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Cousin’s Wedding
How do you top an awesome Christmas party? With an awesome wedding, of course. After a good long engagement, my cousin finally got married. It was a perfect ad for Catholic schools: two kids meet in elementary (Catholic) school and grow up, get together, and get married. At 21. But when you’ve been dating since…
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Office Christmas Party 2010
One of the things I really look forward to at my job is the holidays in December. They’ve always held a certain special significance for me. My first real office Christmas party was two years ago, and it was a pretty awesome experience. Couple that with the customer breakfast we have on or around the…
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While I was out…
This is probably going to serve as some kind of meta-post. What will follow will be a series of fully detailed posts I’ve been meaning to deliver over the last few days and haven’t gotten to yet. Read on, click on, or simply ignore for a day. What have I been up to lately? Office…
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Burn Notice (Spoilers!)
If you like Burn Notice and have not seen the season 4 finale, stop reading right now. Hit the Back button or close your browser or do…something. Anything. Just don’t keep reading. I’ll try to keep it vague, but some things you just can’t suppress. Tonight was the finale for Season 4 of Burn Notice.…
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Man vs. Treadmill
I’m not much of a runner. Let’s just start with that. I can bike or walk briskly for a good distance, I can usually last a couple of intense rounds of ultimate frisbee, and I can push myself pretty hard in soccer, but if you pointed at a treadmill and told me to log a…
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Well, we still lost.
But not because I was on goal, because I wasn’t. We got someone else from the Rangers to sub in for us, and it went pretty well. Instead of a blowout game we lost by a more reasonable score (8-4), and while we kind of gave away the first five points, we made them work…
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Listless
Tonight I find myself wondering where all the time went. Seriously. Tomorrow: Sam’s Club with my mom to restock my freezer, Christmas cookie baking for Friday night’s office party/cookie exchange, my debut as goalie at a 4pm soccer game, and presentation prep for a VoIP phone demo on Monday morning at 9. Monday night there’s…
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Of futures and goalkeeping
So today’s lunch was not an Amway pitch. It was a pitch for financial planning instead. That, I can handle. I should probably start putting some kind of plan together…the markets have probably hit the point where they’re scraping along the bottom, and this would be a good time to get back in. And it’s…
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He’s like Batman for computers
Last night I was running some firmware upgrades on a customer’s server in an office about an hour and a half away from here when it turned itself into a vegetable. No response to pings, no KVM connectivity anymore…it just sat there. I figured there was a stuck key or something, so I let it…
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Culinary to-do list: 2011 version
It’s entirely possible that I will update this list throughout the year, but I thought I would keep a list of the things I’d like to either re-learn how to make or learn, period. Some of these are things that my mom makes, and some of them are things that I’ve seen and want to…
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