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A guy I work with, Levi, got a call from one of our users about a broken HP plotter. (A plotter is a color inkjet that prints our engineering sized documents). Levi went and checked it out. Of course the screen was giving a 12 digit system error code which means the same […]

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Ok. Not really.
Close enough, though. Jess and I went and test drove a handful of vehicles over the weekend and think we decided on the Scion xB.
The Toaster. The Box.
Whatever. It drives nice, has a ton of room and we could afford it. So I put in the order yesterday.
With an […]

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Wake up late this morning. Alarm had been off for half an hour. Get to the gym, and my body is moving like molasses. Can’t get my muscles to cooperate and I end up faking it for an hour.
Then I get home.
My smallest dog decided to make mud pies in the back […]

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Having a home theater PC on a TV that can handle it is very nice indeed.
Hitting iTunes, or even Winamp, radio on the system is great. The sound gets piped to my reciever over fiber, and the video hits the TV at 1920×1080 resolution. The visualization stuff with winamp (the pretty pictures that […]

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The lawn is soaked. So mowing is out this morning.
The house is semi-clean. Plus, I don’t want to clean anyway.
There is some laundry I could do. Key word: could.
I can’t leave the house. So the gym is out.
Well shoot.
Guess I will just have to sit here and savor the excitement of a […]

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And the summer movie season sucked.
I had such high hopes too.  Pirates 3, Superman, X3, Cars, etc… a multitude of just, eh, ok, films.
Did anyone else notice?  Just how the season has fizzed along, but nothing really stands out?
I have read that Talledega Nights (the new Will Ferrell movie) is more of the same.  Good.  […]

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By Elizabeth Moon
Finished this book last night, and man, what a good book. I read another book by Moon last year, called the Speed of Dark, and was extremely entertained by her honesty and emotion in telling the story of an autistic adult coming to terms with himself, his world and his future. (Moon’s son […]

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I have bad news.
We all are dying of a terminal disease.
It’s called life. You won’t get out alive.
But, how you go out is your choice. Do you want to go out as an overwieght, diabetic, sickly individual, pooping in a diaper cause you have no bowel control? Or do you want to go out in […]

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