Category: Ruminations
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Activites I have latent skills in
Soccer Ultimate Frisbee Dodgeball Underwater basket weaving? (I’ve never tried) Malware detection and removal (in most cases) I suppose that’s why we practice these things. Including running. My showdown with the treadmill was this morning, and I managed to hit my goal. I did two quarter-mile “laps” at a reasonable pace (read: brisk jog), then…
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…and there you have it, folks.
You’ve squashed another three-day weekend listening to Car Talk. Or something like that. Regrettably, none of the weekend was spent listening to Car Talk, although now that they have it in podcast form, I might have to listen to it while I am rebuilding a bunch of virtual servers tomorrow. Instead, there was the previously…
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2011: now with that fresh, new year smell!
I had originally planned on doing a couple of posts somewhere between last Thursday’s meatfest and today, but the last week’s been kind of crazy. Because I’m lazy and don’t feel like duplicating efforts, I have decided that my Christmas shall be documented in picture form. Easier on the eyes, and easier on my fingers.…
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Puppies and Meatfest
To those of you who have been clamoring for pictures to liven up the blog, consider your needs met. This post contains approximately 3 times more pictures than the rest of this entire blog put together. Last night I began the simultaneously sad and awesome process of retiring my grill. For my birthday I had…
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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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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…