and I are moving to Ireland.

I'm not leaving Microsoft... or even really leaving Windows Live Mail/Hotmail. Microsoft is adding to its development workforce based in Dublin and I'll be going over there to work on Windows Live Mail with a couple developers.

We're going to sell our house and (as you saw earlier in the blog) I needed to finish the bathroom I started. I also needed to finish off a project I started of replacing the trim throughout the house. Combine that with a house hunting trip to Ireland, meeting with realtors, packing up some of stuff to stage the house and having a garage sale I've been running ragged.

Things are starting to ease up, however. The house goes on MLS tonight and there is only one small bit of trim to finish in the bathroom and I'll be all done.

And Paula will be happy because I now have the energy to shave again.

Six minutes of inspired dancing by "Inspirational Comedian" Judson Laipply.

And they're going to make it really easy on me too!  I'm so excited I could just spit:

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The mail came from a Canadian Yahoo account, I guess that explains the typos and lack of command on the English language.

If you take a pocket full of change, segregate it by color then examine the coins you'll find we have one colored coin in America... and it has Abraham Lincoln on the face.

Think about it...

On a related note, is it any coincidence that paper money and envy share the same color?

While waiting for Windows XP to install on my freshly installed Virtual PC I found my way over to YouTube and fell under the spell of this David Hasselhoff video. The concept for the video obviously came from a poor translation of something Tommy Chong wrote in his own vomit after an all-night bender.  The special effects appear to have been done by the creepy geek who hangs out in the computer lab (and not the smart geek you want to have fix stuff, the other guy with the really poor hygiene).

And yet... I couldn't take my eyes off it...

I downloaded this one at the beginning of April, so Mercedes-Benz's mixed tape 11 is certainly not brand new, but hey... it's free music.  Grab it while it's still there.