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The coffee pot at work stopped working a couple of days ago. I picked up some cans of Starbucks Double-Shot Espresso on the way to work this morning. I had hoped to buy a Thermos, but the Walgreens and 7-Eleven stores I went to didn't have any in stock.

I got a call about another match from the dating service yesterday. I'm going to do my best to actually communicate with and listen to my date this time. I normally freeze up and spend most of my time thinking about what to say instead of listening to what my date says.

141 days until the cruise!

Cuchi cuchi, Are you free?, Gimme Three Steps and Get me Rex Kramer!

Another post on LJ got me curious about who shares my birthday (January 15th.) I knew about Martin Luther King Jr. because a calendar I had as a kid listed it, even though I didn't know who he was back then and his birthday wasn't yet a federal holiday. Here's just a partial list:

# 1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
# 1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
# 1870 - Pierre S. du Pont, President of the DuPont company (d. 1954)
# 1902 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
# 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
# 1909 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
# 1913 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
# 1921 - Frank Thornton, English actor (Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served?)
# 1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
# 1941 - Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist
# 1941 - Charo, Spanish-born singer
# 1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
# 1947 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
# 1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
# 1955 - Nigel Benson, English author
# 1957 - Mario Van Peebles, American actor
# 1959 - Pete Trewavas, English bass guitarist (Marillion)
# 1962 - Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
# 1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
# 1969 - Delino DeShields, American baseball player
# 1971 - Regina King, American actress
# 1972 - Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter
# 1974 - Ray King, American baseball player
# 1975 - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter
# 1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player
# 1981 - Howie Day, American singer
# 1982 - Philip and Alexander, American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family