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I failed to do a lot of things I'd intended to last year. I never made it back to the dojo. But I've washed my gi! So now it's clean and I don't have any other excuse besides "I'm tired, meh!"

I have declared that 2017 is the Year People Will Put Things Away. The children ( Read more... )

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Holy shit!

There's been sickness and food and food and family and holy crap the amount of fondue has been ridiculous by SO TASTY. Also bread pudding with homemade bread you DONT EVEN KNOW.

Anyway. The holidays are officially over, and 2016 has started. I figured I should ( Read more... )

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So I've got all the material for my brown belt test (seen it anyway, remembering it all is an issue). Except for that part where I have to do 40 pushups and... yeah, ow. So, I grabbed the Hundred pushups app that a couple of friends recommended, and I started working on ( Read more... )

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It's been a busy couple of weeks since I was hired full time at Acquia. Upon signing my offer letter, I was told to book a flight to Boston for Build Week. If you aren't familiar with the idea - all of our engineering department got together on-site and Built Things. For ( Read more... )

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Two weeks ago, I was formally Acquiasitioned, and I'm now a full time employee, with REAL BENEFITS AND STUFF.

This is a major win. Because paying for your own benefits bites ass. Also, 401k and stuff.

I've actually been contracting for Acquia since last May, but it took ( Read more... )

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It hasn't been a *bad* couple of weeks here, but it hasn't been the best either. Everyone except Earl came down with a cold (in succession, including both people who nanny for us). It's not the worst cold I've ever had, but it was enough to make one feel like a ball of ( Read more... )

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And here I swore to myself I was going to try to post, I dunno. Once a week maybe? At least?

Fails!

So, here's the rundown.

I lost my housekeys (off my keyring. I had the rest of the ring, so.. wtf?) I got them back two weeks later when the mom of one of the kids in C's ( Read more... )

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C had a birthday. R is growing, though we'd like him to grow a bit faster. And maybe heavier :) I'm working. I've learned a lot of new things. I've also had a few issues just trying to keep myself in gear. Could be better, could be worse.

C and I started taking a kung fu ( Read more... )

I may, just possibly, be in the actual recovery from this cold. It's been 8 days now? Blegh. I think I have used up most of my motivations in cleaning up the family room a touch, and putting most of the laundry away. What remains is primarily Sprout's, all of which needs to be gone through again to separate out things that are definitely too small ( Read more... )

Failed to write all weekend. Did about 600 words friday.

Yesterday, cleaned the horrible disaster kitchen from Friday - including the 'ocrap, why is the disposal not working wtf why is there a cord in the disposal EW ACK' (or maybe that was the day before), then went to strider13's new abode where painting took place and hanging of blinds and keeping the ( Read more... )