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I’m not the most prolific blogger, as you’ve surely noticed. Nor am I often, if ever, inclined to write about politics when I do blog. Mostly, I rant about things like, should “blog” really be both a noun and a verb?

But this morning, as I sit at my desk attempting to get into ( Read more... )

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Hey, remember this?

It was just a few short months ago that our Toyota minivan failed on us in Memphis, and we replaced it with a quickly and cheaply obtained Ford minivan.

Well, driving hoopty-vans is nothing a little drive up over the mountains won’t cure… said Ford didn’t ( Read more... )

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I’ve long been smitten with the songwriting of a guy by the name of Bill Mallonee. It started back when he was fronting his band Vigilantes of Love. As he moved on into his solo career, I got a few chances to hear him play in person, and always walked away both inspired and ( Read more... )

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Ah, Total Beverage, the truth is I really do love you. You’re a liquor supermarket - a store larger than most grocery stores, selling all manner of wine, beer, and the hard stuff. You have a wine selection so huge, I really don’t know what to do other than pick something at ( Read more... )

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How funny is it that one of the best family pictures we’ve taken recently (ie, everyone smiling, looking at the camera, no drama) was taken at an autograph signing with Matt Duchene (center for the Colorado Avalanche). He fits well into our family. Now he just needs to start ( Read more... )

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Perhaps those more seasoned than I in the ways of javascript already know this - but I just spent 2 hours trying to fix a javascript problem that ended up having a very easy solution. My google searches came up fruitless - partially because I was ( Read more... )

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I don’t normally rant against products and services in my blog. I’m just not that kind of guy.

This one bears a bit of a rant though. Now, I know that even though people in our country are rabid consumers of television programming, it’s a given that most people really dislike ( Read more... )

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With apologies to Spinal Tap, of course.

I don’t always do a year in review post. But as I sit soaking in the sounds of college football, I found myself thinking about 2010. On the outset, I started with a Year in Review that looked back on the epic nature of 2009 for our ( Read more... )

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I spent most of the last few days trying hard to soak in the sun, at least when I could afford to get out of the office. It’s been a sprint to get some things wrapped before we leave tomorrow morning. Not entirely successful, the late nights and long hours resulted in getting ( Read more... )

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This post is from the archives of my deleted database… Last year, I got into some interesting conversations about the whole Black Friday/commercialism issue, and I wrote this article. I just got an onslaught of Black Friday advertisements in the email this morning (Black ( Read more... )