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But you will never break his spirit!

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Follow up to yesterday’s skateboarding adventure:

I spent the afternoon at the hospital with my son as we waited to get him cast for a fractured wrist. His sister had a similar accident last summer on her skateboard and after that incident I seriously considered banning the activity from the house. The problem is that all of his friends are skate fanatics, much in the same way that me and my boys were into basketball and martial arts at his age.

The fracture was minor and he is fine. However I still feel bad. I know boys will be boys, and Continue reading “But you will never break his spirit!”

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Happy Easter or 4/20 Celebratin’

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I am always amazed at the diversity of my friends. For the past few days my Facebook feed is populated with pretty much Easter, Passover, and 4/20 updates. The few remaining posts are all anticipating the upcoming Game of Thrones, Mad Men, or The Boondocks episodes. One thing that I found extremely funny is that some of my friends seem to be religious potheads. Talking about “Praising” in one thread and then talking about “blazing” in another.

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Mid Year Technology project: 2009 MacBook Pro Upgrade

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The majority of the weekend was taken up with birthday activities for the wife so I had to wait until Sunday evening to finally upgrade my old 2009 17 inch MacBook Pro with a new 1TB solid state drive (SSD). I love the design of the MacBooks of this era because the internal component are easily accessible. The upgrade took all of about 2 hours, and that included the data migration. I did the same for my 2007 MacBook Pro a few months back but it was far more difficult to install the SSD due to the construction of the case.

I decided it was time to upgrade since the price of SSDs are dropping as their Continue reading “Mid Year Technology project: 2009 MacBook Pro Upgrade”

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Happy Birthday Munchkin!

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Happy Birthday to my amazing daughter. I have watched you grow over the past 16 years into a beautiful and intelligent young woman. Always stand tall, always stay proud. I will love you forever!

p.s., Don’t take ‘ish from anyone!

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Facebook look back: Cool or not cool

In recognition of their 10th anniversary, the team over at Facebook added this new feature that enables users to automatically generate a video montage of the most memorable posts, pictures and events that they have shared since joining the popular social network. Considering that the video was probably compiled and edited via a set of programming based algorithms, I have to admit that I was impressed at the end result of my video. However, many of my friends had different takes on the new feature.

One of my friends likened the automated video creation to coming home and finding a stranger going through your photo albums and pulling random pictures out. Another friend called the videos Continue reading “Facebook look back: Cool or not cool”

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Down to the wire

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My project for this evening….. complete several loads of laundry and clean the house before the wife returns tomorrow after spending two weeks overseas visiting family and friends. It should be a piece of cake. Now if I can just remember where I left the kids.

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Don’t worry, baby girl. I got this!

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I saw my girl off to the airport today as she heads to Norway for a few weeks to catch up with family and friends. We are gonna miss her. The upside, the kids and I are planning a series of wild parties. She said that she would be checking in to see if I can handle two weeks alone with the kids. Oh I can handle it. The DJ booth and the full bar should be installed by tomorrow afternoon, just in time for the weekend! Let the debauchery begin! I just have to make sure that the kids don’t starve–or worse: have a steady diet of pizza and McD’s burgers & fries! But that might be so bad. I heard that the tomatoes in Pizza counts as vegetables. The same goes for the lettuce on top of a Big Mac.

I am wondering if I can get something like this completely done to the house before she returns.
http://thechive.com/…/girl-drops-30k-converting-house…/

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Happy Birthday Ma Dukes!

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I spent the evening hanging out with my moms. We celebrated her birthday in grand style. We ate some White Castle (her idea and not mine), and then she put me to work hooking up her new cable boxes and DVR that the Time Warner installers screwed up. We had a nice time but I am gonna pay for that White Castle tomorrow.

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Your Jedi Mind Tricks won’t work on me!

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I got the Obi Wan Kenobi lightsaber for Christmas to finish out my Ultimate FX saber collection. Hasbro makes a Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, Darth Maul. Qui-Gon Jinn, and a Obi Wan version. The problem is that I think my wife has stolen one of my sabers. I think she took it and sold it on eBay. I had two Darth Vader lightsabers and she is trying to tell me I only had one. I am a grown ass man. I know what I spend my money on!