Tip: Look for guys who are happy to be there. Avoid Dudes who are too cool for the room.

What Your Looking For: Look for guys who can get along and have a good time just about anywhere. You'll want a chap who is open to going the bar, cool at the office, not adverse to the park, pleased to be camping, not finicky about were to go to dinner, and chill at your parents BBQ.

What Your Looking To Avoid: Avoid the dipsticks who can't seem to stop talking about where else they would rather be. Example "I'd Rather be back in France. America is so crude. In France I could eat cheese, drink wine, and watch passively as an enraged and oppressed French-Algerian burned my car." Or "How do you survive here? This is horrible. This is why I never want to leave Manhattan. I can't go without my 24 hour a day Sushi, or the trendy and pretentious Sake bar, or the alternative atmosphere of Pasgustramini's Espresso Shoppe, or the latest fashions of the boutiques on South 5th Broad Parkway Avenue, or the silent desperation of millions of people living on-top of each other in lonely wretched debt who gaze at you with their soulless eyes and don't give a damn whether you live or die. I could never leave all that."

Why it matters: At first Joe-I'm-Too-Cool will seem like quite the worldly catch. But his BS will wear thin quick. When it does you'll tell him "If its so great then just go live there". And surprise... surprise! He'll have all manner of excuses why he can't.

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I'm making a habit of eating at Duane's Sausage and Specialties. In fact, I just got back from there. I recommend you try it.

Duane's is relatively new. It's located where Spagatini's used to be at 26 North Main. (I would give you a link to a map but Google, Yahoo, and Mapquest all suck and put it in Walkerville.) I tend to eat lunch there on Saturday because it's immediately adjacent to the Farmer's Market. Oh, And it's utterly delightful.

The big thing at Duane's is high quality meat, specifically buffalo. I've devoured a few buffalo burgers and highly recommend them. I've also dined on the grilled pork loin sandwich, also excellent. Duane's also carries premade subs, deli stuff, and preservative free turnovers made by the Amish. (I'm saving my last one for this evening)

Duane also sells frozen meat like a good butcher shop. This week I'll be eating some ground buffalo dishes. I also recommend the pancetta wrapped buffalo filet mignon. That was awesome.

Duane's is a family-run locally owned business, so you can feel good about frequenting it.

The store front doesn't represent the business very well. It would be easy to walk right by it. But that's OK, it makes it our little secret. The front of Duane's Sausage and Specialties is full of brick-a-brack. Just ignore all that and walk towards the back were the good eating awaits.

• 16th - Double Buffalo Burger with Bacon. $5.95
• 18th - 2 Buffalo Frankfurters with Sauerkraut. $4.95
• 19th - 1/2 Pound Ground Round Cheese Burger. $4.95
• 20th - 1/2 Pound Mild Italian Sausage. $4.25
• 21th - Grilled Pork Loin Sandwich. $4.25
• 22th - Grilled Roast Turkey Sandwich. $4.95
• 23th - Pudgie Burger - 1/2 Pound Bavarian Sausage, 1/2 Pound Ground Buffalo Patty with Cheese. $6.50
• 25th - Grilled Buffalo Cube Steak Sandwich. $5.75
• 26th - Boneless Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich. $4.95
• 27th - 1/2 Pound Grilled Sausage Had with Melted Swiss Cheese. $4.25
• 28th - Old Fashioned Chili Cheese Dog. $3.75
• 29th - 1/2 Pound Buffalo Bacon Cheeseburger. $4.95
• 30th - 1/2 Pound Hot Italian Sausage Sandwich with Provolone Cheese. $4.25

Order ahead at 406-782-3030. You know you want to.

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I love online IQ Tests.

See... Online IQ tests are a scam. The goal is to get you to fork over your credit card information for a subscription to some likely worthless "service". But how do they do that? Well simple, they make you think your only buying the full results of your IQ test, usually for not much (like $9.99). And how do they make you want to spend for the test? Well the make the sample results look intriguing. And how do they make the sample results look intriguing? Well they give you an easy test and tell you your a genius. If you just finished a 50 question online quiz only to find out the refrigerator light in your brain has burnt out you'd be a bit sour and thus unlikely to buy the full test results(and the corresponding $19.95/mo subscription to the website.)

So if they are a scam why do I like them? Well because at the end of the quiz they tell me I'm a genius. See:

And who doesn't like to be told how special they are? Just as long as I don't actually buy the stupid test results I can still respect myself in the morning.

Take the same Tickle.com IQ test. Just keep your Master Card tucked away.

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In November of last year I was bemoaning my fancy (but ooh so sucky) Audiovox 6600. Well things haven't improved. My favorite is when it crashes when you answer. No, wait! My favorite is when it just fails to ring. No, Wait! My favorite is when it forgets it has ever been turned on, reinstalls the OS, erases all the data, and requires you to reset all the retarded default settings to make it useable. Oh, Wait! My favorite is that no matter what I do the answer button has permanently switched to "show me my appointments", the hang-up button has switched to "Show me my list of phone numbers", and the left arrow (yes just the left one) has changed to "show me my to-do list". Well. Those were some of my favorites over the past year. But this morning my Audiosucks gave up the ghost for good. So now my new favorite is: Refuses to turn on.

So for the time being I'm using an office cell phone. (406) 498-1907. You might think I'm crazy putting my cell phone number online but I figure it like this. 1.) It's faster than calling all of you 2.) My phone number has been online for years now and it hasn't been an issue.

The new phone has a few diffrent rings. They all sound like I just saved Zelda.

My contract expires the 22nd so I'll be getting a new fancy phone then. This time I'll be avoiding all Windows Mobile suckage and going for a Palm or other such device. I'm sure your on the edge of your seat.

I'm sure some guy is reading this post from his condemned double-wide outside Battle Mountain Nevada, and wondering how pretentious I must be too I piss and moan so much about my fancy phone. And I say "Screw you hippy! Just because your life sucks doesn't me we all have to suffer. If you don't like it then don't read my blog!".

Hugs and kisses!

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I'm entirely displeased with the new look of the website. I Love this new design. Lets never speak of that other thing again. How do you feel about it? One good thing is that it's now compatable with FireFox.

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