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Entries from March 2007

What to make when you have leftover bacon and German influences

March 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · food

There was a whole package of uncooked bacon left over from the other night when we made bacon-cheeseburgers for dinner. I really wanted to get it cooked up since we have a habit of forgetting about stuff like that and finding it 4 months later as an unidentifiable blob of viscous goo, so we [...]

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8 Things Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happily

March 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · geekdom, life, whatever, work

I think this pretty much describes how I like my work days to go to a “T”.

Let them work when they want
Geeks work almost every moment they are awake. They are online before they go to the office. They are home working after the office closes. They work weekends. They are even sometimes working in [...]

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Resolutions Reboot: 0 for 2 - Let’s try that again…

March 12th, 2007 · No Comments · life, whatever

Back in January I wrote about our resolutions for the new year, so I thought I’d give a little update about how we’re doing…
Get back to the gym!
We started off with good intentions going to the gym the day after making the resolution. Unfortunately, that was the only time we went, until today. We’re shooting [...]

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Confessions of a vinyl junkie

March 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments · life, music, nightlife

I’m a recovering vinyl junkie. The majority of the credit card balance I carry to this day is a several thousand dollar investment in records I made at the height of my electronic music djing days. Any of you who have been downstairs know I have records crammed everywhere into my basement office: stacked against [...]

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The groundhog was wrong, I want a refund

March 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · How To Annoy Me, whatever

Dear winter,
Once again you cant make up your mind; 3″ of snow last night, and now they are calling for 45-50F by the weekend.
I can’t take the on-again-off-again-general-hospital relationship. It’s over. Deal with it.

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IKEA Trip Part 2: Holy crap thats a big wardrobe!

March 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · life, owning a home

Holy crap thats a big wardrobe! Thank you Ikea for the new clean space in the basement.
It took me 4 hours last night to assemble this monster, and a couple hours tonight to rearrange stuff in the basement to get this beast to its new home.
What do you think??
Before

After

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IKEA Trip Part 1: We finally finish off our “reading room”

March 5th, 2007 · No Comments · life, owning a home

Sunday I was feeling like I needed to accomplish something constructive around the house, so I convinced Christa we should goto Ikea. Really it was the mere mention of Ikea and she said yes, but in my mind I was the one who did the convincing…
We had a few items picked out [...]

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The Registry has been updated!

March 4th, 2007 · No Comments · wedding

In case you have been sitting on the edge of your computer chair, just dying to know where we will register, I have finally completed the task! Please visit the Wedding Info link and review the Registry page.

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Dear Internets: A call for comments

March 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · internet, whatever

I know there are people out there that read our posts regularly. I’ve tried to tell people about something only to find so and so already knew about such and such by reading the this or that here and there, you follow?
So anyway, we know you’re reading us. Prove it and leave some comments.
There’s [...]

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