Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
...I am totally ready for summer to be over. Let's get on with the fall already.
Let's get on with all the pretty changing of the leafs; all the brisk days and sweatshirts and long pants; all the coziness that develops as the temperature slows down and people slow down.
Let's be ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Last night's dream recollection was awfully brief, but vivid at the same time. It was solely composed of me pulling a huge (size of my fist) wad of hair out of the bathtub drain, looking at it in a bit of shock, and tossing it in the garbage.
Pretty sure it ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
So in following up last night's post, I've been riding on a mildly high on life kick lately. With the move finally being finished from the past month, it has finally given me a chance to settle down and observe things with a little more clarity around me. Lab work ...
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
I didn't even realize "transitionalism" was really a term for something until I slapped it into Google. Well, it's kind of fitting!
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
I am still alive and kicking. Well swimming. Keeping my head above the water, so to speak.
I'm looking for a new apartment. Something to cut down the cost. I investigated an option for a roommate this evening. Seemed nice enough, the apartment is nice, the landlord seemed very welcoming, and ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
After a couple weeks of eating like crap1, I feel an urge to purge the ick from my system. I spent nearly two weeks finishing off a batch of homemade mac'n'cheese (made something like 3-4 quarts worth in the end), beef and mushroom stroganoff, a tray of brownies2, and I ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
During my undergraduate days, I used to entertain a slew of side projects in my head that I wanted to attempt and/or accomplish had I ever found the time. Among that list was making a homemade railgun1, attempting to smith a sword/axe/sharp weapon and/or some plate armor2, and all kinds ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
It has been a slow couple of weeks. Since my parents sprung for a new computer case as a sort of birthday gift, I have been working on getting a network-attached storage (NAS) box up and running using the extra hard drives that don't presently have a home. It is ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Concerts, photographers, and OpenSolaris, oh my! Please do come inside. If not for the interesting tidbits about the BPO (which I will finish at a later hour), at least stop in for my latest techie project with some gushing on the side about some local photographers!
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
10 years ago, I was back in my hometown, Minot, ND, for my first Christmas break away from college.
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