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I am so good at telling it now I can simpily summarize my trip to different length of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I heard some good news from Verona about her progress. Hopefully me and Pat could go out with them for a double date sometime soon.  She has been collecting my email at work, and I recieved a mysterious package containing a PMC watch and a nice PMC folder.  I have no idea who and why sent the gift to me.  I suspect it is related to the suggest I made to Uncle Bob.<\/p>\n<p>Air Canada is really screwed up, I received one of my luggages today, and is the not so important one only has lots of dirty clothes.  I rather they delivery my backpack which has all my valuables and then let me claim the $800 insurance for baggage lost on my dirty clothes.  Let&#8217;s see when I will get my other luggage back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still in a holiday mood today, even though I had to go back to work. 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