For the last few months, I’ve occasionally heard a song on KNRK that I really liked, and I don’t know the number of the studio to call and get the name while I’m driving, and I always seem to forget by the time I get back home where I could have looked it up on [...]

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I don’t know why I’m counting down Hanne’s finals–they’re not even mine.  I guess I feel somewhat relieved to do so since she’s been studying morning, noon, and night for what feels like the last two weeks, and at some point I’d love to get my girlfriend back.  Call me selfish, if you will, and [...]

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Sitting on my front porch, listening to music, drinking a beer, enjoying the weather.  I love springtime.  I also like having a laptop that lets me stay online while I sit on my front porch, drink beer, and enjoy the weather, but that’s secondary.  But nice.
Went for a run today in the good weather.  Absolutely [...]

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OK, I have spent way too much money building a replacement for my TiVo unit, but I think in the end, it’ll be worth it. I’ll have to add up everything that I purchased for it, but I’m pretty sure that when all is said and done it’ll take the equivalent of about 6 [...]

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I’m having sleep problems again. Monday morning I woke up to the sound of my alarm through the fog of morning insomnia, and I felt like it never really passed throughout the whole day. I don’t remember waking up in the middle of the night, or tossing and turning, but all I know [...]

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When you have certain habits on specific days of the week, it does both good and bad things for you. Good: you don’t necessarily sit around wondering what to do. Bad: the opportunity to be spontaneous fades a bit. Good: days pass more quickly. Bad: days pass more quickly. I’ve [...]

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This time of year I seem to write less and less, and in fact, going back and looking at my archives to remember what year I got a particular gift for Christmas is usually a waste of time since I don’t write until days or even weeks after the holidays, and I subsequently neglect to [...]

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Ah, Halloween. I’m too old to trick or treat, getting to old to just go out and drink (plus I had an after-work get-together last night with a bunch of coworkers where we did just that, anyway), and yet still too young to do nothing and just hand out candy all night. I [...]

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The air is changing. I can feel it every time I step outside. It’s not the coolness around me, it’s not the wet pavement. It’s something else. Is it just because it’s fall? Perhaps. This time of year is always very strange for me, as much as I love [...]

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Why is Monday the only cloudy day of the week? It was hot and beautiful all weekend, and then Monday morning–bam–cloudy and cool. I actually slept under my comforter last night it got so cold. Naturally, it’s supposed to hit 96 degress by Wednesday, but leave it to grey, dreary Monday to [...]

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I’ve had to make some hard decisions recently, hence an absence of writings. I’ve had a few things that have constantly seemed like they were nagging at me, and as such I’ve felt that a part of me was, well, for lack of a better word, missing. I think I may have solved [...]

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I had a grand old plan last week to post every day using the name of the day in the post title (Super Monday, Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, etc.), but Thursday night as I was lying in bed drifting off to sleep I realized I’d screwed up and not posted that day. Probably for [...]

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Last night’s Mardi Gras party was a lot of fun. It mostly consisted of most of us standing around in the kitchen and talking and laughing. Erika and her roommate had gotten a fair amount of snack-type food, so there was plenty to bunch on, but so that I wasn’t eating snack food [...]

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Today I test the limits of my iPod’s battery. I plan on finding out just how long I can listen to it in a row as I work today, and with my boss out of the office I don’t have to be careful about being seen with it. It’s not that I’m breaking [...]

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Last weekend primarily dealt with my struggle of good vs. evil. That is, I was working on my computer. The blasted thing just won’t work properly, and I really have no idea what’s causing it. I got into a stress test for the game World of Warcraft, and so I tried playing [...]

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