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Old College Pictures

We had a pretty big tag sale last weekend. And as tag sales go, this one was pretty successful. I define success as “No crap went back into my house”. Most of it sold, some of it went to goodwill. As I was going through boxes, I found some old negatives […]

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More Baby Pictures!

The first balloon.

Lots of hair starting to grow in. We can even use hair clips now!

Just happy to be in front of a camera.

At tina’s graduation party, trying on daddy’s hat.

Nothing on earth is better than a big pile of stuffed animals.

For whatever reason, this is the best game in the world. Nothing […]

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First swim

Today was 85, sunny, humid.. a perfect first day to try swimming. The pools here are all heated, which makes it double perfect.

Getting ready to put the swimsuit on

No surprises here, she really liked it.

After mastering swimming, we wanted to see if she could try walking. Not bad, for a first attempt!

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Halloween 2007

My first choice of costume for the baby was Master Blaster from Beyond Thunderdome.

My choice was of course discarded in favor of “happy caterpillar”.

She really hated this costume, and except for maybe 5 minutes, screamed when the little caterpillar hat was on her head.
More pics here..

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I’m not sure they still make you do this, but back when I was in high school if you wanted to more easily get into college, they tried to make you take a foreign language. So I picked German. I don’t know why I did that. Spanish or Latin seems more useful. […]

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Admiral Ackbar Cereal

Your tongues can’t repel flavor of that magnitude..

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Bollucks!

Tonite we watched “The Queen”, starring Helen Mirren, and some actor that looks exactly like an evil Tony Blair doppleganger. So about half way through the movie, Karen asks “So I don’t get this. What’s the difference between England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom?”
And I reply, “Well, EVERYONE knows that it’s all […]

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The difference between code and decks

Imagine a scenario where you want someone to build a deck for you (no, not this deck)

I mean the other kind of deck. The one made of wood that you have to paint.
So you want to build a deck. So you hire a contractor, and tell him “I want you to make me […]

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Process: Easy. Implementation: Hard

This weekend, I decided to change the oil and oil filter in my lawn tractor. John Deere actually makes this process EXTREMELY easy, in fact, you don’t even need tools to do it. So I drain all the oil out, no problem. And the instructions say to just twist off the oil […]

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Welcome Back Andrew!

After 2 weeks, Andrew was finally discharged from Hartford Hospital this morning. He had a translateral mega something something, I don’t know, they opened up his chest, took out some ribs, and replaced some major plumbing, and it SUCKED BALLS.
Here’s some pictures of him in the hospital:
You KNOW you want to see them… 

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