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[theducks]

Hmm not much happening really. Cousin-Simon got his appendix out and comes out of hospital today or tomorrow. Went to see him on Monday and he was dong pretty well, so that was good. Co-worker-Simon is back today from his wisdom teeth, which is good, he was expecting to be away a lot longer.

I'm spending most of my working hours fighting with fricken Windows XP. It's better than Windows NT at least, and it's got some funky features. I sent out an email to students on Monday night asking for feedback on our labs. I've got 100 responses so far! Got some good suggestions, and indeed several of our students seem to be quite knowledgable :) Of course, this survey is to make up for the fact they don't have a student rep on our department's IT council anymore, who would actually have more say in the matter than me, since I need to convice my boss to follow their desires in part, instead of the student rep actually having an equal vote/say on the matter at the IT council which decides funding. Oh well :P

And in other news.. this is just stupid. You have to read it to understand, but basically it's the INS totally overreacting about a Quebec man visiting a gas station in Maine.. except the only road in and out of the station leads to Canada. The driveway of the gas station is in Canada, and the pumps are in the US.

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[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

So, how exactly did Simon get his appendix removed twice?

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Welll.. after much searching and digging they got the original operative reports from the hospital in Vancouver where we all thought he had it removed while he had some other abdominal surgery, and there's no mention of it in the records from there. So apparently he didn't have it removed then, even tho everyone (except the surgeon..) thought he was going to have it removed at that time. Thankfully this time his scar is in the same place as the other one, so it's not going to be any more noticable than the 15 inch scar he already had across his abdomen :) Hehe.

[singularity.livejournal.com]

Heh, I figured you've been following this story for awhile like I have. It's completely rediculous. Like, even those in Bangor, Maine I think it was, ran huge editorials on front pages advocating his release. No one near there wants him charged. It's all about proving that they've stepped up security along the border.

[seraphim-muso.livejournal.com]

Glad your cousin is ok :)

Hey! Love your new icon :) Very cool. When was it taken?

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Niagara falls in 1999 :) Tis funky. I've had it for a while.. generally only use it when I'm talking about Canada :)