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Dear Sam LaGrassa's:

I concur that you do indeed make the world's number one sandwiches. Thank you.

love,
Jenn

AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

Seriously guys, they hand out the pamphlets right at the entrance to the park:

Stay away from buffalo!

Buffalo tosses woman in the air at Yellowstone

Google Search for warning

And by the way, these are really bison. There are no buffalo native to North America. Here is a helpful link on the difference between buffalo and bison and the origin of the misnomer.

As you probably know and are sick of hearing about, we are trying to pick our 5th (or maybe 6th?) paint color attempt for the living room. I fully acknowledge that everyone thinks we're insane. We're just trying to do a good job with our place so that we don't hate it in 6 months and want to change things.

We recently got two paint samples from Benjamin Moore and the one that we liked better on the wall was Woodcliff Lake:

(No, that's not our livingroom. Settle down.)

But, we are a little worried it is too dark and/or too brown (we prefer a grayer tone). So, we are now considering the two below colors, which I realize are probably barely distinguishable from each other.

Dolphin:

and Chelsea Gray:

I'm not even asking you to vote, though I assume at least one person might have an opinion. I'm just trying to explain to you the joys of paint. You'd think I could do a better job picking colors and being sure about it since I was an art major. I guess I'm not the painting kind of art major. I should stick to line drawing and black and white photography I guess. SIGH.

So far this summer have gone on several bike rides of about 30 miles or so. Friday night we decided that today (Saturday) we would step it up. We opted to do a 50 mile ride starting from the BU bridge - which means about 65 miles total because we have to ride from East Boston to the BU bridge to start the ride, and then get our tired asses home afterwards.

In order to facilitate this, Rob, who had slept very late on Friday, stayed up all night Friday night to get us up early - at 4:15 - so we could start the ride. He is a total superstar for doing this - and maybe a little insane. Who stays up all night and then rides 65 miles on a bicycle? Rob Reed, that's who.

We were on the road by 5am.

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I decided about 6 years ago that there is really no reason to like summer anymore. I know summer is supposed to be a time of fun and vacations, but I think that's really just a trick leftover from when we were all in school.

Since I'm a grown up and I can take a trip or do something fun, in theory, anytime I please, summer holds no special joy for me. In fact, summer is too hot, so I hereby declare it my least favorite season.

But it still tries to trick me. Case in point, please observe the pretty photo below (sorry for the bad resolution, all I had on my was a phone):

Now please note that while the sky and clouds are lovely and the reflection in the Hancock tower is pretty cool, it was roughly 90 degrees and 8000% humidity when I took this and my shirt was basically plastered to me with sweat. Don't get excited, it was not a pretty picture.

So I don't want to deny anyone any summer pleasures that they enjoy. I mean, there are some specific things that happen to take place during the summer that I enjoy such as Shakespeare on the Common and Free Friday Flicks and the Woods Hole Film Festival.

However, please note that in order of preference of seasons, I rank them thusly:

1. Fall
2. Winter
3. Spring (because really, spring in New England is one half winter that everyone's sick of and one half summer, which, as I've already explained, is my least favorite)
4. Summer

Thanks for playing summer, you lose.

My brother Dan first sent me an article related to this years ago, but here's a refresher for you, everyone:

PETA regularly kills animals needlessly

There are lots of related links in the article. Please go check them out.

PETA, I hate you more than I think I hate anything else in this world, and that's saying a lot.

I can't even think about this anymore right now. I can't fathom why PETA still exists, unless its entire purpose is to drive me out of my mind completely.

Here is something completely hilarious.

First of all, this video, by a Best Buy employee, which apparently got him fired:

It's funny for many reasons, but unfortunately, even if the customer in the video is an idiot, the guy is also kind of a total douche. Rob made a response, which is the best thing ever. Please watch:

Yes, he stayed up all night to make that, but it was worth it.

Mad as hell

Listen folks, I'm angry about a lot of things lately.

I won't torture my fellow animal lovers with any links but because we have recently lost all our furry pets (our turtle Bridget is still going strong) I'm especially prone to do things like go to petfinder.com and visit various animal rescue websites etc. and mostly all they do is make me cry or make me want to murder people for being cruel to animals. Honestly, as anyone who's been reading for a while might know, I hold basically any animal in higher regard than any human being in the general population. If you can't imagine why, here are just a few reasons:

• Dogs being slaughtered in China
• Space Junk
• Guy holds his daughter hostage and makes her bear his children
• Vortex of garbage
• Pit bulls aren't bad dogs
• Mitt Romney is a monster

If you still don't understand my feelings, please leave now and don't come back. Seriously, there is no reason for you to continue here. You and I don't get along and even though I haven't met you, I'm pretty sure I hate you. Eff off.

Sleep deprivation as method for Getting Things Done

1. You might get your turtle tank and filter completely clean, but in the morning you will feel shaky and weak and have to ingest large amounts of sugar ASAP.

2. You are likely to make poor decisions such as wearing your chinos with the tattered hems to work.

3. Around 3pm you will wish you were dead.

Dear DirecTV installation man: please make my dreams come true.

Many are the reasons to hate comcast. Not the least of which is, they are a virtual monopoly. Way back in the day when we lived in Charlestown, the one silver lining to that shitty apartment was that we were allowed to install a satellite dish, and thus we had the glory of DirecTV for almost 2 entire years. Guess what? Despite the fact that things like storms can supposedly affect reception, we got better service with less interruption there than we have ever gotten from cable ever. Ever.

Today I have an installation scheduled for our condo. The guy is due to show up between 4pm and 8pm. I am nervous because I'm not sure where the hell he's going to string the cable to get it into our unit. I'm trying to believe them when they say, "Oh, don't sorry, the cabling guys are great, they know just what to do." I'm trying to ignore the fact that they can't tie into my existing cable line from Comcast because I still need Comcast for internet access, unfortunately. I'm trying to believe.

By 8pm I will either be soooooo happy, or I'll be looking for things to throw and break.

We are killing the oceans.

I am pretty sure I've mentioned this before.

Read this short little article from Chevy and Jayni Chase about how our lack of interest and attention in the bodies of water that cover over 70% of the planet are killing it and all the life it contains.

Since people are paying attention for five minutes right now because of the catastrophe BP created in the Gulf of Mexico, maybe we can start doing something about it. You know, before everyone loses interest again.

Don't eat fish unless it was caught sustainably.

Don't eat blue fin tuna or shark fin anything at all ever.

Write your representative.

Pay attention.