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"home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells." time, pink floyd

Fishing just gets worse and worse. How far will the industry be able to sell the fantasy that were all up here getting rich?

Anyway, I am home, had a great weekend.

• Seahawks stomped that crappy state were it's a crime to be brown.
• I tried downloading Civ V from Steam and have had nothing but problems. Game wont play, tech support sucks, and have asked twice now for my $50 back.
• Bought a new iPod nano multitouch for a friend only to find out that it can't be sync'd to a iBook G4 running OSX Tiger 10.4 the fix is to put leopard (not snow) OS on the iBook. This is no longer available, except via torrents. =] or use it with a Windows machine. Nice customer support Apple, you basically shit on your long time customers. Boo!
• Found out my unemployment check will be smaller
• Twitter gives me the fail whale whenever I try to log in, just discovered this is a known technical issue and am waiting for Twitter to fix the problem.
• Peoples Bank of China raised their interest rates for the first time since 2007
• Bought an AT&T track phone (gophone) and discovered that easy hookup was 3 hours on the phone with idiots and crappy automated computer help desk, several disconnects and 1 ton of frustration.
• Went to Mass at St James on Saturday, started coughing uncontrollably during the homily and had to leave. Thanks to bronchial infection contracted while fishing, exasperated by 2 packs-a-day smoking stress habit.
• Enjoying some great Oktoberfest beers, trying to put some meat back on my bones after losing 35lbs while slaving for less than minimum wage. 

I have several new roommates that seem peaceful and private enough for my taste. been doing some organizing, computer time, reading, and enjoying my precious time off.

I started my Pimsleur Mandarin lessons again and thought I would look at some free University Mandarin courses offered through iTunesU. (Yes I hate apple but still use them) I'm even on Ping as Tao Minghan. follow me there.

OK, time to lay back and do some reading. Goodnight. I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago at the moment.