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Entries from April 2008

Catching Up - The Camping Trip

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Family

The Rush Concert

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Uncategorized

Back to (almost) Normal

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Rants · Technology

GuentzelPod Rest In Peace - The Five Stages of Grief

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Rants

Where Have You Gone Joe Dimaggio?

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Rants

Rediscovering Facebook

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Friends · Wonder