I can tell it’s summertime because the creative juices are starting to flow again.  I’ve found myself very drawn to hobbies new and old this week… for no reason, I got out of the car to pump some gas for Tasha and came up with some cool ideas that might be useful for National Novel […]

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Today is a proud day!  I just got done pushing the button to send the last payment to ol’ Sallie Mae for my student loan, wiping out the last of my non-mortgage debt. Tasha and I started on this goal together in January 2006, and received some quick help from our friend Dave Hickman in […]

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Tonight Mom made spaghetti!  I ate myself stupid for the third day in a row.  The weather here in CO is beautiful today, which just deepened the pain of having to be in the office all day in clear view of mountains and blue skies. Tasha and my parents went to Red Rocks and then […]

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I had a nice long 11-hour day at the office today, meanwhile my parents and Tasha went to the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder and to the Butterfly Pavilion. They had a great time there, and then we all met up with Paul and Kara for dinner at The Waterloo.  Much fun was had by […]

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Today we’re taking my parents over to Bald Mountain trail in Boulder to do a light hike.  This evening, we will be visiting The Buckhorn Exchange for dinner since I told my Dad we’d go there if he ever came to Colorado.  They’ve got a lot of history there and its a really cool place. […]

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So last night I came home from work exhausted.  I canceled my plans for karate so I could get some much-needed sleep.  Tasha had already turned on the heated mattress pad for me and washed the sheets, so it was an optimal napping experience.  Imagine my surprise when Tasha woke me up just an hour […]

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Dear blog: It has been a long, hard week and now I’m going to get caught up on some sleep.  I gotta stop staying up so late and eating so poorly.  I may be online later tonight if I don’t sleep all the way through.  We shall see. That’s all for now, Me

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After yet another long night at work, I came home ready for some relaxation. At my birthday party, I got to talking with one of our QA guys, Wylie.  He is a rather accomplished acoustic guitar player and I found out that he also plays mandolin and banjo.  I told him I had a banjo […]

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Nothing like a 12-hour workday instead of a snow day!  We got 8″ of snow last night, it was really wet and heavy to shovel this morning.  Because we’ve got some important testing going on, I decided to head to the office around noon after the morning sun burned the snow off of the roads.  […]

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Well, they said we were supposed to get snow tonight.  They didn’t say it would start dumping around 2 pm and that we’d have 4 inches or more on the ground by 6 pm. Right now we’ve got 6.9″ based on the readout from a local intersection, and its coming down hard.  It’s so wet […]

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