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Monthly Archives: March 2004

Van Gogh me! Please, for the love of God!

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Jessica “Chicken-of-the-Sea” Simpson has done a remake of “Take My Breath Away“.
There are lines you are just not meant to cross. Here’s an example. This remake is most certainly another example. Especially since she doesn’t have the voice to pull off the key change at the end. At all.
I may need [...]

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We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.

Friday, March 19, 2004

One of the nice things about moving into the house is that I have a chance to design and build exactly the home network that I want. I took the excuse opportunity to upgrade to an 802.11g router, and I expect to have a wireless bridge to connect to the computers that will eventually [...]

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The Day After

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

The house closing went very smoothly. Took about an hour and a half to sign the papers and another hour and a half to verify my employment (company hotline was down and *everybody* I could think of was out of the ofice), but we now have a house. Well, technically, the bank has [...]

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From serf to feudal lord…

Monday, March 15, 2004

T minus 2 hours 38 minutes…
Wow. WOW. We close on the house today. I didn’t get all giddy about it until I was driving to work today (I’m a slug in the mornings), but now it’s hard to focus on the work that I have to get done. We did a [...]

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Alive in Austin

Sunday, March 14, 2004

Yes, I’m still alive. Christine and I have been incredibly busy preparing to close on our house soon, and getting ready for her to move in. Meanwhile, work has become steadily busy – I’ve come full circle around back to the same systems I was working when I started with the company.
Tonight, however, [...]

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