Mike on April 27th, 2008

I’m hoping to post a few “catch up” articles to account for the time when I was without my main computer.
Here’s the first catch up article:
Camping. Our friends Tracy and Allison asked if we wanted to go camping with them at Inks Lake a few weeks ago. I haven’t been camping since I [...]

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Mike on April 24th, 2008

I just got in from seeing one of my favorite bands from youth.  I had the pleasure of seeing Rush.  My good friend Lance called me last week and asked me if I wanted to go to the Rush concert.  I knew they were coming to town (I caught an ad on the radio), but [...]

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Mike on April 23rd, 2008

Well, my aforementioned technology crisis has improved in the past few days. Unfortunately the iPod repair fairy did not visit my busted iPod and fix it. However, I did get another motherboard in and restored my old system. It’s not as super fantastic as the board I was trying to install, but [...]

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I dropped my ipod and rendered it useless today. I wouldn’t be that upset except I listened to it just about every day. I affectionately called it GuentzelPod when I was asked to name it in iTunes.
I found myself going through the five stages of grief:

Denial – I did not just drop my [...]

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Mike on April 9th, 2008

I never really thought I would actually miss my home computer.
Oh sure, I would miss the convenience of checking my emails, my RSS feeds and playing a few various online games, but I could probably do without that for a week or two, right?
No…not even close.  In addition to the above, I also have fallen [...]

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Mike on April 3rd, 2008

I signed up for Facebook a long time ago (when I noticed a lot of the students at McCombs were using it).  I had no idea that something so seemingly simple would balloon (nay, explode) into the 800 pound gorilla it is now.
For those that don’t know, Facebook is a social networking site that originally [...]

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