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I lived in the Toronto area for the first 6 years of my life, so that's where my Leafs and Jays fandom comes from. I'm the only Leaf fan in my whole extended family (although my Dad liked them for a bit there, before the rivalry with the Sens picked up, but he'll never admit to it), which pretty much makes me the target of a lot of abuse at family gatherings, as most of them are Habs fans. When I was younger, I hopped on the Cowboys bandwagon when they were winning Super Bowls in the early-90s, but I really don't care about them anymore. There's probably about 4 or 5 NFL teams that I mildy root for, but I wouldn't really consider myself a fan of any of them. When I was really young, I was a pretty big Cardinals fan, pretty much since I liked the Blue Jays, too, and they were both birds who's feathers stood up on their head or something lame like that. I cheered for the Expos mostly because I live about 2 hours from Montreal and would often go to their games when I would visit my uncle who lives there, but I doubt I'll care too much about the Nationals. The Oilers are a distant second in terms of hockey teams, partially due to the Gretzky years, but mostly because of their 1st round upsets over Dallas and Colorado in the late-90s. I looked forward to those Dallas/Edmonton playoff games almost as much as I did to the Leaf games.

Yeah.

As seen on the bottom of my last pay stub: CHRISTMAS DAY/Saturday, December 25 and >>> BOXING DAY/Sunday, December 26, ONTARIO ONLY <<< and NEW YEAR'S DAY, Saturday, January 1, 2005 : If you "meet the Statutory Holiday Pay requirements for your Province", the money will be Direct Deposited to your account by Friday, January 14, 2005..... PLEASE NOTE: The "deposit" for your Holiday Pay, will be "seperate" from your regular Weekly Pay deposit..... Stat Pay is based on an "average" day, which is calculated by taking 1/20th (=5%) of your "regular earnings, excluding overtime", in the 4 weeks before the Holiday..... Do not enter "hours" on your timeslip for the day of the Holiday, unless you actually "worked" that day. Instead, enter the word "Holiday"..... ENJOY THE HOLIDAY AND THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING MANPOWER!

For who?

Yeah, it was in '98. And Al looks like Pete Rose.

I'll sometimes try and catch whatever CHL games Sportsnet shows if there's nothing else on. I went to the OHL All-Star game last year, but I don't know if I'd make much effort to go to any other game aside from maybe the Memorial Cup. The local team is in the Jr. A (tier II) CJHL league and were in the national top 10 at one point earlier this year (they still may be, I'm not sure). I've been to a couple of their games this year, but that's only because I was volunteering for the local cable access guys, working one of the TV cameras. Very few players from the league go on to much success, the only 2 notables (and they're pretty big notables) are Larry Robinson and Steve Yzerman. I'm pretty sure Dainius Zubrus and Ray Sheppard spent some time in the league, too.

I love that line.

I'm not even circumcised.

-Joe Nieuwendyk vs. Patrick Lalime vol. 1 & 2 -Joe Sakic's clincher (well, I guess that's what it was) Olympic Gold Medal game in '02 And I always liked Owen Nolan's 'called' goal against Hasek in the All-Star game at San Jose.

So far, I've got: 24 - Season 1 & 2 Arrested Development - Season 1 Happy Days - Season 1 Joe Schmo - Season 1 Seinfeld - Season 1-3 The Simpsons - Season 1-5 Undergrads - Season 1 Without a Trace - Season 1 Plus both Conan discs, a handful of Best of SNL ones, plus the South Park 'Passion of the Jew' DVD. Unless my financial status takes a dive in the future sometime, I'll probably end up getting every Seinfeld and Simpsons set, and I'm definitely picking up Arrested Development season 2. If I can find 24 season 3 on the cheap in a few months, I'll get that, too.

It seems like it's on RDS (French TSN) everytime I put it on there.

Did I spell 'mattresses' right? It looks wrong.

-About $150 total in gift cards/certificates -Simpsons Season 2 -Without a Trace Season 1 -Comedian -Happy Gilmore/Billy Madison collection -Best of Will Ferrell Vol. 2 -America: The Book -2 shirts -some candy and chocolate -new slippers Pretty much got everything that I asked for, so no big complaints from me this year.

As gifts: -Without a Trace - Season 1 -The Simpsons - Season 2 -Saturday Night Live - The Best of Will Ferrell Vol. 2 -Happy Gilmore/Billy Madison -Comedian

It can't be that expensive. My dad bought approximately 13 cartons of it the other day and he's a cheap bastard.

I think some fat lady set off the weight sensor on this one door at work that's usually only set off by the forklifts.

I'll get it sometime after Christmas. Hopefully there's some Boxing Week sale to make it a bit cheaper.

I'd give Lost, Arrested Development, and Without A Trace something in the A range. Survivor and Apprentice I'd give Bs to, same with the Simpsons. I watched the first few episodes of Joey, but didn't think it was very good, so I'd probably give that a C. Anything that's lower than that I probably wouldn't watch on a regular basis.

It had somehow managed to slide between my 2 mattresses. It's a Christmas miracle.

When I left for work last night, I must have left it on the side of my desk. Right next to my desk is my garbage can. My garbage can was emptied sometime last night since Monday is garbage day. I've looked in every square inch of my room since I came home this morning and it is nowhere to be found. The only logical conclusion I can come to is that it fell into the garbage can before it was emptied. It is now sitting on the curb. I think I've guilted my dad into quickly looking through it when he leaves for work, but I'm not hopeful.

I've never felt this hopeless.

They could go the Anaheim route and refurbish it. It looks like a brand new place but the cost is much lower than building a new park.

The best thing was the reporter at the new conference the other day that kept asking what the baby was wearing when it was found. He seriously asked like 4 or 5 times and no one would answer him.

I propose a trade: Eric Hinske for Eric Gagne.