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I sent a message to my main contact for school in New York about a few topics. At the end of the message I asked if he had any final suggestions.
And this is what I got, “Less then two-weeks to go? Nothing at this point is going to dramatically change the […]

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My mother-in-law dropped off this “calming vibrations” baby chair in anticipation of our eventual new arrival, but Julia seems to have already staked her own claim to it.
(And there are more cute cat photos if you need them.)
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Oh, and my computer is still alive–turns […]

Three cheers for my amazing wife, who this morning kicked my ass, made me go work out, and called Apple while I was taking out my frustration on the elliptical machine. She is a saint for putting up with me when I’m being a whiny little bitch (fairly infrequent these days, but still happens […]

This evening, my MacPro decided that “restart” was an important and necessary part of “wake from sleep.” It starts to wake normally, but hiccups and suddenly it’s booting again. I’ve done just about everything I can do to it over the past three hours, including a complete restore from the install media, and […]

I can’t believe it’s May 21st! I can’t believe Memorial Day is a week away! Where did this spring go?
I have 3 weeks till my scary, big, monstrous exam. Studing is going along, but I need to shift into very high gear starting this week, actually today. So anyone plans on […]

The office sprung for a bunch of us to attend Jonathan Lewis’s “Writing Optimal SQL” seminar, put on by the nice folks at NEOOUG (that’d be the Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group, for those playing acronym bingo at home), so I had a nice and brain-meltingly interesting Friday away from the office. Lewis really […]

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I thoroughly expect that the cats will murder us in our sleep for this, but we couldn’t resist having Julia model one of the baby hats that Liz’s mom knitted.
Yes, I think it’s safe to say that someone is definitely plotting some revenge…

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We set off Monday morning to drive through the Cascades on the outbound leg of our epic wine country road trip, with wolffire along as native guide. We stopped in Yakima for lunch (yes, Dad, I took pictures of the train) and arrived in Walla Walla […]

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I’ve started to upload photos of our trip to Washington. This first round (from here to here) is from Sunday, April 29: our tour and tasting at Chateau Ste. Michelle, a spiffy-looking peacock showing off, some just-before-sunset shots of the Seattle skyline, and dinner at […]

I spent most of the day doing the first big pass through the photos from our trip to Washington, doing some color correction and putting a rating onto everything. The next step will be culling through the good stuff–of which there is a surprising amount!–to find the things worth uploading to share. I […]