Category: Personal
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Where to start…
Last Night, I went bowling with the several of my co-workers, and found out a couple of things about the latest addition to the GCSAA tech group. First of all, he’s a Lawrence native, and he is a fellow ’97 graduate of Lawrence High. He also mentioned that his girlfriend was a Chiefs Cheerleader. I…
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Colbalt Debut
My new laptop came in off the big brown truck this morning. I set it up to work off the wireless network, and am posting from up in the dining room.
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Whither Cobalt
The offical word from Dell is that a laptop that I ordered was sent on the brown truck (UPS) by this morning. At some point, I will be transferring data from my desktop “Monte-Carlo” to the new laptop “Cobalt,” then I will re-image (read: format) Monte-Carlo for my brother, and put back any files that…
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You have 1 new message….
Debbie Slack left me a message on my landline voicemail today hoping I had a happy birthday.
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vacation notes
two days on the road…. we’ve made it to the Quality Suites at Evergreen Parkway on the west side of Denver. When fueling up in Wakeeney, the Phillips 66 station offered 89 Octane gas as regular, and 90 for midgrade. Ethanol fuel, anyone. At Goodland, several members of a car colector club happened to be…
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going on vacation
Tommorow Morning, I will be leaving on vacation with my parents. Our destination: Coloroado
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on the street
As I was heading home from work this evening, I notice a couple of joggers heading east down the Bob Billings Parkway as I was about to turn north on Clinton Parkway. One of them happened to reconize and wave at me — it was Debbie Slack
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the front porch
Johnny’s tavern, a local bar here in town, has a “Cajun night” every 1st and 3rd wendsday. Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies normally plays a blend of country and bluegrass. This week at Johnny’s, I ran into someone who I hadn’t seen in a while: Brityn Nieder
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you know you’re hardcore when….
when attending a meeting on the new US 59 freeway, I was reconized by two folks there, one a retired KDOT engineer, another one of the KDOT reps there….
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Graduation Weekend
This past weekend was graduation at KU…. and there was a member of the “family” that was walking down the hill. Not only was it Ashley Lafond‘s graduation, but this Saturday happened to also be her birthday. I dropped by for a little over an hour on Sunday afternoon and said hi, brought a card,…