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Well all good things come to an end and so has my vacation. I took Friday off and cut the grass. Dad should show up sometime tomorrow for some parental visitation goodness. In the mean time I shall regale you with tails of my vacation. After all the excitement of losing (then finding) my wallet [...]

So, whats the most exciting point of the vacation so far? The flight? The midnight drive to my friends house? Taco Bell? No it happened just as we were about to play mini-golf! Yesterday, we decided to see the matinee showing of ‘Inception’ at the local Imax. We swug by early to get the tickets [...]

Whoo! The missus and I are off, for two glorious weeks, to Boston. We’ll be visiting one of my oldest and bestest friends. Beer! Food! Alcohol! Food! BEER! and we’ll play all sorts of geeky, nerdy games, cuz that’s how we roll up there. I do expect to check the blog, my email and such [...]

Cut the yard: Check. Edge the yard: Check. Use new blower to ‘sweep’ the resulting debris off the sidewalk and carport: Check. Repair bathtub Formica that has come unstuck from front of tub: Check. Time to have fun: Check. I bought the complete set of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series for Nikki’s birthday. This has [...]

Opinions wanted: What is the best cell phone out there? What is the best cell phone provider out there? Why? Reason: I’m needing to get Nikki and my phones on the same plan. I’m AT&T paying around $85 per month for an old Motorola flip phone while Nikki is using a phone so old I [...]

Been trying to get Nikki on my health insurance which I get through work. I THINK we’ve managed to jump through all the proper hoops but I really won’t know until the bills start showing up. The first test will be prescription drugs. We both have pills prescribed to us and I guess once we [...]

Well it’s official. I suck at NCAA Men’s basketball brackets. Villanova and Kansas were my final two. I’m almost afraid to look at the bracket and see how bad I’m about to be beat. PS: I take solace in that married life is working out great for me.   And I’m not just saying that [...]

Just got off the phone with a friend of mine. This is his story. He travels a LOT and wines and dines customers as part of his job. His company reimburses him, of course, but it’s nothing for a thousand dollars to be ‘off’ when he does his bills. He had an unusually busy two [...]

Had one of ‘those’ days today. Been working in a Microsoft Access database for work. I’m having to write some VBA scripts to import some data into the Access database so it can then produce some XML for me. Anyway, I was ALMOST done today around 2 when my latest test of the script caused [...]

OK, not really the blues, that was just alliteration; more  a ‘problem’ with my birthday. You see, I haven’t really cared to get anything on my birthday for over a decade or more now. Living alone and single for longer than I care to admit, this hasn’t been much of a problem. Using it as [...]