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I haven't either. It started probably 5-6 years ago. My upper left eyelid twitches probably 100-150 times a day from fall-back to spring-forward. It's very aggravating. In all the past 5-6 years, it's stopped exactly at spring-forward, even when the date changed. Yesterday after the switch, I had one twitch that was barely noticeable.

1) Christina's father is such an ass. If he's not yelling and complaining, he's spilling his belongings like a buffoon or just not thinking (tonight, he was thinking... with his stomach). At the outset, Christina said that since she's getting married, this would probably be the last time she spends so much time with her father. He's certainly not treating it like that. The Globetrotters saved their asses. Probably as a make-up for the pack incident (was anything further said about the penalty?). I would've thought their fluency in the language would have given them an advantage, but I would've thought wrong. 2) I know it may not be PC, and that 'normal' people have done the same or worse, but we saw the biggest drawback to racing with a slightly autistic individual. I missed the first ~15 minutes, but weren't Zev and Justin in the top few coming out of Japan? 3) Kent and Vixen. What more can I say? Gotta make sure you've got all your sh-- with you... especially the pack that has your passports and money. How the Christ do you take that off of your person or let it out of your sight? It's not that I have anything against people girls who dye their hair weird colors --- in fact, that was 90 percent of the reason anyone ever watched Alias --- but I'd like Ken's guyliner off of my teevee screen. Now. I'm not saying he's a horrible person, and nonconformity isn't bad, but come on! 4) So, for all the conspiracy theorists, we have the second we're-not-done-racing-yet faux pit stop. It saved the cowboys last time. I don't see how in the world it can help Kent and Vixen now.

Eye twitch is gone today, even after a crappy night's sleep. I really can't explain it....

Gregory Alan Isakov - Words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFw7AaBxatA

Actually, I think this may be just what they needed after a several-game slide. Kemba Walker seems to have found some rhythm again. Having a slump isn't disastrous as long as you peak again at the right time. Some quality minutes for freshman Olander tonight --- he went to my high school alma mater!

It was LBJ.

For the past several years, I've had a severe eye twitch that lasts the duration of the fall-spring section of DST. When DST was shortened during the Bush administration, the twitch followed suit exactly. 'They' say it's related to sleep problems. I call bullsh--; I sleep fine and ~9 hours a night. So I, for one, welcome losing the hour to get back to normal.

Link Exciting find. Conditions for a possible excavation sound pretty hellish, tho. In the middle of a swamp accessible only during two scorching months per year, possibly 60 feet down (? this is unclear) and a layer of methane gas waiting down there.... The last sentence in the quote above also seems especially poignant given today's news. But it also may provide a little bit of solace/perspective that these events have always happened. It's not anything new, nor a signal of this being an "end time."

Doesn't Oregon have violation troubles of their own? If they took a deeper look at every D-1 program, they'd probably all be disqualified.

I'm not the most science-minded person. Is this the process developed a couple of years back that was supposed to wipe out the debate of embryonic vs. adult stem cells? If so, this is idiotic. This is tissue cloning, not cloning an entire human being. I really wish they would stay away from these losing side issues and concentrate wholly on the economy and defense.

I don't care if Russell thought he should have won. He didn't. That's all that matters. I've lost at Monopoly when I've had 4 monopolies with hotels on everything. It's the best strategy --- collect and build. But the other person had Boardwalk & Park Place and the railroads, got extraordinarily lucky on the dice, and I got owned. I played the game the exact right way and I lost. [shrug]. At first, I thought 'Here he was calling everyone else a bunch of bitches, but who's the one sobbing like a little girl. And then, I thought what you just wrote. And then when he went on to try to claim some kind of moral victory by semi-revealing that Ralph has an idol, that was lame as hell. It's information for yellow, sure. But the value of it at this point in the game is friggin' nil. I'm not going to deny that he was an innovator. He just didn't innovate enough. He came back this time and tried to play the same exact game. You can't do that! One-trick ponies get bounced, especially when their MO is screwing everyone over with idols (and, this time, idol clues) and picking people off one at a time. The discussion about second chances at tribal had just as much pertinence to Russell as it did to Kristina or Philip. You can't come back on that second chance and do the same thing that got your ass on the outside looking in the first time. Russell had a third chance after his second chance somehow nearly worked. He still didn't change his game. Even complete idiots get wise when their opponent keeps doing the same thing. Purple showed last night that once they took their chemo and got rid of their cancer, they were back to winning challenges and still have a 2-person lead. If Stephanie and the blonde girl want to come back into the fold, OK, but Russell's gone now. His shadow doesn't cast a vote. Really, they'd better hope purple keeps winning. I'm loving Rob's game. He's back to Robfather status. Loved his "Don't you work for me!??!" aside comment after Philip was lobbying for Kristina after they came back from Redemption. Philip now knows he's the next one in line. It'll be interesting to see what happens now if they can't win immunity. Once the merge comes on, the purple tribe has shown they don't put up with connivers. Rob's saving grace may be to keep that idol as long as he can. He may really need it that first week of the merge. Who was it on the purple team who said he hasn't thought about sex in the past two weeks? Quite obvious he's in the same tribe as Natalie. All I've got to say is that was a very nice yellow bikini reclining shot last night!

Awww, man... That sounds like work.

Oh. I didn't know he was a celebrity besides "Amazing Race." Or that his father has such a... uh... history. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I don't know about that movie. Sophomoric comedy ain't really my thing. Yeah, that's probably it. It would be downright inhumane to make them go back out there. They looked hypothermic in the ambulance. And I think that's the moment when you know this chapter in your is over. No shame in it.

Our previous GSP (from a litter that we raised, so he was here all his life) had to be put down very suddenly nearly 3 years ago, a year to the hour that we had to make a compassionate decision to put down his father. Combined with other losses, it nearly wrecked me. Spent almost 2 years w/o a dog after having them all my life. A lot of the joy was really sucked out of this house. I think the last straw toward getting another was the drunken ice fisher who entered our basement the weekend of the Super Bowl last year. That was a little scary. You'd be surprised how fast a low growl and a full set of canines can make even drunks aware of the moment. The upshot of it is, now we have this crazy little kraut. If we could just get him to calm down/slow down a little. Especially when they're young, this breed and its close cousins are very much "1,000 miles an hour down a dead end street." EII, and AJ, I can honestly recommend that if you can handle it space-wise and sanity-wise, and if you can afford it, getting a puppy as the older one gets closer to the end of the average lifespan is a good idea, 1) so s/he can teach the young one the ropes, which is many times more effective than any teaching method you alone can do and 2) it really cushions the blow when it happens --- especially for children, I'd say.

Hmm. Just spent about 2 hours on that site. Sam's Club has only high-corn content, ambiguous "meat" classification 1-star options. Might try some AvoDerm at Petsmart nearby and mix in some 'people food' to extend it (eggs, leftover meat, carrots, potatoes, etc). Do they have a special thing where frequent food buyers get a couple-few bucks off? When going there for leashes, etc? We've always been asked about a member card or something, and have always said no. As with anything, price is a concern. We've never had health concerns with our other guys or 3 litters with the Sam's/Purina, but I'd be interested if it could help with the coat, and particularly with the shedding issues, as mentioned. My uncle has had a string of standard poodles --- hence my desire to at least look at one, before our current GSP was picked w/o my input. But, I guess everything happens for a reason.... With his last one (he's now 80 and in rapidly declining health) after the dog food issues several years ago, my uncle fed him the same food he ate (the dog died at ~8-9 last year of a hepatitis that apparently happens not infrequently in standard poodles). I'm not sure this was the best way to go, but a middle ground probably would make more sense. On edit: PetCo has the AvoDerm for ~$10 cheaper per 30-lb bag, online sale at least.... And amazon.com is regularly ~$8 cheaper (before shipping).

Touche! Last I had heard he wasn't. Though, according to an NFL.com article, it's a 2nd round tender that probably will not hold up under the terms of a new CBA.

Kevin Boss. No tender. Better all-around TE. With all the TE talent that's been and will be available, if we don't pick up one it will be downright criminal. It's been a sore spot since Metzelaars left. One signing and it can be taken care of for the next 6+ years.

We were fostering a Weimaraner for several months a few years ago, and he had a very nasty "metal butt" smell as the owner described it, which is a relatively common thing with the Weims and the anal glands not expressing naturally when going. At times it was like ooze. He'd been on the Beneful stuff. We switched to the Sam's Club 50-lb bag of Purina. To use your word, it formed / cased up, and it stopped smelling that way so often. Weims are some of the craziest effing dogs I've ever encountered (and my dad used to do Animal Control and bring me along, so I've met my fair share of dogs and dog breeds). We've got a GSP now and are still on the Purina. This dog is trip. Feed him in the morning, and as soon as he's done eating, he's by the door waiting to go out for a #2. Feed him in the evening, same deal. Like a damned sieve! Just wondering if this (or anything) might help with shedding. He's a dominantly white GSP and in my experience, those seem to be the ones that shed the most. Seriously, it seems like he sheds his whole coat on the floor every 2-3 days. (I wanted a standard poodle/3rd cross labradoodle mostly for this reason; they don't shed). Is the higher price tag offset by not having to feed as much? As I remember, some are like that....

I think the thing that puzzled me most about Mike was how he perpetually looked like he'd just woken up from a 3-hour nap after being 48 hours awake --- seriously puffy eyes, wild bedhead and someone who's genuinely kind but may just snap due to lack of REM sleep. I've proudly never watched AI, but he's like a clone of a less-vocally talented Clay Aiken. And he could get a sunburn by sitting too close to one of those new compact fluorescent light bulbs, never mind OZ. He did have a good sense that they needed to quit. (They didn't show it... did they find a frog or did the crew just tell them where the last stop was as an act of mercy? When Jamie said, "Is there anything I can do for you [so you don't call the police]?" Unclean thoughts!

Calling a truce is only possible when there's a reasonable expectation that the other side will stop attacking / being inveterate pricks whenever they hold an edge on power. With the whole 51-49 see-saw that this country is stuck in --- at the national, state and even local levels (and hell, much of the world appears to be in this situation as well), if it keeps going this way, I fear that's right. People are just going to keep getting more and more angry when one or other of the sides uses a razor mandate to pass highly ideological/costly legislation. Are we ever going to have a govt that has a broader consensus? I don't think so. This polarity seems to be the symptom of complexity that evolution produces / what chaos theory naturally brings about. That wasn't nearly an ad hom attack. That was the observation that there appears on this board a string of posters, who one at a time, espouse very similar viewpoints. And after getting banned for real ad hom verbal blowouts, crusading, etc. or just after getting totally owned in argument, another one pops up out of the woodwork until it does the same and the process is repeated under different guises. I'd wager that a number of these and other aliases have the same IP address, if it's possible to track that... TBD has a wide-open registration system; all you need to do to create 500 aliases is to start 500 email addresses at hotmail or yahoo. Like the ones in Wisconsin and Indiana, this person's biggest trait is turning tail and running, then slinking back under the cover of darkness. May fool some people here, not me.

You mean how she's a bit helicopter-y and depends way too much on other teams to help them out? OK. That's a big mitigation, but still deserves the penalty. Another thing, as I haven't watched this series in a while either, the money situation really isn't discussed anymore. I guess that's all right tho. Don't really need to hear about budget stuff the whole time.

You get that he's deaf, right? I've got ~40% hearing loss in my right ear, ~20% in the left and am a bit of a "mumbles" myself.... It's awesome that he's representing the deaf/HoH community. I was sorry to see that team going tonight. It's gotta be frustrating to be out there looking for probably 3-4 hours and another team comes in and finds the object in maybe 10 minutes. It's not exactly to the level of that one last season(?) where they had to find the plastic food pieces in the HUGE buffet (and the person had to eat every piece they touched) --- that was totally killer! But, this team had troubles from the start, and it was touching that Mike refused to push his father to the edge. Also, I missed the part with the bag misplacement. Did the Globetrotters do that on purpose? Or did they realize they had the wrong pack and just didn't want to be bothered to bring it back up to the challenge place to return it?

Zev: I'm not wearing any underwear. Justin: Right now? Zev: Yeah. Justin: That's hot! I don't know why any of them would choose the frog/mud challenge. Those 'Find X' challenges are always killers. Right up there with depending on flight connections (to potentially save 15 minutes, over everything that can go wrong?) over direct routes. Fifteen minutes to go, not looking good for our resident redheads.... JAIME!!! Even though she really should talk less. "I'm sorry if I smell." WTF?

If that's the case... a player "juices" and then the next week a CBA is signed. He's screwed. Add in the increased awareness of the longer-term effects of it, and you'd hope that the lure of PEDs has quelled significantly. Probably not, because like most Americans they've also got a care span only for the next 15 minutes... but you'd hope.

If the PED testing requirement is dropped in whatever comes out of a new CBA, expect Congress to start making overtures, just as they did in baseball. And they'd be right, to prevent 100,000 present and former players with roid-rage/TBI and millions of high-school/college minions doing the same. Even with the relatively little we know so far, it presents too serious a risk to the broader populace to let it go unfettered.