Archive for June, 2005
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Almost every time I make it back to Texas from California, I meet up with friends of mine who are in town to head up to Duke's Tavern, which I found out last night is the oldest bar in the suburb in which my parents live. Last night, I ended ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
When I first showed up in California in September of 2003, I started to take note of the similarities and differences between California and my old home of 22+ years, Texas. The food is reasonably similar (the Tex-Mex and traditional Californian cuisine being the two big differences), and I surmised ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
This year's NBA finals have featured the San Antonio Spurs versus the Detroit Pistons. I have been rooting for the Spurs (being from Texas), and after game five, they led the best of seven series three games to two. Game six was this evening, and Detroit won, forcing a game ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Another installment of the Nike run series took place this evening, and I again was able to successfully complete the three mile run in the eleven to eleven and a half minute per mile pace group. In fact, I was feeling good enough near the end of the run that ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
Finally. I've been in California for two years now, and just this afternoon I felt my first earthquake. According to this data from the US Geological Survey, the quake was of magnitude 5.3 and struck about 70 miles east of here at 20:53:25 UTC (or 1:53 PM PDT).
I was sitting ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
An article on CNN today reported that Coldplay's new album "X&Y" has debuted at number one on the charts in the United States and Great Britain along with twenty other countries. Coldplay's record label, EMI Group Plc, is obviously excited to hear this news, as the revenue helps the company ...
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