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Ahahaha. Oh, Dad, if only you knew how ironic your email to me this morning was.

Dear Sam,

I know you blog often, so be careful! There is a new website danger out there:

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/New_hacking_method_threatens_web_users

Keep safe! Don't get hacked!

Love,
Dad

I was pretty wary the first time I met Lucky (he's my stepfather) but he is a Good Dad.

Not that this link would have helped me not get hacked, so it's not like his timing is actually off, but still. "Don't get hacked!" is so...cheery and upbeat. Bless 'im.

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So, there were a couple of errors in the Christmas ornaments (egregiously, the Arabic was backwards *facepalm*).

I've made some corrected sheets but haven't yet updated the PDF file or the original post. You can find the new sheets below, just right-click and save-as.

Hooray for PROPERLY SPELLING SCHADENFREUDE.

English:
Sheet One
Sheet Three
Sheet Four

Foreign Language:
Sheet Two

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75 years ago tomorrow, Prohibition ended in the US.

Good thing PeaPod is delivering a large bottle of rum along with the rest of my groceries tonight!

Also, Jack & Ellis has been updated with the first portion of Chapter 38. Ellis is irrational, Jack is restrained, and Purva gets what she wants.

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BossBoss and I were having a conversation about family today, and he told me he's the oldest of 34 grandchildren. Not counting the step-grandchildren since both of his parents remarried people with families as big as the original.

Knowing he's a Chicago native, I asked, "Hey, are you Irish, maybe?"

"Just a little bit," he replied.

So then I told him about the time when all the Texas cousins and I realised we were off the hook for years on account of the shit Bernard pulled, and he told me about how he misses the military because it was always a really good excuse not to answer family phone calls. :D

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....the Texas cousins and I, the Texas cousins and I.

What the hell, Me. Where did all my grammar go just then?

Unrelatedly, I need to stop visiting SomethingAwful, because it can't do me any good at all. But they just uncovered a "horror" "writer" who got banned from LJ and wrote at least one story about the Loch Ness Monster living in the Chicago river.

Kids, I tell you this for free, if the Loch Ness Monster is living in the Chicago river we need to find him and save him and take up a collection to send him back to Scotland because there is some scary shit going down in that river and if he's there much longer he'll never be able to reproduce.

And who doesn't want little Loch Ness Monster Babies?

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R has invented a song. Its primary lyrics are:

It's cold
It's cold as balls
I'm freezing my agates off
Balls
It's cold as cold-ass balls

I've never heard "I'm freezing my agates off" before.

Some of you may recall the girl who came to stay with us, who had friend drama and was mentally fourteen. You may further remember that I cockblocked him because of all this.

Well, she's coming back to Chicago and invited herself to stay at his place.

He said, "No." I am very proud of him!

And furthermore he found a use for Bland, because his reason for not allowing her to stay with him was "Bland's girlfriend is visiting and I think she'd be a little weirded out by it."

Also, That Girl stalked him down the other night while he was at a wake and stood right behind him until he noticed her (and potentially screamed -- Ratpacker said it was a scream, R says it was a yelp) and then told him that she was tired of all the drama. Yes. She is tired of the drama. Which is why she won't leave him alone. And then when he told her to leave him alone, she spent the rest of the night texting him again.

I told him he should find some visibly pregnant female friend and take her to That Girl's bar and announce that they're engaged. Because at this point, while I understand that she certainly needs mental help, I feel like he's either going to have to get a restraining order or give her a fucking meltdown, and let's face it we all know which one would be more interesting.