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Summer Plans
My parents visited this weekend and helped me install a new tile backsplash above the sink. I finished grouting it on Sunday night and it looks fantastic. I’m still waiting to get some stainless steel to complete the backsplash, which should make it look uber-modern. It’s been almost a year…
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Seattle Day 3
This morning we woke up to the more typical Seattle weather: cloudy, foggy, and dreary. Leah had a flight to catch at 1pm so we decided to head down to Pike’s market again so she could check it out. There were a lot more people this morning than yesterday and…
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Seattle Day 2
Friday morning Rex and I got up around 7am and went for a run. It was another gorgeous day in Seattle which was surprising. We ran up Lenora Street and down to the water edge. I got excited when we ran past the Moore Theater where Pearl Jam filmed the…
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Seattle Day 1
This morning (Thursday), I met my step-sister Leah at the Minneapolis airport and we flew out to Seattle for a vacation. My parents went out yesterday (Wednesday) since Rex has a trade show next week. We got in to Seattle around 11am after watching Layer Cake, which was pretty good,…
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Thanksgiving Nostalgia
This weekend I was digging through my file cabinet looking for something and I ran across this crumpled piece of paper I had saved. It was a list from Thanksgiving that Erin wrote our freshmen year of college on what we were grateful for. It had a few things on…
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Egg on my Face
I was running late this morning and had to be at work for an 8am meeting. So I grabbed some food that I could make in our work kitchen; one of those things being a hard boiled egg. So at lunch time I start trying to peel the egg over…
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Egg Salad Sandwiches
I had been getting bored with my usual cold cut or peanut butter jelly sandwiches at lunch so my Mom encouraged me to try making egg salad. It was incredibly gross to make – eggs and mayonnaise smashed up – but ends up tasting great. I feel like a new…
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64-bit NetBackup
Work has been crazy-busy since we are working on a project to port NetBackup from 32-bit to 64-bit so it can run better on x86-64 architecture with the new 64-bit version of Windows Server. Testing should be done next week so I will hopefully have more time to write blog…
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Win a Small Boy
This article is hilarious. Apparently a little boy crawled up and got inside one of those claw arcade toy machines.
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My Past Week in Review
Friday lunchtime is pretty quiet today at work. I’ve finished my soup and crackers so it’s time for a post. We’re officially back in winter up here in Minnesota and had two of worst storms of the year Sunday and Wednesday night. I was really surprised with the storm on…
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Brokeback Mountain Should Have Won Best Picture
Brokeback was one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. It had beautiful scenery, a great soundtrack, and the cinematography was incredible. But what I really loved was how great the story was, it was way better than anything else that got nominated. I am a straight middle-class…
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AOL Instant Messenger SDK
AOL released their first developer SDK for their AIM service which will hopefully allow some cooler stuff to happen including interoperability between other chat services. Which reminds me…if you haven’t used or heard of Trillian, it’s amazing. It lets you sign in to AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and any other…
