Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Life is in flux BIG TIME these days. I want to keep in touch with all of my peeps. The Internet is this beautiful thing. I can move to a brand new city and still stay in easy, near-daily contact with the people I love. When I feel connected to the people in my life that matter, I am unstoppable!

Very Very Bad Thing

By Abby at 10:10 am on Wednesday, January 5, 2005

According to pseudorandom, as of today:

According to… the Chicago Sun-Times, the war in Iraq has cost $130 billion to date (per the Office of Management and Budget). Given that we invaded Iraq 20 March 2003, that comes to 656 days since the invasion, which in turn equals $198,730,732 per day.

In other words, the total amount committed by the US government to date for tsunami relief — $350,000,000 — 42.27 hours of the cost of the war in Iraq. Just to put things in perspective.

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They’re Here! They’re Here!

By Abby at 8:12 am on Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Help! Indians have attacked Memphis and are eating all of our barbecue! Hee hee! Well, all of the guests have arrived. Sunitha, Ashwyn, and Elizabeth arrived in Memphis last night at around 7:30pm, shortly followed by Aaron. The first order of business was getting some barbecue… OF COURSE! And today, the tourism begins with a trip to the Peabody to see the ducks. I have to go to work, but I will join them later for a mandatory trip to the National Civil Rights Museum. There’s so much fun touristy stuff to do here, and now I have an excuse to do it! If only they’d arrived on a weekend, but I forgive them. Ashwyn has to go back to India on Saturday, so I am honored he chose to spend the end of his trip here in Bluff City!


CHOMP!


Lovely Dancing Pigs!


The Bar-B-Q Shop. Swoon! I mean, Swine!

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Indelicate Tsunami Question

By Abby at 11:10 pm on Monday, January 3, 2005

I wonder if the actual tsunami is having an effect on the local Pacific-Rim restaurant called Tsunami. If there is an effect, I wonder if it’s positive or negative. Is the actual tsunami related to the fact that the restaurant’s web site is down today? All I could find was the cached version. Hmmmm…

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Dear Rave Boy,

By Abby at 7:12 pm on Monday, January 3, 2005

Please will you STFU? Please oh please? I’ll give you a cookie. I’ll… NO! Screw that. Just SHUT UP! People live here! People are trying to live and do work! I went back to work today, and I have stuff to do! I can’t write at work because I have no computer. Please just let me do it here. Please! PLEASE STOP!

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iPod Update #3

By Abby at 7:19 pm on Sunday, January 2, 2005

OK, one of the people who signed up can’t complete their offer because most of the offers require a major credit card. It’s the kind of deal where you do a free signup period, so even if you eventually cancel, you have to have the credit card at the beginning. So I’m still one person short. Anyone? Anyone?!

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