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Here's your feel good story of the week. The short synopsis is: 5 foot 6 inch boy with autism who loves basketball, can't make the team, so becomes the team manager and does everything they ask of him for his entire high school career. Everybody loves him. In the final game (they are playing for a championship) he is allowed to suit up, and when they build a big lead the coach lets him into the game with 4 minutes left. And he proceeds to score 20 points in 4 minutes, with the entire gym cheering him on. The team carries him off the court on their shoulders.

You know, stories like that only happen in real life, it's too unbelievable to be fiction. ^_^

(Yeah, so genebreshears linked it already, I just noticed, heh!)

Okay now I feel compelled to add several more links to justify my blog entry. So here goes.

Offworld Designs has a web site. These are the guys who regularly design the Norwescon tee shirts and also did the Midwest Furfest tees this year. They really do have a lot of very clever geek/fan/otaku oriented designs, including probably a couple of Cthulhu designs that julesong hasn't seen yet. ^_^

I haven't linked to Engrish.com in a while. And who could resist Doo-Doo Rice Pop Brown Rice Bbungs?

And the Onion reports that the CIA had warned the White House about the potential threat of Dick Cheney shooting an elderly gentleman in the face.

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Success!

I remembered this morning that one of my goals for the weekend was to get rid of my remaining boxes (aside from those that go back to Chuck). So at 11:30 am I posted the boxes for free on Craig's List. I was thinking that I needed to get other things done later today and wishing I had thought to post earlier in the day, but I got a call within 15 minutes and 15 minutes after that two people came and claimed about half of the boxes, taking most of the large ones.

I went to update my post on Craig's List and was interrupted by another phone call. He didn't want any small boxes, so I went back to update my post again and was interrupted by yet another phone call. This person thought they might come by later in the day, they weren't sure, if I didn't hear from them then they weren't coming. I took that as a definite "probably not" and realized afterwards that I hadn't given them my apartment number anyway. Then another person called who wanted to come by right away and take everything else I had. She said she had to check something and call back, and when she called back she said she'd be by at 2 pm.

In between all of this I managed to file most of the massive piles of important paperwork that I had stacked on the coffee table, so now I feel much better organized. While doing this I noticed that Gene has used the headline "Spring Has Sprung!" on two different contributor newsletters. ^_^ Those were from several years ago, so he can probably do it again this year and most people wouldn't notice.

When Keith called to say that he was returning my dvds, I remembered that I wanted to lend some of Cardcaptor Sakura to Kristin, so I got those out, and decided to watch the first episode. Just as it finished there was a knock on the door -- perfect timing! A few minutes later, all of my boxes were gone! Woo! And it's only 2 pm, I still have time to get more things done today before the Tai-Pan meeting! First on that list would be fixing a very late breakfast, and then getting my oil changed for my car.