Below is the write up that I did at the beginning of January regarding my 2009 goals.  For each item, you will find results (both good and bad): Debt Repayment and Tracking Attack Remaining Debts -This year we’re going to continue making strides against our three remaining student loans.  At a minimum, I expect to […]

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The furnace just needed reset, the repair guy talked us through it on the phone at no charge.  The house is slowly warming up again and we’re good to go!

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The furnace is acting up.  Tasha noticed that the auto-igniter was not lighting the pilot, I followed the instructions to kill the power and turn off the gas valve but we still smelled gas so someone is on the way out to look at it.  I guess this counts as something to spend the emergency […]

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Last Saturday, Illinois was still receiving quite a bit of snow.  I had called the Hollis Park Rec Center to see if anyone from karate had arrived to train and they informed me that nobody had shown yet.  This was shortly after class usually starts around 8 am.  Satisfied that the weather was going to […]

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Tasha and I made it back to Colorado around 5:30 Mountain Time tonight.  The house is all in one piece and the three of us are happy to be home, especially Teddy!

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We’re still on the road back to Colorado!  With any luck, we stayed in Kansas last night and will be heading up the trail to Colorado today.  I’ll make a “home safe” post when we actually arrive home safely. Back to the regularly scheduled programming tomorrow!

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Tasha and I are headed back on the road to Colorado today.  Depending on her skill/luck packing the car, we might have to stop off and ship some of our larger presents home with us. We’re taking a different route home, since the I-80 corridor has been hit full-force by winter weather we’ll be taking […]

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Tasha and I ventured out to the always-fun Goofy Ridge for her family’s Christmas celebration.  The roads were not too pleasant on the drive out, which does not bode well for our trip back to Colorado over the next few days.  We’ve had a lot of fun being home for the holidays, but we’re also […]

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The Christmas festivities have come and gone, it was another great year of food and family fun!  Tasha surprised me with a record player so I can start availing myself of Black & Read’s vinyl store, and she and my parents got me a stack of songbooks so I can learn to play some new […]

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My wife, in true 5 yr old fashion, woke me up early today so the rest of my family would not be inconvenienced in their normal getting-ready rituals.  Our family Christmas bonanza starts at 9:30 am, so now we are just sitting around waiting for the rest of the crew to get cleaned up and […]

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