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Ooooooooooooh!  Look at the email I got from U2.com today!

Hmmm.  They say it's for subscribers.  I did renew at the start of this year, and they sent me this email, so hopefully that means I will be getting one in the mail !!  Sorry Bono, I am not renewing again since I don't need any presale codes for BOSTON since you are skipping us?!  (hmmmmph!)

Artificial Horizon

The email  :

Dear Crush Monkey,

The wait is over.

We now have exclusive first details of the special remix album the band have put together for subscribers. 

It's called 'Artificial Horizon' and it features 13 stunning U2 remixes including several never previously released. 

Just to give you a taster, we can reveal that the tracklisting includes Trent Reznor's remix of Vertigo, Jackknife Lee's remix of Fast Cars and David Holmes's remix of Beautiful Day. Then there are mesmerising remixes of Staring At The Sun, City of Blinding Lights, and If God Will Send His Angels.... 

We'll be posting full details of the album on the site in the next few days. But you'll be the first to get it - and this limited edition release CD won't be in the shops. 

best wishes for the holiday season

from all at U2.Com.

James Cameron’s AVATAR is in theaters today. What about this movie interests you the most?

NOTHING!!!!  WHAT ARE THOSE BLUE PEOPLE IN THE TRAILERS??

it's 17 degrees here today.  that's all I wanted to say.

Video shop
Originally uploaded by What What.

My student was sharing with me a cool search tip with google & bing and from a picture of a happy box of french fries or something..I found this. What What on flickr takes a lot of pictures of signage & statues & a lot of them are from Japan..this one..well..seriously, what is going on here? I don't want to know....HA!

What would it take to get you to start a new life on a new world?

Will my family and crush monkey be there?!  : )

My friend Leslie loves Domo!  LOL!

I saw this little guy tonight and knew he had to go home to her! 

Tee heeeee!

Santa domo

What are you hoping to find under the tree this year?

Dear Santa Claus, How have you been? Did you have a nice summer?
How is your wife? I have been extra good this year, so I have a long list of presents that I want.

Please note the size and color of each item, and send as many as possible. If it seems too complicated, make it easy on yourself: just send money. How about tens and twenties? 

All I want is what I... I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share. 

That is the best quote from 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' !!!

Under my Christmas tree....just the crush monkey please Santa.  : D

How has technology changed the way you watch movies and listen to music?

iTunes !!!!!

For really real too.

October 17th, 2009, the day of inf...infaminy, inf... the day of reckoning!

I had a pretty normal day until that late afternoon when I felt like I had bad gas. Indigestion from he-double hockey sticks.

I went to bed that night and woke up around 2 am with this gnawing pain in the center of my chest. So I got up and the wife came along with me to the hospital. They checked my heart, took an x-ray, took some blood and found nothing really wrong. So they assumed I had the beginings of a virus, they gave me a prescription and sent me on my way.

I went back to bed, at least I tried to...

I woke up many hours later and the pain had moved South East.

Uh oh...

I headed back to the hospital and the same staff were still on duty and immediately saw me.

The Doctor took more blood and while the results still looked ok, he knew my appendix was going out. They put me on an IV and admitted me. I did not appear to be in any danger, they thought I had time... and so testing was scheduled the next day.

That was when they saw that my gall bladder had already given up and died out.

The surgeon on duty turned out to be the same surgeon I had before for a minor surgery. He talked to me about the small incisions they would make and how they would remove the gall bladder on Tuesday along with the appendix.

Tuesday arrived, I was in pain and could no longer use the bathroom. They came to take me away around noon for this simple procedure.

I woke up and it was nighttime and I was so heavily sedated that I did not find out how my gallbladder surgery went smoothly, but when they got to the appendix it had ruptured already and it had ruptured into my colon and my insides were filling with poison.

It took me hours for it all to sink in, how in danger I was and yet I found it hard to get worked up about. I was now in the safe zone, covered in bandages, IVs and cathaters. Kinda hard to get worried when I am recovering. I had to basically relearn how to walk. I was in the hospital a full week before I even ate a single bite of food.

So how am I now? 98% better. I am still weak, but I am working on building stamina. I live...