trinacriabob

Muito obrigado, amigo! Preciso falar Portugues melhor porque eu gosto muito do Portugal e as coisas Portuguesas...uma casa com vista do oceano me aguarda no Algarve no minho futuro (right, I wish).

Mi piace moltissimo! You know what that means, right?

Mille grazie!

Are YOU getting Social Security? Well, then...But thanks for the kind words.

...since I keep my profile so general and vague, I didn't put down precise area nor birthday. But today is it! My new boss (who merged in his practice into our firm) who is the ultimate moron, complete with personalized license plates proclaiming he is an architect (though incredibly mediocre), is not here today so "while the cat's away, the mice play"...I'll shut my door and work on some crap due for my night classes imminently... Famous people born today: Ted Nugent, Dick Van Dyke, Christopher Plummer and Mary Todd Lincoln.

consumption

penny loafers

junk bonds

white collar crime

I work in a medium sized architectural firm and, in addition to our local drive, we download other stuff (such as our drawings and such) from a server. I also have a flash drive or thumb drive that I use up at the university at night and on weekends when I do crap for my night classes. Thus far, I have never had problems with a file on my flash drive. Interestingly enough, I got a message on the flash drive while at work, after a crash, that said "Volume is dirty." (Now, I do insert my flash drive, carried on my key ring, into my work computer to work on papers during breaks and on my lunch hour.) Lately, my computer has been crashing anywhere from 1 to 3 times a day. It seems to have started when I started using my flash drive (which has been inserted into many different computers on campus). Are these related? What would suddenly cause all these AutoCAD, Microsoft office and even Internet crashes on my work computer? Any ideas?

S-U-B-A-R-U

tetanus

vampire

Miami ("Ya neva' take me to Miami"-said by a fiftyish Jewish matron with a Long Island accent)

Where was that taken? From the vegetation, it looks very Western. Horses scare the $h! out of me...in high school, we had a field trip and this 'effin horse started to go under a tree (right at about saddle level) at a horse riding place in the San Fernando Valley to try to get me off...never been on one of those bastards since. And as for ocnblu's comment, what about Queen Victoria's (or, one of the British monarchs, I forget which) horse riding habits?

lush (the area...not referring to alcohol)

Has it been a good car, though (I am assuming 3400 V6)? Damn, every one I've had as a rental with that engine SIPS fuel? It's not a bad looking car, really. It's the only one with that styling bent that's left for mid-size personal luxury coupe buyers.

Suez Canal

pyramids

Hey, sounds like fun. I'll trade you. Your marathon for my marathon -- finals week for 3 graduate night classes, surreptitiously slipping out the back door early from the office to study. It will be all over in 8 days. I've never been to Hawaii either, and I grew up in LA. I know that's weird. EVERYBODY I know has been. I don't know anybody there nor anybody who wanted to go, so I always went to Florida or across the pond, as I have relatives in both places. Can't say I like what you ate, though. I'm not a big fan of pork and I absolutely detest Thai food, or anything minimally spicy, for that matter. It's always fun to see what kind of rental cars are in vogue at a particular location. I, too, have seen the Aura and it is attractive...I believe it runs with the 3500 VVT V6. Needless to say, in Eastern Canada, your chance of getting an Allure/LaCrosse is higher than it is elsewhere.

canned laughter

Provolone

feta cheese

Greek lemon soup

Charles Bronson