A web design job got passed around among a couple friends and me. None of us really wanted the job because 1) the assumption was that there wasn’t a whole lot of money alloted for the job and 2) there’s not a lot of time for side projects.
I was hesitant about getting an iPhone [...]

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In case you weren’t aware. It’s been raining in Texas. A lot.

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“Why are you eating?”
“Potato chips”
“No, WHY are you eating?”
“…”
“Is it because you’re hungry or just because you’re snacking?”
“Because whoever decided to put wasabi and mustard on a potato chip is a culinary GOD.”

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The iMac has been out of commission for two months now. The only good thing about losing my job 10 months ago was that my boss let me keep the iMac that I bought for myself as my work computer.
The girls and I took the iMac to the Apple store this morning. The [...]

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Our trip to Oklahoma on Saturday started out on a bad foot. We loaded the Expedition with all of our luggage and all of the accessories that come with a 15-month-old child. If you’ve experienced owning or leasing a late model 15-month-old child, you know the accessories I’m talking about. We’re all [...]

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Dear Maly,

You turned 15-months-old this week. As always, as each month passes, you continue to learn and do more things that always leave your Mom and I to stand back and observe in awe.
Just last week while your Mom was running errands, I took you outside onto the deck in the backyard so you [...]

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Rob and I just got back from watching Transformers. Wow. Wow. And Wow. Wow and wow because the movie was really, really good. When we came out of the theatre, I was tempted to ask Rob if he wanted to play Megatron and I would play Optimus Prime and we [...]

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I’ve been really, really bad about writing in the past nine months. I have reasons but I don’t want those reasons to be seen as excuses.
I set up Janicek.com almost seven years ago as whatever I was thinking seven years ago. It became a personal journal and repository for photos that immediately became [...]

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This past weekend was spent getting the house in order for company. We hit the HoPot and picked up baseboards for the bathrooms that we recently had tiled and mulch for the landscaping extension we did in the garden. On Saturday we worked in the yard and on Sunday I measured and cut [...]

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