Good morning from Stockton - home of the currently being held Asparagus Festival - if I hear one more &#39;spear-it&#39; joke from a talking head, I&#39;ll barf.<br />
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Another pain free day - I can so get used to this&#33;<br />
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Found the accounting error - for some reason, the billing computer decided to charge two credit cards twice...since it had the same record number it didn&#39;t show up until we got the statment from the CC people.  Ya gotta love computers&#33;<br />
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Finished off the tiers and the insets yesterday, so my portion of the &quot;Iron Chef&quot;...excuse me, &quot;Ultimate Chef&quot; competition is over.   We are currently listed on estockton.com, but there isn&#39;t much info there yet.  Hopefully, there will be more covereage, since the competition is only two weeks away.<br />
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A quiet day in store for us today.  I&#39;m currently making Big Island Potato Salad for our get-together tomorrow.  We&#39;re out with the Crockers tonight and that&#39;s my day - yea&#33;&#33;  it&#39;s supposed to be 90 this afternoon, so it&#39;ll be a good day to laze around.<br />
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Shari - we&#39;re starting to have &#39;the moving&#39; talk as well.  We&#39;ve been here for nearly 20 years and are well established in this area, but have been really unhappy with the changes we&#39;ve seen so far.  our lease is up in July and it will really depend upon what sort of rates they offer us.  I&#39;d hate to have to move, but it is what it is.<br />
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Joey, you are right that as long as people are remembered, they are never gone.  We have Dad sitting in the hallway in a military case.  People might think I&#39;m crazy, but I talk to him all the time.<br />
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Joey - on the topic of hair color, people ahve been dying their hair for a long, long time.  Check out some of the ingredients in make up if you want to get really scared.  I dye my hair once every 5-6 weeks.  i can&#39;t think that&#39;s any less healthy than living in a large city with pollution or eating tons of foods with preservatives (or fast food), none of which I do.   Don&#39;t wear make-up, don&#39;t eat prepackaged foods or drink soda, don&#39;t smoke or do drugs.  Dying my hair is my little vice.  If it kills me, so be it.  <br />
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Jennifer - I&#39;m counting the days until menopause.  Looking forward to being brain dead...gotta be better than a period.<br />
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Hope everyone is having a grand day.<br />
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Charlie<br />
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Charlie