The 10k Pints to Pasta race came and went, and I did better than I thought I would, but not nearly as good as two years ago when I last ran.  I wouldn’t say I’m out of shape, just not in as good of shape.  Carrying extra weight and running yes doesn’t help, but I [...]

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Last weekend was, in the common vernacular, “a hell of a weekend.”  Let me explain.
Fridays are always fun in general, but Fridays where dinner and drinks are paid for are even better.  After work, I met Hanne and her family over at the Bridgeport Brewpub and Brewery, which I haven’t been to in at least [...]

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Cripes.  Has it really been a month since I last posted a “real” blog entry?  My Twitters show just a slice of what I’m doing at the moment, but I’ve just been too lazy to sit down and write a real entry, I guess.  I haven’t been this lazy about writing since I was in [...]

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Today I moved up into the big leagues of brewing, or at least, I purchased the equipment I need to move up into the big leagues of brewing.  After dropping what felt like a metric assload of money to get said equipment (most of which I’ll earn back from the sale of various things I [...]

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I had a great weekend last week, this time it was largely productive, which was a good thing, in my case.  I got a lot accomplished at work on Friday, and so I asked to get out of there a bit early, and with that extra time I took my car to a place to [...]

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While Hanne was busy all weekend with homework, I spent my weekend primarily dealing with brewing and brewing-related activities.  The first two batches of 2008 went off (largely) without a hitch, and both are happily fermenting away in the relative darkness of the entryway to the apartment.
I say “largely” without a hitch only because I [...]

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For some reason, I’ve found that when I have a bad day at work, the Lucky Lab Brewpub on Hawthorne is where I go.  I’m not sure if it’s because it’s convenient or because I always have bad days on Mondays when they have cheap pints.  Either way, I found myself at the Lucky Lab [...]

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AT&T is killing me today.  First they drop all data connections for two of my users’ BlackBerry handhelds, then they start bouncing back our emails sent to their various domains claiming my firm is spamming.  Bah!  Clearly they’re in error, but it’s going to take them a day or two to get it sorted out.
St. [...]

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Hanne and I did end up going climbing today, though she was feeling so unmotivated and lazy we almost didn’t.  I’m glad we did, though, as I managed to reach the top of another route (technically, an easier route than the other two I topped yesterday) and Hanne came every close to beating her White [...]

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Climbing is something that I always liked to do, though I haven’t done it in about 15 years.  I used to climb trees as a kid to the point where I even had paths up different trees.  When I was in middle school, I used to climb on a climbing wall they had there once [...]

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My scale of pretentiousness, that is.  I’m now the proud owner of a brand new 16 GB iPhone, so when I pull it out people will immediately know that I’m a hipster doofus and a consumer whore.  Bonus points if I pull out my MacBook at the same time.
But damn, it sure is purty.  I’ve [...]

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I’ve come very close to buying an iPhone lately.  The idea of having not only a new phone that has full Internet connectivity (and if you’ve tried browsing the web on a “regular” cell phone, you know what “full” means) is very appealing, but with easy access to my email and calendar it pretty much [...]

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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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I had an interesting conversation with my boss today in which I admitted that when it’s as slow as it was today at work, I can never tell if people are happy or they’ve just lost confidence in us.  You know, sort of like when you don’t get any emails for awhile, you start wondering [...]

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I need more four day weekends.  I don’t think I have to explain myself beyond that.  It’s not that I don’t like my job, I just like time away from it for extended periods of time when I can laze around and pretty much do whatever I want.  I like having multiple day stretches in [...]

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