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I used to sign my full three initials on things a lot. Now, it's either signatures, or if there's a rare occasion where I need to initial something, it's just first and last.

I also used to use pepper jack cheese a whole lot.

I wonder what changed.

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I'm so glad I went to Europe when I did. The dollar is turning into the Canadian Euro.

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I finally tracked down a song that has been lingering in my memory since my childhood: Russ Ballard's "Voices".

This is one of a handful of songs my dad would blast through the house when Mom was out and I was playing video games.

It stuck because the lyrics were kind of dumb... "walk in the room, in the corner you see, the voice is waiting for me"? See the voice? I played a lot of Zork back then, so I was used to making do with concepts my grade-school brain hadn't learned yet, like granite walls and viscous materials.

70's AM radio rock at its finest. It demands speakers with a woodgrain pattern.

My half-priced book adventure!

I found a Half-Price Books store next to the Guitar Center, so I went in and found what might end up being the perfect cookbook for me: "What to Cook When You Think There's Nothing in the House to Eat."

It seems to sort recipes by ingredient, so just turn the page to that thing you got for that one recipe and then don't know what to do with the rest of it. I think "The Joy of Cooking" has a similar index, but it's a big thick book with tiny print on flimsy paper. In this book, the print is large enough for me to read comfortably, and it's printed on durable plain non-glossed paper.

Come back in a month and ask me whether it's gathering dust with the rest of my cookbooks. Even if I only use a few recipes out of it, it'll be worth the $3 I spent on it.

Also for $3: The Reader's Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual, a book I always saw lying around some random part of the house when I was growing up. It's pretty much what my dad used to learn home repair, so I suppose it'll work for me too. Can't wait for something to break.