I can’t begin to tell you how much nicer the weather is here than it is in Bend. Well, let me rephrase that, because the weather in Bend was . It is so much COOLER here than it is on Bend. On Tuesday, our last day there, we went hiking at Smith [...]

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Man, today sure was a long day, even though I didn’t really DO anything. We turned out to get a little more screwed by the hotel we stayed at than we originally thought–the continental breakfast (of which I got one or two on the road with my Dad) ended at 9 AM. 9 [...]

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I apologize for not doing more updates, but my friend Heather has been in town and it’s been tough to find time to sit in front of my computer to write an update. She hates it when I do that, plus I think I’d be kind of rude to do that while someone from [...]

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I went out to lunch today with my Mom and my sister to a local McMenamin’s (they’re all over, you see), and I had an interesting beer. I started off with a pint of Hammerhead (same stuff I had on Sunday with my Dad), but then I saw that they have a whole lot [...]

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What the HELL is up with the first comment on my last entry? Where did that come from? I mean, I know I have a connection with Wisconsin, but I wasn’t aware that I had one with the Wisconsin Riveters, the tackle women’s football team. That one took me by surprise. [...]

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I gave myself (and everyone who reads this trip) a break last night by not doing an entry. There’s only so much you can say about doing nothing, no? Yesterday I just hung around at my Dad’s for awhile, watched TV, ran on the treadmill, that sort of thing. I did drive [...]

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I swear, my Dad’s computer is like a never-ending Pandora’s box. Every time he opens it up, something else evil goes wrong. He’s had some issues with it since he performed an upgrade of the motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and I’ve come over here multiple times to help him out, and every time [...]

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I didn’t really have any plans for the day, and since I knew I’d be at my Dad’s tonight, I didn’t schedule a time in which to exercise, so that left my afternoon pretty much wide open. Plus y’know, it was pretty hot out today, and I don’t like jogging in hot weather since [...]

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I haven’t been sleeping well in the last week or so, and last night something happened to me that hasn’t happened in a long time: I had a nightmare. I haven’t had one of those in literally years, and the last one that I had didn’t even scare me, but it had aspects that [...]

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Well today wasn’t totally wasted like yesterday, although I did play the same game again for a few hours. I actually reached a stopping point yesterday that I couldn’t get past–well, actually, the game was taken offline at 11 PM PST to update the online content and no one could play, but I was [...]

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I don’t mean to brag, but I just squandered an entire day. I wouldn’t call it wasted, but I certainly frittered it away doing almost nothing. Last night I started the download of a free trial of an online role-playing game that I really have no intention of buying and paying to play, [...]

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Apparently I can only get one kind of cell-phone service up at my Mom’s house here, and it doesn’t include the oft-mentioned “mMode” that AT&T hypes. I’m a member of AT&T Wireless’ so-called “mLife” program, but what’s the point if I can’t even acess the service? If I want to download any ringtones, [...]

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My cell phone rang around 8:30 this morning, but as I stumbled out of my room and into the computer room to answer it (I kept it in there last night instead of my room…don’t know why), I missed the call but saw who was calling. I decided to wait until I was fully [...]

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So I didn’t actually get around to working on my website today, but I thought about it a lot. Yesterday I got all but one month of my previous entries in the database, and I thought a bit about what else I could do. I was up late, though, and since my brain [...]

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Welcome to AGSHender.Net v5.0. I’ve been trying to implement a good content management system for quite some time now, but after lots of frustration and the prospect of having to spend money, I decided that the best thing to do would be to use someone else’s. This is the result of several day’s [...]

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