The past few days have been hectic. Thursday morning I learned that Tom died. On Friday Elise and I went to my parents’ house. Our mission was to work cows Saturday morning. We woke up to cold rain and had to give the cows a raincheck. We’ll have to go [...]

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Elise is funny and Demi is hot.

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A friend of mine died early this morning. I don’t want to think about it now. I was very inspired to think and write shortly after I cried on the way home from work, but not now.
I’m upset right now because I should have called him… A friend that I hadn’t seen in [...]

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I moved Janicek.com from Blogger to WordPress 1.x earlier this month because 1) I wanted my publishing software to be on my server versus Blogger’s server and 2) because I really liked the clean design of Michael Heilemann’s Kubrick template for WordPress.
Due to its popularity, Kubrick is now the default theme for WordPress 1.5. [...]

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I was offered a job at Scott & White two years ago today. I worked there for ten months. I was miserable nine of those ten months. Whew. BIG whew.

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I’m convinced that we (Elise, Riley, Annie and yours truly) live among at least one spiritual being. Last Spring I was moving things around in the attic and felt a strong presence. I was scared, not bone-chilling scared - but I knew something was with me.
Recently I was home alone. It was [...]

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I decided to cook an awesome chili on Saturday. Elise was working so I ran to Blockbuster to rent Saw. We stayed up late watch watching the movie and had to wake up early on Sunday to meet John & Christine at church. We met Pastor John and introduced ourselves as Jack’s [...]

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I’m in the process of cooking a venison chili. I took the recipe from Hudson’s and made it my own.
It goes something like this:

1.5 lb venison roast (I had a bitch of a time cleaning it) - 1/4″ cubed
1.5 yellow onions minced
8-10 cloves garlic minced
1/4 lb. bacon
8 tbl. San Antonio chili powder blend (Central [...]

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Cooking I love
Though a butcher I’m not
Removing silverskin from a venison roast
Is like playing the viola with a bow made of snot

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Today was a great day at work. I finally implemented the custom developed printer software that Systems of Merritt created for us. Lacee was happy because this software has cut her workload in half.
Since Kevin has been in St. Maarten, I’ve been hellbent on keeping operations flowing and getting backburner jobs off of [...]

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