Andreas Matern's Weblog http://andreas.materns.com/wordpress Random Brain Droppings Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:31:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Sixty Four Comes In Peace at RileySmile.com http://andreas.materns.com/wordpress/archives/645 http://andreas.materns.com/wordpress/archives/645#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:31:38 +0000 andreas http://andreas.materns.com/wordpress/?p=645 Happy Fourth of July! It’s been a good week. And now, I’m on vacation. Going to a family thing later today, then we are packing up our stuff to spend a week on the cape! Very exciting.

RileySmile posted a new dance track, if you’re into that sort of thing.

I am going to clean up this house and get going. If I don’t blog, well, its because of vacation! Woohoo! I am honestly trying to unplug for an entire week. Will I start shaking? Who knows.

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I’m a big fan, but I won’t be reading this short until I get to vacation land!  WOOHOO! Vacation!

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Oh please play In My Tree and Lukin and …

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I gotta read this in detail later, but here’s linkage: ScienceRoll.

And here’s a quick pic:

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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats # 867

Originally uploaded by Ape Lad

Yup, Mars has ice.

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Fantastic!  Click the picture to watch the movie.

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Story is here.

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What a fantastic orator.

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