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I have to spend most of the day there tomorrow. Any suggestions of things to do or places to eat during down time would be MOST welcome.

A new tradition is born - the weekly interesting hot tub pic from Flickr.

I hate flying into Chicago's O'Hare Airport, it's usually a lengthy delay in process. However, on both ends of my trip to Anaheim, it was fine. On Wednesday evening, it was the customary crowding you would expect at O'Hare.

But yesterday? I've been in O'Hare on Sunday afternoon many times, and it's always been a zoo. Not Easter Sunday, though. It took me five minutes to order AND GET my cheeseburger and beer from the Billy Goat Tavern spot in the food court. I had no problem finding a place to sit in the food court, or at my flight's waiting area. There were no lines going out the door of the bathroom.

It wasn't empty, but I wasn't feeling stress from sheer human density, either. Will have to file that away for future travel plans.

We need Round Table Pizza in Pennsylvania. CMON!!!

UCLA fans abused the NCAA tournament in Anaheim with non-attendance last weekend. The first game of the second round was STILL maybe half-full, only to fill up for the last game of the day with UCLA. I don't know if it's because scalpers snagged all the tickets or what, but that was a pathetic attendance performance for what is a great sports event. No wonder Los Angeles doesn't have a pro football team.

I want no part of that LA traffic. Claim Jumpers is pretty tasty, and giant helpings.

The Los Angeles area is actually very pretty at night, if you stand on a high point and watch all the tiny lights twinkling as far as the eye can see. During the day, of course, is a different story.

In case you're wondering, Weis Markets is open today but Giant is not.

Thursday night in Manheim ...

MANHEIM TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A man running around a Lancaster County Chuck E. Cheese restaurant on Thursday evening was spitting and yelling "I have hepatitis C," police said.

Manheim Township police said they arrived at the Chuck E. Cheese of Fruitville Pike around 7:45 p.m. and found David Ecenrode, 45, of Ephrata outside the restaurant. He was taken to a local hospital. Police said they have not confirmed whether he has hepatitis C.

"He was running around acting crazy and spitting, which I think that was probably most significant cause for concern because you're in an eating establishment and this guy's spitting and then on top of that announcing that he has Hepatitis C," said Sgt. Tom Rudzinski.

Chuck E. Cheese managers closed the facility and told patrons to wash with soap and water.

Hey if you're going to buy pizza from a giant rat, what do you expect?

We're ahead in the toilet race.

BEIJING, Mar 19 (Reuters) - Beijing organisers are refitting the toilets at three main Olympic venues after complaints from foreign athletes about having to squat, an official said on Wednesday.

Most toilets in China are still of the squat rather than sit-down variety, as spectators and competitors at recent test events in otherwise state of the art venues like the "Water Cube" aquatics centre discovered.

"In my personal point of view, there are cultural differences between Chinese and Western people. Chinese are more used to squat toilets," said Yao Hui, a senior official responsible for the management of Olympic venues.

Sounds like a job for Jiffy Zhang!

While the boss is away, the Clintonistas will play!

(Just kidding, just kidding ...)

While the rest of you were out drinking green beer, my team wrapped up 2nd place for the regular season in the West Shore Recreation Co-Rec BB league tonight. That's good for a T-Shirt and a gift certificate to Garfield's. Woo hoo!

Playoffs next week.

If she insists on humiliating herself, well, that's the way it goes.

I rarely have meetings. I think this article grossly simplifies the hierarchy of meetings. For example, this question:

Mr. McKay's confession helps answer the question of why, if everybody hates meetings so much, do we have so many of them?

is a great determinant of the hierarchy of meetings. Is this a meeting called together by the general participants in the meeting? If so, this is likely to be an interactive and information-rich meeting.

Is it a meeting called together by a superior - a boss or a client? If so, this has a greater potential to NOT be interactive, but rather either a one-way communication dynamic where the superior speechifies to the called together audience, or where the called-upon provide presentation skits to the superior.

I think it's these kinds of meetings - particularly the latter - that people tend to dislike. At least in the one-to-all presentation meeting, it can be short, although brutal, depending on the speaker's presentation capabilities. In the all-to-one model, however, you'll almost ALWAYS get a lot of poor presentation, and poor presentation leads to a lot of questions and follow up because information was not delivered in an ingestible fashion, which means that the poorest of the presenters get the most time in these meetings.

Yeeeaargh. I worked for a company in which we had 2 or 3 of these all-to-one meetings each week, and it was part of what drove me away. I can't stand these kinds of meetings. I will find ways out of them.

These are too expensive, but I think this is a really smart idea.

One of the biggest space hogs we have in our kitchen are coffee cups. With the handles, they clog up the cabinets, they are unwieldy for stacking, and we have a lot of them, because we do silly things like buy a coffee cup as a souvenir for a weekend trip or vacation, and then don't want to put them away in a box later.

Something like this gets some of them out of the cupboard, and even better, maybe they could put detachable handles on these things, because the handles are a space eater.

Entertaining enough movie. I wouldn't really compare it to Jaws, however. Except that they're making a sequel...

Sounds like a good band name. It's been a crime for a long time, and it seems to be making a comeback.

Third-generation beekeeper Roscoe Hall spent the last year fretting over a disease that's inexplicably caused thousands of his industrious insects to abandon their colonies.

Now, entire hives are disappearing, too.

In the long, flat valley where the nation's almonds grow, bee thieves are striking hard this winter, nabbing increasingly valuable hives from farmers' fields where bees are used to pollinate blossoming nut trees.

A few weeks ago, 180 of Hall's hives were lifted over a period of days, a bit of banditry he estimates cost him nearly $70,000 in lost bees, pollination fees and honey production.

'If a man doesn't have his bees under lock and key these days, he's going to pay for it,' Hall said as he opened one of his remaining hives to reveal thousands of amber-colored bees busy in the honeycomb. 'Even then they'll find a way of breaking the lock.'

I got one!

For those of us concerned about an extended primary battle hurting the Democratic nominee, think back to last season's Major League Baseball playoffs. The Red Sox had to fight out of a 3-1 deficit against the Indians while the Rockies coasted to a NLCS sweep of Arizona. Yet when the World Series came Boston crushed Colorado!

What do you think?

No matter where your place of employment:

NO Criminal Record.

NO drug/alcohol/drama problems.

NO sloppy/bad habits, crappy attitudes.

NO Rock Star/Egomaniacs.

NO yea I have been tattooing out of my trailer for 6 yrs.

NO Phone Interviews ! Only call to set up an Interview. Have portfolio and References available.

Found in a Welsh lobster pot.

LONDON (AFP) - British marine experts have found what they claim is a world first — a six-legged octopus, or "hexapus," whom they have christened Henry.

The unique sea creature, which has two limbs fewer than a normal octopus, is believed to be the result of a birth defect rather than an accident, say his keepers at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England.

"We've scoured the Internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no-one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus," said supervisor Carey Duckhouse.

Henry was discovered in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast two weeks ago, and was one of eight creatures that Sea Life staff picked up from a local marine zoo there — where staff hadn't noticed his missing legs.

I don't have a clever comment. I just wanted to say "hexapus".

They have their "first full state welcome for any leader since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003."

Pomp and ceremony greeted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his arrival in Iraq on Sunday, the fanfare a stark contrast to the rushed and secretive visits of his bitter rival U.S. President George W. Bush.

Ahmadinejad held hands with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani as they walked down a red carpet to the tune of their countries' national anthems, his visit the first by an Iranian president since the two neighbours fought a ruinous war in the 1980s.

His warm reception, in which he was hugged and kissed by Iraqi officials and presented with flowers by children, was Iraq's first full state welcome for any leader since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?

What NTodd said.