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And the best part is that intensive scientific research has shown that the pieces of brownies that remain in the pan after cutting and removing the good brownies have no calories! And now you know!!! :rolleyes:

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That would be a funny diet plan. The brownie crumbs in the pan diet. People would probably go for that!

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The brownies are very heavy. I can't imagine how much it is going to cost to mail them. They are headed to the mountains to some Paul Bunyons who are clearing paths.

<if I don't see a brownie crumb for a while, it won't hurt my feelings at all>

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Oh, Jane, BROWNIES??? the kind that goes into the bottom of a hot fudge brownie sundae??? :p YUM!

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I just got back from a week long church camp and so I haven't been able to check CD all week. So now I have tons of new posts to read through, and my mom is telling me to go to bed, so I guess I'll have to do it tomorrow.
Luckily I don't have anything better to do in the summer.

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What festivals are the most fun where you live? I just got back from a barbeque cook off / rib festival! I am so stuffed from sampling all the different ribs and brisket and pulled pork!!! :ahh:

And to top it off, I had my first ever DEEP FRIED OREO!! :yikes: I'm still not sure what my final judgement will be, but it was tasty.

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The Big E is the best by far. Held in Springfield, MA each fall, it features terrific food, parades, carnival rides and shows, animal and agriculture displays, etc. Each New England state has a replica of their original statehouse on Avenue of the States displaying some of the places, food, etc they are known for. I can never decide if I want to buy a Maine baked potato or blueberry or apple pie a la mode, have some cheddar cheese or clam chowder! Hmmm my mouth is watering just thinking about it!
www.thebige.com

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This week, I pack, next week, I will be in Montana at Glacier National Park, backpacking. I just got a back pack from my very good friends (second family). We'll be traveling by van, and there will be 8 or 10 of us (I'm still not sure). I'm looking forward to it. Now if our library would only have some audio books in (can't find a single one that I would want) :(

Continuing along with the food chat, in a couple of weeks will be Huntington's Cornfest, with a hog roast included!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm :D

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I'm on day 5 of not talking to Lacey for more than 5 minutes... this sucks! She's in Florida for a church youth group gathering... I hope she's having fun. I had a whole weekend of fun planned, but she made me promise I wouldn't consume any ------l. That's what I get for having friends that do that kind of stuff. On the other hand, I was completely sober and in right mind this weekend (have been for 20 years, ;))

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right now I'm on vacation in Utah, and I just got back from a four day camping trip (if you can really call it that, seeing as we were in cabins with electricity and running water-but no internet so no CD) in the Uintas (mountains in Utah) with my family, my grandparents and some of my cousins.

It's nice to get back to civilization.

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As you get back to civilization, I will leave it. Tonight we leave around 6 to Montana. We're driving there, so it will be a long drive. I just finished packing, except for my mp3 player, but I'm putting some more stuff on it. We be back packing in Glacier National Park. I'm looking forward to it and just emptied out my camera, so I will be able to take lots of pics :D

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If we are describing our awesome vacations...

I went to this place in the middle of the US, called Indiana, where I was surrounded by nothing but hundreds of creatures dressed in shirts of many colors, some anxiously pushing large mechanical objects on carts, some with tall spiky hair, very loud and enthusiastic about being in the same place.

They kept getting especially vocal, sometimes making animal sounds and loud explosive noises, when these mechanical objects picked up the local flora which were red, blue and strangely black squishy circular flowers and placed then on some sort of sacrificial monument which was tended to by revered members of the group who were identified by wearing black and white stripes.

I ate the local specialties - taco salad, homemade peach pie to die for, and some peculiar round object known as a krispy kreme. I saw a dramatic display of native ceremonial dancing called the chicken - cotton-eye - macarena -ymca - joe dance or something like that which was led by two tribal leaders one of which had blue hair and loved to go upside down.

I also was able to witness a demonstration of the unique abilities of some of the creatures which included lovely music and vocalization as well as some additional ceremonial dance and what could only be described as an unusual mating ritual between two of the young creatures, one wearing the headdress claimed to be the property of the other creatures father while he "serenaded" the other who was formally presented to those in attendance. This demonstration also included a visit by an alien population who attempted to capture some of the more respected members of the community in large round spheres but were fortunately foiled and the captives escaped, one just barely. To settle down the crowd, a group of hairy sibling creatures with an enigmatic leader was brought forth. They were able to arise to the challenge and the crowd dispersed in peace at the end of their performance.

Well there was really too much to fully describe here, so I'll just have to say that if you cant go to Utah or Montana on summer vacation, then Indiana is the place to go! :D

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How the heck do you do field-relative driving? As soon as someone smacks into the robot, things get messed up. Big time.

Encoders suck when they aren't aligned to the chain.

Never leave a newbie unattended with a task that involves a soldering iron. The newbie will mess it up. I'm referring here to the encoder cables. It is a special pinout, so I handed it off to a freshman, and he botched the crimps. Oh well.

Never let LensCrafters touch your glasses. Yesterday, one of the arms broke off my 2-year-old frames, and I figured they would have a replacement, or at least be able to fix it professionally. So what do they do? They take the electrical tape off that I put on temporarily and replaced it with a brown piece of *heat shrink tubing*. Heat shrink! On glasses! And, he melted one of my lenses with the heat gun.:mad: :mad: :mad:

At least he didn't charge for it. Now I have to look through a ripple in the lens for about 2 weeks until a) my vision appointment is done on Tuesday, and b) the 2-week turnaround time for manufacturing the lenses is finished.

Stupid people. I could've done that fix in our shop. Only without melting the lens.

I get braces in a couple of weeks. That should be fun...:(

That's about all that's on my mind right now.

JBot

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I just made it back from a east coast vacation in Pittsburgh and DC. Saw the Capitol building and a few of the different buildings of the Smithsonian.

Also as some of you may have noticed, I have changed my username. I figured I might as well go by my name so everyone can really know me better.

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Continuing to talk about my vacation...

I spent most of yesterday at Lagoon (an amusement park) it was alright, but lines were annoyingly long, but I guess that's more or less unavoidable at amusement parks.

Today my uncle took me, my brothers, and my dad out into nowhere to go shooting. We filled up old milk jugs, water bottles, soda bottles... with water and blasted them with rifles and shotguns. I have some pictures somewhere, and my uncle has some video footage, so I'll see if I can get it up here.