This weekend is our warmup to GenCon, we had a long (10 am to 9 pm) jag at our local gaming shop and more tomorrow!  I got to try out my Living Forgotten Realms character before he gets to go to the big dance at the convention, and we got a chance to play in […]

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This has been a constantly annoying and frustrating series of weeks at work.  Things never went quite right, and for some reason I have been internalizing the blame for the problems.  Technically, as one of my coworkers pointed out to me, it is the whole user story team that succeeds or fails when these things […]

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It’s annual review time again, so I’m busy getting my write-up put together.  Tasha and I had a very lazy evening tonight, opting to take a nap after work and then we hit up Chick-fil-A so I had enough energy to endure writing a boring document all night.  Sadly, I’m not much more exciting than […]

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This week has been going by at a furious pace.  Excessively annoying bugs, conflicting priorities, and some administrative stuff that must be done before I go to GenCon adds up to a lot of work related frustration for me.  The good news is that vacation is coming up, followed immediately by a trip back to […]

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Tonight was a hot one. They are doing construction on the studio where we train, so the air conditioner was off. One of our dojomates is testing for Shodan this weekend, so tonight was a workout focused on his test preparation. He is 15, getting ready for his first Shodan exam so it was fun […]

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Tonight we returned to the gym, where I ran a relatively slow mile (10:17) and then lifted some weights.  We only did a few machines, it was pretty full up there so PW and I went downstairs and played a little basketball.  It was nice to work out again, and I’m eager for the dojo […]

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Today I woke up late (ahh, sleeping in… is there nothing better?), and shortly thereafter I found myself once again in the garage.  Today I moved even more empty tubs and boxes into the basement, which included our camping gear and some rabbit litter that had been sitting in the garage for a month.  I […]

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On the way home from chiropractic today, Tasha spied a garage sale sign (one of many in our area).  It was on the way home so we stopped in, happily finding our friends Paul and Jenny there looking at the same sale!  They were selling a table saw with stand, so I verified that it […]

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Tonight is another jam night at Walton Manor. I’m about to head over there to rock out and have some pizza. I’m going to take my Les Paul with me, still not sure about taking my Blues Junior amp. Meanwhile, Tasha will be out having a girls night. I’m sure they will be up no […]

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It turns out that I owe the people over at Dragon Dictation an apology. It turns out their software was not at fault after all. Instead, my wireless router configuration was to blame. After changing my wireless channel to a different one (a tip I found on Apple’s forums) the iPad connectivity issues all went […]

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