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I'd be up for that; hopefully the roads aren't messy as was stated above...maybe we'll get a good rain between now and then.

Honestly they'll probably repackage and market the thing to ravers or something. If it zapped a person it'd probably tickle; all it does is burn off the mosquito's wings, so it's probably not powerful enough to do much damage to a person...at least not much damage as long as they don't just stand there and let it zap away for an extended period of time

Whew, I'm gunna sleep well tonight. Didn't expect to skate that hard haha Great meeting and playing with everyone tonight, thanks again Joe for organizing that and for the ride to the rink

Grats

Just had an early dinner of tacos and beer and then had a nice couch nap. Oh yeah, it's hockey time

http://store.nike.com//index.jsp?country=US&lang_locale=en_US&sitesrc=USiD#l=shop,pdp,ctr-inline/cid-1/pid-204847/pgid-122932 Just ordered a pair of those myself. Cost me $6.50 out of pocket. Where I work, we get tons and tons of Coke products and the packaging is just thrown away, so I wander into the store room with my pocket knife and take all the Coke Rewards Points codes. Got 100$ in Nike gift cards doing that I'da kept doing it longer but Coke really nerfed the system so I just cashed in when I had the chance. My roommate got an iPod touch for like, 12$ out of pocket doing the same thing when he worked with me. I don't even bother with the points anymore though; the system is terrible now

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/18/business/fed.php It baffles me that we as a country still let the value of our money be controller by a private organization that more or less answers to no one. F the Fed. Fed to pump another $1 trillion into U.S. economy By Edmund L. Andrews Wednesday, March 18, 2009 WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve sharply stepped up its efforts to bolster the economy on Wednesday, announcing that it would pump an extra $1 trillion into the financial system by purchasing Treasury bonds and mortgage securities. Having already reduced the key interest rate it controls nearly to zero, the central bank has increasingly turned to alternatives like buying securities as a way of getting more dollars into the economy, a tactic that amounts to creating vast new sums of money out of thin air. But the moves on Wednesday were its biggest yet, almost doubling all of the Fed's measures in the last year. The action makes the Fed a buyer of long-term government bonds rather than the short-term debt that it typically buys and sells to help control the money supply. The idea was to encourage more economic activity by lowering interest rates, including those on home loans, and to help the financial system as it struggles under the crushing weight of bad loans and poor investments. Investors responded with surprise and enthusiasm. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down about 50 points just before the announcement, jumped immediately and ended the day up almost 91 points at 7,486.58. Yields on long-term Treasury bonds dropped markedly, and analysts predicted that interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages would soon drop below 5 percent. But there were also clear indications that the Fed was taking risks that could dilute the value of the dollar and set the stage for future inflation. Gold prices rose $26.60 an ounce, hitting $942, a sign of declining confidence in the dollar. The dollar, which had been losing value in recent weeks to the euro and the yen, dropped sharply again on Wednesday. In its announcement, the central bank said that the United States remained in a severe recession and listed its continuing woes, from job losses and lost housing wealth to falling exports as a result of the worldwide economic slowdown. "In these circumstances, the Federal Reserve will employ all available tools to promote economic recovery and to preserve price stability," the central bank said. As expected, policy makers decided to keep the Fed's benchmark interest rate on overnight loans in a range between zero and 0.25 percent. But to the surprise of investors and analysts, the committee said it had decided to purchase an additional $750 billion worth of government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities on top of the $500 billion that the Fed is already in the process of buying. In addition, the Fed said it would buy up to $300 billion worth of longer-term Treasury securities over the next six months. That would tend to push down longer-term interest rates on all types of loans. All these measures would come in addition to what has already been an unprecedented expansion of lending by the Fed. The central bank also said it would probably expand the scope of a new program to finance consumer and business lending, which gets under way this week. In effect, the central bank has been lending money to a wider and wider array of borrowers, and it has financed that lending by using its authority to create new money at will. Since last September, the Fed's lending programs have roughly doubled the size of its balance sheet, to about $1.8 trillion, from $900 billion. The actions announced on Wednesday are likely to expand that to well over $3 trillion over the next year. Despite a trickle of encouraging data in the last few weeks, Fed officials were clearly still worried and in no mood to cut back on their emergency efforts. Fed policy makers sharply reduced their economic forecasts in January, predicting that the economy would continue to experience steep contractions for the first half of 2009, that unemployment could approach 9 percent by the end of the year and that there was at least a small risk of a drop in consumer prices like those that Japan experienced for nearly a decade. The Fed rarely buys long-term government bonds. The last occasion was nearly 50 years ago under different economic circumstances when it tried to reduce long-term interest rates while allowing short term rates to rise. Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, has been extremely cautious in recent weeks about predicting an end to the recession, saying that he hoped to see the start of a recovery later this year but warning that unemployment, a lagging indicator, would probably keep climbing until some time in 2010. In contrast to several recent Fed decisions, with the presidents of some regional Fed banks dissenting, the decision at Wednesday's meeting of the 10 members of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's policy making group, was unanimous. Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said the Fed had adopted a "kitchen sink" strategy of throwing everything it had to jolt the economy out of its downward spiral. But while Mr. Hatzius applauded the decision, he cautioned that the central bank could not solve the economy's problems by expanding cheap money. "Even if the Fed could make interest rates negative, that wouldn't necessarily help," Mr. Hatzius said. "We're in a deep recession mainly because the private sector, for a variety of reasons, has decided to save a lot more. You can have a zero interest rate, but if you just offer more money on top of the money that is already available, it doesn't do that much." Fed officials have been wrestling for months with the fact that lenders remain unwilling to lend and borrowers are unwilling or unable to borrow. Even though the Fed has been creating money at the fastest rate in its history, much of that money has remained dormant. The Fed's action is an expansion of its effort to bypass the private banking system and act as a lender in its own right. The Fed and the Treasury are starting a joint venture this week called the Consumer and Business Lending Initiative in their latest effort to thaw the still-frozen credit markets. The program will start out with $200 billion in financing for consumer loans, small-business loans and some corporate purposes. Fed officials have said they hope to expand the program next month, possibly to include the huge market for commercial mortgages, and both the Fed and Treasury hope the program will eventually provide up to $1 trillion in total financing.

I won't find out till closer to game time if he's coming or not, but if you wouldn't mind bringing it along just in case it'd be appreciated. Also, Paddy O Furniture, you still able to swing by my place on your way? If not it's no big deal, looks like it'll be a nice night out so a walk wouldn't kill me.

There are upsides to this mess. I might look into consolidating/refinancing my student loans this summer; I've heard of some people saving bags of money doing that right now.

Welcome! Haha, the 650's are multiplying; this makes at least 4 of us on this board, 3 of who have the same exhaust (arrow)

I know yota was planning on being out of town sometime early next week; I asked him about tire work and he said he'd be away. Dunno if he was leaving as early as tomorrow though. I might be able to get one or two people. My roommate was interested but he's not big on the idea of playing unless he can bum a helmet off of someone. My supervisor at work apparently plays for the womens club hockey team and said she'd be up for a game, so I can call her tomorrow if we need people

There's a 7 am on Saturdays? I thought noon was as early as time existed on weekends... I might be in, what kind of food is it?

Wow. I'm so used to reading stories posted here about riders going down that we don't know, and after a while it's sort of like "another day another biker wrecks", but this really hits home knowing it was one of our own RIP Kenny; never knew ya but we're all riders and we all mourn your loss

I was going to get the Speedmaster pants until I looked at the difference between them and the Blaster pants, and really couldn't justify the price difference. The Speedmasters look cooler, but both pairs are good looking pieces of gear in my opinion so I decided to save a few bucks on pants...I'll probably use the price difference to upgrade the armor in the whole suit sometime soon. Honestly I can't express how thrilled I am that this whole suit has come together so well. The pants fit into my Sidi's without any issue or discomfort, the neck on the jacket and my helmet don't get in eachothers way at all, and everything fits perfectly and looks amazing. Only piece that I don't have with me are my A* Merc long gloves, but I've used em for a season and already know they fit perfectly. This gunna be a good riding season

Just got the suit Fits like a glove and looks fantastic. The only downside is that the jacket, for whatever reason, doesn't have a 360 degree zipper, just the small 8 inch one in the back. The perforated version has the 360 one, and both versions of the pants (which are meant to go with the blaster jacket) also have both types, but for some reason the solid jacket only has the 8 inch one. Which is sort of a bummer and quite unexpected, but whatever...not like I'm planning on doing any track days right now, and I can always find a tailor to stitch the mating half of the 360 degree zipper into the jacket if I really want to. Anyone know of any shops that do alterations on these types of garments?

Mint, you say? 2009 Kawasaki ER-6n Soooo hot:

Notice how business-related majors aren't even mentioned? It's cuz we ALL got f'd by the economic meltdown:mad:

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I can make a badass Excel spreadsheet. Yeah, that's right. And if the need arises, I can even being in Word and really mix things up. Fools don't know bout my Office skillz. *is happy he'll probably never have a job in IT, and that computers will forever be a hobby*

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french (gotta get that post count up, what can I say )

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I'll have to hit ya up here in early April sometime; I've only been to Coshocton once or twice and really don't know the roads, but it's an area I really wanna get familiar with and ride more often