[08:34] < @chiqy> matt, i am extremely disappointed in your blog of late. I know — bad blogger bad blogger!!! As Linda so graciously pointed out it has been a whole week since an update, so let me get you up to speed… Thanks to Justin for taking Phil, myself and Christa to game 1 [...]

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My sister has a sick and twisted sense of humor. I received in the mail today an Easter photo of me, from 1981. The bunny in this photo looks like a scary 80s alien. My 4 year old nephew Dylan included an Easter card for me.

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I never thought of myself as the must-have-a-nice-yard type, but this blast of winter after the 2 weeks of warm weather is devastating the flowers that came up already in the flowerbeds out front of the house… Have a great Easter!

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Michigan Weather 101: Wait a day and things will be different. Over the past 2 weeks Winter changed into Spring, Spring changed into Summer, and both Spring and Summer got thrown out and Winter came back with a vengeance. It was 82F last week at this time, and its 32F this week. It wouldn’t be [...]

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Welcome to April. I’ve got nothing today, so here’s a picture of Monty upset I’m more interested in taking a picture of him than throwing his damn frisbee…

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Just a quick note that I spruced up the blog header from “Winter in Detroit” mode, to “Spring in Ferndale” mode. The photos are some I grabbed off the internets of the 9 Mile & Woodward area of downtown Ferndale. Of note you will see in rotation the Woodward Avenue Brewers (one of our favourite [...]

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According to a story over at extremetech.com, a new book is out that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity. People who are really, really neat, between what it takes to be really neat at the office and at home, typically will spend anywhere from an hour to four hours a [...]

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While researching something at work this afternoon with the Google, I happened to pull of a list of my recent searches and was quite amused. The technical searches aren’t that odd to me, but “bg’s reunite”, “haters”, all the food searches, and “vermont ‘red state’” look funny to me in that list. Oh and trogdor. [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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