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I am dissatisfied with my salary increase from my annual review. I don't care if it's "in line with the company average," I think salaries should AT LEAST be kept in line with inflation. (FYI: the Consumer Price Index shows inflation at a rate of 3.9% between 2005 & 2006.)

Our Team is better than yours, damn right it's better than yours. We could teach you, but we'd have to charge.

We are the super winners! Tonight was trivia night at Bob's parents' church. We reconvened our previous power team (back in April we tied for first and lost at the tie-breaker because we underestimated ourselves), where we blew out the competition. We led for the entire game. Each round when they would show the scores, they'd say "And Team Eleven is in the lead with ## points." Then a bunch of people would turn and look at us. Team Eleven rules (Team Motto: "We're so number 1, we're 11"). I think we ended up ahead by around 9 points. We'd figured out that in the last round that we only had to answer two correctly and nobody could beat us.

Categories (and our ROCKIN' scores):

News of the week (10/10) - Jen was doing some awesome work in this category, getting a couple that were puzzling the rest of us (What corporation announced plans to stop selling junk food and go "lean"? Disney; McClaskill & Talent were portrayed in a political cartoon as participants in what television show that preempted their debate? Dancing w/the Stars)

Movie/TV vehicles (12/15) - This category gave bonus points if you could identify the car's name (not make) when appropriate. We missed the Green Hornet's car--and it's nickname, but we got the rest and 3 of the other nicknames (KITT, Batmobile, General Lee).

Quarters (10/10) - They'd show the back of the state quarter with the state name blocked out. Big team effort here, perfect score.

Fictional Locations (10/10) - Description of a location from a book or movie. Katie and I wondered if we would get a bonus point if we put Brigadoon and Hogsmeade as the answer for "magical town in the Scottish highlands".

Retired Jersey #s (8/10) - They give the team & number, you identify the player. This was all Bob & his dad.

Jelly Belly Identification (4/10) - 10 different types of jelly bellys that you had to identify by taste. BY FAR the hardest category. Only two teams got more points than us on this one, and they were both pretty far behind us. Katie was our Jelly Belly afficianado, and even she was getting stumped.

Billboard slogans (7/10) - The slogan off a billboard in town, and you have to identify the company behind the add--Can you think of the name of the company with all the "Ug buys Ugly Houses" signs? We couldn't.

Sheet music for children's songs (9/10) - Pretty tricky, would have been even harder for a team where nobody had any idea how to read music.

Leaf Identification (8/10) - photos of leaves from trees native to Missouri. This was another one where Katie was the super star, as her dad spent many years working for the St. Ann Parks Dept (and used to make her identify trees).

Scary movies (9/10) - Self-explanatory. Though we did think about just answering 3 or 4 and writing "Team Eleven is Awesome" on the rest of the lines.

They had the Cardinals game projected on a screen at the front of the room, and everybody was going crazy watching our boys kick some ass in Detroit. Then Bob explained to Jen and me how this means that the Cards now have Home Field Advantage in the series.
Just saw Keenan Thompson as Flavor Flav on SNL, it was threatening to drift into his Cosby voice from time to time.

Bob explained to me that YouTube will resize your videos FOR you, so I uploaded the video of my odometer rolling over and the squirrel: