I was driving home from Marble Falls tonight and my inner monologue cadence consisted of, “I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job. [...]

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Deck with rafters
I’ve slowly been progressing with the deck. Earlier this week Elise’s friends, Heather and Lindsey called and said they were going to road trip down from Des Moines to Austin for the week of the 4th.
That prompted me to get the deck done so our guests could enjoy hanging out in the [...]

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I bought Elise a HP DV1040 laptop for Christmas last year. It’s been a great computer (better, faster, cheaper than my iBook) and has been the only reason I haven’t ’switched’ Elise to Apple (well, she has her own reasons as well).
So the HP has a 60GB drive. I’ve kept her computer absolutely [...]

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Terri, Grant and Adam flew in from Poway on Thursday afternoon. Elise picked them up from the airport and brought them back to the house and then to the pool for a swim. I got home from work and we all went out for dinner at the Saltlick.
We came back to the house [...]

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Dear Hair,
Why don’t you return my letters or phone calls? I miss you. I love you. I want you back. We had such wonderful times together. How could you just leave me like that? We had beautiful children that I know you would love to see. They’re growing [...]

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I walked out onto the deck early this morning and stared blankly at nothing. I came to the conclusion that I’m depressed. I can attribute a lot of this to the flurry of activities over the past few weeks. My parents have been up to visit a lot. I’ve been [...]

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Last Wednesday I stopped at the HEB in Bee Caves for ingredients for the stuffed Anaheims that I had Elise make. I made a mad dash through the store because I needed to get home so I could have enough daylight to work on the deck.
I found a check out line with a short [...]

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Mom, Dad and Keith came up to Austin again this past weekend so we could go to Clay’s high school graduation party.
It was good that they were here again seeing how there was still work to be done on the deck and the extra helping hands are always welcome.
Dad Keith and I built the steps [...]

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My boss needed some form of backup redundancy for his pharmacy’s accounting data. Last month I drove over to his book keeper’s house in NE Austin. Her name is Polly and she’s a really sweet 80-year young lady who could easily beat my wife in a conversation competition. I installed a CD [...]

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Every night after work and every morning before work this week I’ve been working on the deck. The actual decking is done. Now I’m to build the steps from the first level to the lower level. Then I’m going to build the railings. I think it turned out nicely.

Since I’ve been [...]

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