Elise’s brother, Eric flew in from Des Moines (after a stop in Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas) last Monday to spend Thanksgiving with us. Elise made beef stroganoff for dinner and Eric and I spent the better part of the evening putting MP3s on his new phone.
Elise went into the office on Tuesday morning [...]

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I decided to lay off one of my employees this morning. I came to my decision late yesterday and I thought about it all last night and this morning on the way into work. The task of letting someone go never seems to get easier. This morning’s meeting was especially hard because [...]

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Southwest seasoned mesquite smoked salmon filets with a tomatillo ancho butter topped with smoked mustard seeds and green peppercorns and french fried sweet potatoes.

Southwest fish & chips

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My brother-in-law flew in from Des Moines this past Monday to spend Thursday Thanksgiving with my family and then to drive up with us to Okeene, Oklahoma for the annual Boeckman Saturday Thanksgiving. Eric brought his new Samsung a950 wireless phone and wanted me to show him how to load it up with MP3s. [...]

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I’ve never been a big fan of my 50-mile-one-way commute to work. It’s worse as we are subject to Daylight Saving Time and the skies now begin darkening at 4:30 p.m. The darkness makes my commute home so much fun on the windy and fast four lane HWY 71, which has no [...]

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We just got word that our good friends, Doug and Marcia’s offer was accepted on a house a few blocks away. Doug is one of my closest friends from the good old days when we ran banquets at the country club. Doug left the club to go to law school in 1999. [...]

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Josh & Elise’s first photo - the college years

Josh: “You used to be so cute”
Elise: “You used to know the right things to say”

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I began using my new iMac at the office this past Monday. My desk is aesthetically pleasing now. My plan was to force myself to completely switch to using my Mac at work. I can’t. I’m verrrrrrrrrrrry slow on my new computer.
My desk is aesthetically pleasing now because I have [...]

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Joey Janisheck (pronounced just like it reads) was “fat finger typing”, trying to get to his own website and accidentally typed janicek.com. He read up on us and sent me an e-mail just to say hello and to note that he and his family also live in Austin.
I wrote back and said, “Great! [...]

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Elise and I are having a “discussion” on hypnobirthing. All I can say about this “discussion” thus far is that Dr. Grantley Dick-Read’s Birth Philosophy would be the coolest name for a band.

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