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Speaking of winning, Universal Studios Orlando had some deal where if you were one of the first 100,000 people to register at their site online after a specific commercial during the Super Bowl, you would win a 7 day pass to their parks.  I registered both Kimberlie and myself, ignorant of the fact that it was one winner per household.

I got an email today.  I won, she didn’t.  I’m not sure what to do with just one seven-day pass.  It expires on December 31.  I have Disney passes that go through December 20.  My frugal mind has an issue with buying another theme-park ticket (Universal) when I have an annual pass to the one right down the road (Disney).

How come I seem to always win useless stuff?  Why can’t I win the lottery or something?

This week at work, we had a chili-cook-off.  Basically the faculty and staff all cook pots of chili and the students go around and taste and vote on their favorites.  We even got t-shirts for the occasion.

My boss Chris and I both cooked for it.  He develops software on the side and I do occasional web development on the side, so we named our chili appropriately.  His was called Chili(beta) and mine was called Chili 2.0.

Now I do 99% of the cooking at my house, but I am by no means what you would consider a cook.  Yet somehow, I managed to get 5th place in the contest and picked up a whopping $5.00 gift card to Wal-Mart!  That just goes to prove that the majority of our law students are indeed . . . on crack.

This will end this blog’s fascination with 2.0 analogies.