Tonight I am heading to karate and then to The Waterloo for a burger, fries, and Meniskus concert.  I’m pretty wiped out after a long day at the office, so I’m going to catch a quick nap before my workout.  That’s all for now!

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The combination of getting up early for work, frigid cold, missing lunch, and a busy day at the office adds up to a tired night for me.  I don’t want to take a nap for fear of screwing up my sleep schedule even more, but I’m finding very little interesting on the Internet or TV […]

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Once again, snow descends on Colorado.  Today was an exceedingly busy day at the office, with a large amount of meetings peppered with short breaks to ensure that I didn’t get much done.  I was able to defy the odds and get several tasks completed today despite this limitation and much rejoicing was had by […]

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This week I was alerted to this very funny cartoon that outlines Ten Things You Need To Stop Tweeting About.  At some time or another, I have violated this list but to me there is much less stringent set of approved social norms on Twitter than other social media.  This got me to thinking about […]

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Today marks the official end of my winter break, it’s back to work in the morning!  This should kick off a flurry of work that is likely to last for quite awhile, but I’m rested and prepared to make some magic happen.  The good news: as of January 1st, I’ve got my three weeks of […]

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Just to follow up on my previous posting, our furnace continued to act up after I deemed it a false alarm a few days ago.  We had the furnace repairman come out, who found a bad flame sensor and we asked him to upgrade our thermostat to a more reliable touchscreen model.  We also signed […]

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Several of you have asked about the Man Cave project, part of my 2010 goals. The motivations for this project are two-fold: first, I enjoyed having a basement space in our old house and second, I wanted to have a place where I can play my guitar on the amp and not bother Tasha.  A […]

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After some reflection, I have elected to strip my goals down to just a few this year.  I had too many irons in the fire last year and it led to a lot of partial successes and failures, so this year I’m going to keep the goals lean and mean. Debt Freedom At long last, […]

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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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