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Also, your foreign language lesson for today:

Santoku: A word of Japanese origin, describing the bladed instrument used by a samurai during the preparation of a feast for his cohort. The samurai would ritually slice his thumb with it, causing great pain and loss of blood, and be forced to throw out a lot of good napa cabbage.

More to come later!

Well, I got my mail at work today. One article of mail advertised a machine tool demonstration that is going to be held in Kentucky. Would be fun to go to, but it's in Kentucky, and I'm not sure if I could take off work for long enough to go. I put the piece of mail down, but not before something caught my eye. I thought I recognized someone in one of the pictures on the cover!

Guess what? It was me. :D I'm on the cover of a flyer distributed to countless numbers of people across the country. Yay! And I need to lose some weight. *sad*

There's an online version of the flier at Mazak's website. Not going to say which one I am, but if you know me, you should be able to spot me.

I'm pleased and yet dismayed at the same time. Gotta get that diet in gear!

My wrist is dressed, yet still it bleeds,
and burns hot from within.

Remember, kids, safety first!

OMFGSatireNewsFlash - Hurricane Katrina recently smashed ashore and flooded areas of Louisiana, particularly those below sea level and between bodies of water retained by a complex system of retention walls. Eyewitnesses, who were asked to evacuate the area ahead of the hurricane and had plenty of access to weather forecasts, are now "desperate to leave". An imaginary interview with a resident of the area quotes them as saying "Nature will never keep us down! We'll rebuild with massive amounts of insurance money!"

In Georgia, Governor Sonny Perdue went on file as saying, "The most important thing motorists can do is stay calm, conserve fuel and don't rush to the pumps...In other words, there is no reason to panic. There is plenty of gas on the way and the only reason we would have problems locally is if people rush out to buy gas they don't need." Of course, this meant that lines were long at gas stations across the state as people desperate to obtain the precious fuel drove prices up to the $4.00 per gallon range, and in some instances up to $5.00 per gallon. Some silly few would claim that this is merely a result of supply and demand, and that market only allows prices that the demand side would bear. These crackpots, of course, are wrong. After diligent searching and researching, and searching again, this news research team has discovered the true source of the increased prices: gouging.

In an imaginary interview with a driver of a Behemoth2k, a stellar vehicle with an excellent fuel economy of 5 gallons per mile, the driver raged that, "Yeh know, if the government would build more gas pipes, we wouldn't be out of gas!
It's supply and demand, see? We need more supply! I mean, look at what's going on... they're telling us that the gas pipes we have right now aren't working, and the entire state is trying to purchase gas, and those price gougers are raising the prices! omg! lol! roflomg11!1!!11oneone"

Back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Something's in the works! Check back later. :-) It'll be good, or so I keep telling myself. Yeah, I find it hard to believe as well. We'll just have to wait and see, now won't we? Haha!