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Rolling blackouts are back in style! At least that's what the energy companies tell us. My grid was hit yesterday afternoon but luckily the TiVo resets itself and there's so little food in the fridge that I didn't have to worry. Hopefully if we have more blackouts my street will be exempt.

Tonight is movie night and it looks like The Brothers Grimm is our choice. It only scored 41% on the tomatometer, but that's 41% better than Ashlee Simpson's movie Undiscovered. It's a rare thing not to have at least one person like your movie so this one must really suck!

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