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Good With the Bad

August 13th, 2003 Leave a Comment

Things that are bad:

Being super-crazy-busy at work.
One fiasco after another at work.
One fiasco after another at my wife’s workplace.
Having to pay sales tax on haircuts.
Having to pay sales tax on my DirecTV bill.
Having to pay sales tax on all kinds of asinine things. Hey, UP YOURS, GOVERNOR TAFT! Way to stimulate Ohio’s economy [...]

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As Promised

June 22nd, 2003 2 Comments

As promised, I have new pictures of the garden destruction/improvements.
Removal of the nasty dying bushes

Bushes are GONE!

Natty-looking azaleas have been moved, and we’ve got another flat of marigolds planted! Yay, marigolds!

The front garden area, cleaned up some more

Scraggly bushes by the front door have been replaced with red and white impatiens (which kind of [...]

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IOU

June 18th, 2003 1 Comment

I keep forgetting to upload pictures of Liz and her adventures in the Front Garden of Doom. I’ll see if I can get to that tomorrow evening after work. The devastation is really quite a sight to behold.
I’m making good progress on my goofy RSS parser and related utilities, so much so that [...]

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Rumors of Alvin’s Death Greatly Exaggerated

June 10th, 2003 1 Comment

Something tells me it might be easier to dispose of a dead chipmunk if, in fact, the chipmunk in question is actually dead.
I threw on a shirt and some shorts, grabbed a pair of good gardening gloves, and headed out back to see about pitching our fuzzy little corpse into the compost pile in the [...]

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Things That Make Me Happy

May 24th, 2003 1 Comment

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything here, and I figure it might be nice to just talk about some of the good things that have happened lately instead of carping about the state of the world, my misadventures with strep throat, and so forth. So, without further ado, here are some recent things [...]

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