Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
My son is 4 and a half years old. Kids that age tend to count out loud -- at random times and for no particular reason.
While driving during our recent vacation with my parents in tow, my son started counting. At first no one was really paying attention to him ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
One of my favorite beach activities when I was younger was to dig through the wet sand and find sand crabs. I've been trying to find a picture of the kind of crab I'm talking about on the Internet, but I'm having some trouble. Basically, they look like a giant ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Today is my birthday. I'm not announcing it as a way to solicit well wishes. I don't think I'm that desperate.
For anyone that knows Hebrew, you would know that the word chai means life. The "ch" is pronounced with that guttural sound. The same as in Chanukah. Chai rhymes with ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Until recently, I only had a LinkedIn account. LinkedIn is more of a business focused, social networking site. I mainly use it to keep in touch with ex-coworkers.
An ex-coworker sent me an invitation to create a Facebook account. I had been doing all I could to avoid creating a Facebook ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I blew it. I played poker at a co-worker's house last night. I finished 5th out of 20. Top 4 paid. The last hand was a total mess for me.
There were 6 players. The blinds were 300/600. I had about 6500 in chips. There were two people with shorter stacks ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
My parents got free tickets to an Orioles game last week, so my parents, my daughter, and I went to the game. It was my daughter's first game ever and she was very excited. We had a really great time and it was a phenomenal game. The Orioles beat the ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I'm not a big fan of spoilers. I hate knowing what is going to happen in a movie or TV show before I see it.
I took my son to see Wall-E on Sunday. As I was getting into my car, my daughter's friend says, "You know EVE dies at the ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
My daughter has a black eye.
Yesterday was my daughter's first day of a week long camp. I had to go to my in-laws house after work to help them with some computer and electronics stuff -- I'm their own personal IT shop -- so my wife and kids met me ...
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