Circa 5 years ago, my parents gave me a handful of coupons (pronounced: kyew-pons) for free Sparklets water. I’m not talking about a small stack of coupons - a mondo bushel of coupons are what I’ve held onto for the past half decade. Anyway - they would have expired tomorrow. El realized this and went [...]

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Rain, rain, and more rain. It rained all weekend. I guess we really needed it, but it put a damper on my plans.
I just read something pretty interesting…. It’s kind of dated data, but interesting nonetheless. In 1994, the best value college education could be attained at the University of Texas at Austin. Second [...]

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Today took forever. The hard part about working where I do is that it seems like everyone takes off on Friday, or at least leaves early. So you’re sitting there the whole day daydreaming about leaving early. I thought about jetting, but then I said: “Nah, I probably wouldn’t do anything worthwhile at home anyway.” [...]

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Happy Birthday Mom!!!
Today is my Mom’s 35th birthday… Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Moooo-ooooom, Happy Birthday to you! I love you. Hope you had a wonderful day!
Elise and I just got back from our walk. Yeah - she’s mad at me for losing her folder. [...]

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Oh man, what a day! Elise is going to kill me when I tell her that I lost her folder that used to be on her computer. I could have sworn that I moved it over to my machine whenever I installed Linux. I was confident that I moved everything over. [...]

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I hate computers. I hate printers. I really hate my printer right now.
I was trying to print in “best” mode. Yeah right. Damnit. I’m pissed. I hate computers. I hate the internet. I hate websites. I hate email. I hate e-everything.
It’s raining and my cat is in my closet eating my shoelaces. The lights just [...]

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Elise and I just got back from an invigorating (Ha - never thought I’d use that word) walk. We’ve both been sitting on our duffs for long enough. Well, El’s been making frequent trips to the pool during the days. Makes me wish I had done the same thing when she was [...]

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“Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Make a fire-breathing, turf-rocket lawn mower that can trim grass at 60 mph … from a 1990 Ford Mustang convertible. Oh, and in only seven days. With no more than $3,000.”
Hell yeah!… Give me a quart of 10W-30 and a bendy straw - this is what I [...]

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Once again, another short weekend. After making that not-so-great panini, I installed Linux on Elise’s machine. I guess I’ll refrain from calling it Elise’s machine now because I’m sure she’ll never use it. I was hoping to partition the hard drive so we could have a dual boot system… one with Windows XP and the [...]

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Today was going fast until after lunch. I swear, I got to work, then had to turn around and grab lunch. I have no clue as to where my morning went [meetings]. I took an early lunch (noon… that’s early for me), came back and the rest of the afternoon took forever. I got some [...]

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