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60% humidity and nearly 100 °F. Gotta love the Oklahoma summers. Even though Tucson was much hotter, I'd take 100 degrees there over 80 degrees here. The humidity makes it nearly unbearable. Looks like I will have to crank up the air conditioning for the next couple months. It's gonna be a hot one. Can't wait to see the electric bill...

60% humidity and nearly 100 °F. Gotta love the Oklahoma summers. Even though Tucson was much hotter, I'd take 100 degrees there over 80 degrees here. The humidity makes it nearly unbearable. Looks like I will have to crank up the air conditioning for the next couple months. It's gonna be a hot one. Can't wait to see the electric bill...

I drive a 98 Ford Windstar minivan.  I've had it for about a year and a half and it's got over 173k miles.  Tuesday, it decided to spill coolant from one of the steel return lines.  It was basically a small pinhole leak, and it looked like when you drop a soda can and it starts to spray out its contents.  Unfortunately, it happened on my lunchbreak.  I started hearing a squeal, and when I pulled over to check it out, I could smell the coolant.  Oh crap, I thought.  It had gotten on the serpentine belt and was causing a squeal, but it hadn't lost enough coolant to cause the engine to get hot

I drive a 98 Ford Windstar minivan.  I've had it for about a year and a half and it's got over 173k miles.  Tuesday, it decided to spill coolant from one of the steel return lines.  It was basically a small pinhole leak, and it looked like when you drop a soda can and it starts to spray out its contents.  Unfortunately, it happened on my lunchbreak.  I started hearing a squeal, and when I pulled over to check it out, I could smell the coolant.  Oh crap, I thought.  It had gotten on the serpentine belt and was causing a squeal, but it hadn't lost enough coolant to cause the engine to get hot

I had this somewhat low on my Gamefly queue and it came in on Saturday.  After finishing up the yardwork and getting a nasty sunburn, I spent several hours Saturday and several more on Sunday playing it.  I have to say, I'm impressed and will not hesitate to pick up the third installment if/when it comes out.  I'm roughly halfway through the single player campaign, but haven't touched the multiplayer yet.  Here are my thoughts on the SP mode:

I had this somewhat low on my Gamefly queue and it came in on Saturday.  After finishing up the yardwork and getting a nasty sunburn, I spent several hours Saturday and several more on Sunday playing it.  I have to say, I'm impressed and will not hesitate to pick up the third installment if/when it comes out.  I'm roughly halfway through the single player campaign, but haven't touched the multiplayer yet.  Here are my thoughts on the SP mode:

Since Last.fm is soon to be coming to the Xbox 360, I thought I'd give it another shot.  I had tried it out previously and wasn't really impressed.  It had a decent enough interface, but it really didn't seem to find music I liked.  Apparently, they've got that straightened out.  I don't know if they just have more music available, or if they've improved the algorithm, but it now seems to find all kinds of good stuff that I enjoy.  They even have a geek rock radio station.  How cool is that?  You

Since Last.fm is soon to be coming to the Xbox 360, I thought I'd give it another shot.  I had tried it out previously and wasn't really impressed.  It had a decent enough interface, but it really didn't seem to find music I liked.  Apparently, they've got that straightened out.  I don't know if they just have more music available, or if they've improved the algorithm, but it now seems to find all kinds of good stuff that I enjoy.  They even have a geek rock radio station.  How cool is that?  You