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As discussed earlier... I am a cold heartless ***... but also I am also a warm hearted one as well... just depends on the situation and last night was one of those cases. Being at the wedding a couple friends and I decided to show our love with a little covert decorating of the happy couples hotel room (this is something that is done at weddings ...

Big ole congratulations to go my friends Bri and Pat who finally got around to tying the knot yesterday in Bri's home town of Worthington, MN: Twas a nice service in the local Lutheran church (and one that was the first I'd ever seen with a giant cross behind the alter) and the dinner and dance afterwards was just as good... and like ...

In life there are plenty of unexpected things that can happen and so as to avoid many of them we prepare... we brush our teeth to avoid cavities, we wear a seatbelt to avoid the windshield, we lock our doors to keep people from breaking in, and we carry health insurance so as to avoid overwhelming medical bills. Sure no level of prevention or ...

Over the years I've found that I'm an unusual kind of .NET developer... as I really don't use databases directly either personally or professionally. Sure BrendansStudentLoans.com has a SQL 2005 backend with a dozen quick stored procedures... but other than that, the only real DB programming I've done was in the 2002 timeframe when ...

I purchased my copy of Halo 3 yesterday... began playing it today ~3pm and just got done now. Subtract ~2.5 hours for dinner and a phone call and that gives me a ~9 hour play time... god my hands hurt, but now it is over and I can sleep. Damn pretty game, I'll write more after I'm rested and and can see straight.

I'm sad to say that two of my elected officials, people I have cast votes for in past have voted against the United States Constitution. Despite being a noble attempt to give full congressional representation to the residents of the District of Columbia, H.R. 1905: District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007 (cloture in Senate) is an ...

... all normal. Damn it. Despite what I and the technician saw in terms of brighter spots on the back of my hands... "blood flow to hands is normal and symmetric" and my thyroid, CPK and Adolase tests all came back normal. Damn it. And this on the day I find out that my insurance costs are going up by 10%. Damn it. Next step will ...

I've got a little problem... I tend to do weird things when I'm bored (which isn't a common state) and given the amount of free time I've had over the last number of months my level of boredom has steadily increased and avenues for productive release decreased. What is my latest weird act? Documenting a publicly visible API on ...

In past whenever the vampires from the blood bank would show up at my school or work I'd make it a point to go out and give a pint or two (I've got more than enough) and never had any problem... until ~18 months ago when I felt unbelievably light headed and broke into a light cold sweat during one particular blood letting. A similar thing ...

When neurologist #3 suggested a bone scan I asked to delay it for a month or so so that I could re-aggravate my hands with a month or so of 'normal use' and am now ready to go in for the tests at 7:30 on Wednesday morning in Sioux Falls. Yea for getting up nice and early! I am quite happy that they can get me in so quick as I'm ...