42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

Rarrrr.
I want to beat my chest.
I feel very good.
Despite:
Swear words: at least 12
Number of screws leftover: 1
Number of phone calls: about 8, in stages of buying game, DVD-ROM drive, installation
Amount of money spent: Too much
I installed a DVD-ROM drive in my computer, and I feel like shouting to the world about how smart I [...]

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What I’ve been waiting for has finally come true.
Doctor Who has come to America.
It returned to the BBC last year. I despaired of seeing it come here. But at last, the Sci Fi Channel has finally made itself worthwhile.
I watched the first show last night with a little skepticism, remembering well the disaster that was [...]

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I am in a bazaar, full of junk, before opening. I navigate between piles and boxes, smelling the smell of musty things left too long in the basement. Most of this stuff is worthless to anyone.
People are pinning their hopes on this stuff. To the sellers, every crumbling book, pile of plastic or bag of scrap cloth has [...]

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At first, the reading was difficult, embarrassingly so.
MRSMATT.
Mr. Smatt? M.R. Smatt?
Mrs. Matt. A license plate that shouldn’t have been challenging, in the way FORNK80N or NOTI GRL might be. After all, we normally read plates while driving (and perhaps thinking what an idiot the person ahead is for driving too slow and having Momof4 as plate or [...]

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