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Balloons off Broadway 2008 pictures up.
Yesterday I went to Balloons off Broadway 2008 and took loads of photos. Some of them are uploaded to my Balloons off Broadway Flickr set This was the first time I had been out shooting and filled up my (2gb) memory card. There were several factors to blame. The first was that I still had…
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An awful Dyson
I purchased a Dyson DC18 last week on Woot and it has turned out to be the worst vacuum cleaner we’ve had (and the shortest lifetime). It didn’t even make it around one lap of the house before I had had enough and contacted woot for a returns number. I’m not going to scare you…
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New car (to us)
I forgot to post in the blog (Kristen beat me to it) that we have a new car – bHelsbyBug. This name came about after a guy at Siemens used to call me beHelsbyBub – something I thought rather amusing, and therefore the car is now known as this too. Pictures of bHelsbyBug are uploaded…
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Goodbyes 🙁
Saturday was sad as we had to say goodbye to the Velez’s who were going back to Oregon. We caught up with them for breakfast in Panera. Kristen gave Josiah a toy cellphone – almost identical to Tracey’s, which was a big hit. Hopefully the noises it makes doesn’t drive them batty on the long…
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Jonathan Coulton concert with Paul and Storm
Kristen had a brainwave a while back to go see Jonathan Coulton in concert in Cincinatti – I took Thursday afternoon off from work and we drove the long boring drive to Cincinatti. The cool thing was that Kristen had volunteered our services to work on the merchandise table before and after the show so…
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Cut your grass or go to jail?
Apparently in Canton OH you can get a $250 fine for not cutting your grass and in really bad cases you could end up in jail for a month – which begs the question – whats going to happen to the grass whilst you are in jail? Doesn’t a jail sentence defeat the object? In…
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My final (for now) Microsoft exam passed!
I took my final (of 7) Microsoft exam this afternoon. It’s a lot different and a lot harder than the other tests due to the amount of information that you need to digest and analyze (and in some cases assume). The good news is that I have now obtained the next level in Microsoft accreditations…
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How do they know?
Sure enough, on Saturday I was working on 3 client projects trying to finish up various activities. The only difference in this picture was that I was working just before 8am. The full cartoon for this day can be found www.comics.com//comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20080503…
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3 years.
Today we’re celebrating the 3rd year anniversary of moving to the USA. The past three years have flown by and so many things have changed since we’ve been here. I’m not sure that celebrating is the correct word to use, but we’re marking the occasion. We plan to go to a really nice chinese restaurant…
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