Damn, I really wish I was less cynical

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Senators say military strike on Iran must be option

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic senators said on Sunday the United States may ultimately have to undertake a military strike to deter Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but that should be the last resort. “That is the last option. Everything else has to be exhausted. But to say under no circumstances would we exercise a military option, that would be crazy,” Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said on CBS's “Face the Nation.”

I saw this one coming a while ago. The cynical part of me is thinking the US is going to bomb the hell our of Iran. The realist part of me says the cynical part of me isn't far off the mark. That scares me.

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We seriously need to move

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They're coming at us from all directions. We can't escape it. It started with the lead-footed neighbours upstairs that we can hear watch TV / talk / sing / walk / sleep / breathe. Now, there's a band practicing in the garage right in front of our front room window. We can hear their drumming over our movie.

Katy is starting to lose her mind.

I'm not far behind.

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[Recipe] Apple-Honey glazed ham

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I have discovered the recipe for ham love.

Take one 2kg smoked roasting ham. Put it on a rack in roasting pan filled with two cups of apple juice (make sure you have about an inch of liquid on the bottom of the pan). Stick a few cloves in the ham. Cover the ham with some foil and cook at 350F/180C for 2.5 hours.

Melt half a cup of brown sugar in half a cup of maple syrup. Once melted, uncover the ham and brush the glaze generously on the ham. Cook for another 30 minutes, basting after 15 minutes.

When cooked, let sit for 10 minutes and dig in.

In one word, SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

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Sometimes the internet scares me

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Periodically, I go over my website logs. I'm getting something like a million hits a month and about 10 gigs of bandwidth traffic (which in itself is flabergasting as this is an I-love-me website). A lot of people link directly to the strips in the comic archive. Annoying, but I can live with that. Since I'm still below my bandwidth allocation, I don't mind, really, and I can't be assed to write an htaccess file to limit the referrers.

Sometimes though, I'm worried about the state of humanity. People hot linking comic strips? I can handle. People hot linking pictures from my portfolio and taking them *scarily* out of context? I get worried. Not as in, OMG they're going to steal my identity or start stalking me (and lets face it, most of the time it's from emo kids on myspace). More of the “what the fuck are they thinking” sort…

Case and point:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nickcerta/
http://myspace.com/plusplusminus
http://myspace.com/risingsunmusicnet

The myspace accounts are typical of all that is wrong with myspace, but that's irrelevant. What is freaky is that they both link images completely out of context. The LJ one is sorta in context, but still, wrong.

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workout #1

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5 miles of bike in 20 minutes with heart rate hovering at 85% of max (so about 160), followed by 5 minutes of an evil rowing machine (I want to do more of that, but damn, so far, I can't do more than 5 minutes!) followed by a few sets of assisted chin-ups and upper body free weights.

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