June 30, 2004 Wednesday
If I'm paying four or five bucks for a sandwich, I shouldn't have to participate in assembling it.
June 29, 2004 Tuesday
Around the end of January I began reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson which is part one of a trilogy he calls The Baroque Cycle. Five months later I have finished its 916 pages. I immediately began reading The Confusion which...
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June 28, 2004 Monday
Tim came over tonight. We shared a couple Red Baron supreme pizzas, half a dozen diet sodas, and two games of Bowl Bound. The first game featured my Cornhuskers versus Tim's Fighting Irish. Nebraska scored the first ten points and...
June 27, 2004 Sunday
Friday night Lexie and I made a stop at Barnes and Noble. Browsing the science fiction stacks I found a book that sounded like something she might enjoy. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. Small town girl meets vampire. Nothing...
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June 26, 2004 Saturday
Madeline and Lexie went down for naps at 10:00 this morning. I figured the best way to give them some peace was to get Kevin out of the house. We went to the park. It rained yesterday and the day...
June 25, 2004 Friday
The Geo-Trax product line has grown: Up! Fisher-Price has added new products to their kids rail system which give track builders new options. I had no idea this was coming. Lexie met with another teacher last night to work on...
June 24, 2004 Thursday
The air conditioner folks came out and did our checks and cleaning service. The problem with the compressor not starting has to do with our leaky roof. Apparently the ac has a switch that will cut off the compressor when...
June 23, 2004 Wednesday
In the "be careful what you ask for" department: When there were noises made about creating a process improvement committee I made it known that I was interested in being a part of it. Of course I've just read in...
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June 22, 2004 Tuesday
I talked to Vicki this morning and she told me that the folks were apparently in a big rush and have lined up a contractor for the position. Vicki said that she didn't have a lot of confidence in the...
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June 21, 2004 Monday
An enjoyable evening with Gordon and Tim. We met at Live Oak for a round of disc golf at six o'clock. Gordon brought a guy named Johnathan along to play with us. Since none of us had played in a...
June 20, 2004 Sunday
We've kind of been working a Father's Day weekend thing. On Thursday we took a little shopping trip. With my 40% off coupon, I got the DareDevil DVD for $5.99 at Half Price Books. I also got four single beers...
June 19, 2004 Saturday
No big plans for today and no regrets about the way we spent it. Did a little house cleaning this morning. Laundry and vacuuming mostly. Lunch at CiCi's pizza. Kevin and I played air hockey, spent a little time at...
June 18, 2004 Friday
Here's a classic dilemma. I like my job. I get to do a lot of fun stuff. In the last year I've improved my SQL writing in several dialects, learned a little JavaScript, written a couple of ASP.NET applications, gotten...
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June 17, 2004 Thursday
Lexie took Luke to the vet for dental work today. They had to extract one of his teeth. Now he's on Amoxycillin too. We've got him isolated in the guest room for now. He was under general anasthetic and is...
June 16, 2004 Wednesday
Our "vacation" to Arkansas went pretty much like it was planned. A whole bunch of driving and sleeping in different beds. Lexie's family had their biannual reunion at Petit Jean State Park this past weekend. There were about forty-two family...
June 8, 2004 Tuesday
On Sunday we finished John Varley's The Golden Globe. The book starts off in a pretty fun way depicting rather bizarre events on and offstage of a backwater production of Romeo and Juliet. But about a hundred or so pages...
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June 7, 2004 Monday
I've never had much luck with shoes. My right foot is just a little bigger than my left. That's normal since I'm right handed, so there must be more up than that. Whatever the case, I am never entirely satisfied...
June 6, 2004 Sunday
During the first conversation that I had with Lexie (Sep 14, 1991) I lamented that no liquor went with Dr Pepper. Probably a tactic to make sure that she wouldn't try to carry on any further conversation with me. She...
June 5, 2004 Saturday
I haven't mentioned it over here, but I've been following and occasionally participating in the Requisite Organization discussions over on Manasclerk's Power Struggle. Now that I've added RO to my schema, I can't help but see it in a variety...
June 4, 2004 Friday
I took a half-day of personal leave so Lexie and I could go see the movie on opening day today. We got there about 70 minutes before showtime and were second in line for the showing. Ours was the first...
June 3, 2004 Thursday
We've been teaching Kevin to sing "America the Beautiful." He's learning it pretty quickly. Tonight, while driving home from buying tickets for the 1:10 showing of Harry Potter III tomorrow, Kevin spotted an airplane silhouetted against the evening sky. He...
I wrote a little utility for Paul (the Network Administrator) today. He has a set of scheduled batch files that do daily database backups to files in five directories named "MON", "TUE", "WED", "THR" and "FRI". His conventional backups are...
Last night Lexie and I watched Matchstick Men. It is a story of redemption. The lead characters are con artists. The protagonist of John Varley's The Golden Globe, which is my current read-aloud book, is an actor who is also...
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June 2, 2004 Wednesday
A looming project that's been sent my way involves putting our Application for Employment on our internet site. I imagine letting applicants create an account under which they can keep their application current and upload files like resumes, cover letters...
June 1, 2004 Tuesday
"... we all have a tendency to see what validates our beliefs. Indeed, my belief system provides the schema through which I create meaning in my world." - manasclerk "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the...