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Entries from November 2007

Back to California

November 24th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Devon was home for the Thanksgiving holidays, but is going back tomorrow (Sunday). I (Daryl) am going to ride back with him and spend a couple of days over there. Devon’s job is still in limbo, as the company (or remnants of) figure out what they are going to do. Sounds like they still want […]

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Free Rice

November 16th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Thank you Derek, for telling me about this website. Take a look at Free Rice. It’s a simple multiple-choice word definition game with a twist. For each word you get right, the page sponsors donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. It sounds like an Urban Legend or […]

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Goodbye David

November 13th, 2007 · 10 Comments

In my last post I talked about the basketball team I played on. David Chau was not on the team, but he practised with us a lot. Last Saturday night most of the team was together playing basketball (I wasn’t there), when David suddenly fell down unconscious. He died in the ambulance on the way […]

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Our Undefeating Season

November 2nd, 2007 · 4 Comments

In September I joined a Chandler City League basketball team. We played 8 games and went undefeating the whole season. We started out poorly, losing our first game by 40 points. The next few games were 30, 25, 15 and our high point of the season when we only lost by 6 points, to the […]

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