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I’m back after food poisoning
At least that’s seems to be the best guess of what happened to me on Tuesday night. It began with a headache and then the stomachache joined it while we were on our errands on coming home. Normally, I have … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Canon
I have no recollection how old he is today and he’s one of the nephews who lives over in Georgetown. He’s the youngest of the trio. He is starting to speak but has Wyatt as his translator. As for our … Continue reading
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Picayune‘s amended plan goes into effect 11/12
Since the transition is going to take longer than I anticipated, I took Jeremy’s advice on having both servers up at once. It’s a good thing I have five static IPs courtesy of AT&T (eight years ago I only wanted … Continue reading
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Happy Seventh Anniversary Kim & Rad!
Our cool friends in Phoenix celebrate seven years of marriage today! Maybe their kids will make something cool for them and they’ll have a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant in the area, preferably close to where the wedding took … Continue reading
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Picayune may be offline for a bit, starting 11/11
Last week the migration was somewhat of a bust and then illness took me out for a good chunk. Thus, shelving the shift over. The sticky part of upgrading is always getting all some 950+ WordPress entries with graphics and … Continue reading
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JP Morgan/Chase is off our backs
In some ways I’m bummed about the recent four-year relationship with them and their Visa card ending but not too much, in light of their upcoming gouging, aka their “Blame Obama & Frank” rules…never mind how much TARP money they … Continue reading
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Back from illness
With Somara being sick last week and all the chaos happening in my life, it was not a matter of “if” I would get sick but “when” as always. It started to kick in around Sunday evening/Monday morning, smacking me … Continue reading
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Picayune upgrade begins today
If all goes well, it will be quick, painless and most importantly, successful. Quick: It’s done before Sunday night Painless: I don’t need to reinstall, reimport and/or re-enter much Successful: This won’t look any different, nothing is lost and the … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Lee “Doc” Rhea
My friend is a prime number like me today! You’ll have to figure out the number since I don’t really want to disclose it without his permission. I wish I did post this sooner or via the scheduling in WP … Continue reading
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Picayune upgrades ahead, probably this weekend
Our new Mac Mini arrived Monday! However, the internal hard drive was puny (160 GB) for our purposes so I had permission to purchase a new, larger one (500 GB) which was a mere $90. With some major help from … Continue reading
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Picayune upgrade coming!
The good news from Apple kept on coming for the first half of the week. On Monday, Apple beat the Street on earnings; Tuesday was new hardware (more later) and today thanks to Tuesday’s announcements, we’re getting a new Mac … Continue reading
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Happy Second Anniversary to Nancy & Jose!
Coinciding with the birth of Evelyn, my best friend Jose married Nancy at an impressive ceremony in Central Florida. It was the culmination of a great weekend I still enjoyed greatly even though Somara says I continue to remind her … Continue reading
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Happy Second Birthday Evelyn!
Evelyn’s parents brought her out a couple weeks ago to celebrate while they were in Austin for ACL, now there’s some cunning parenting, balancing out the partying for all ages! Somara and I missed the specific party for the little … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Helen
I know it’s rather late and her birthday has less than two hours to go (she’s on EDT) but she’s cool. Helen is currently a teacher so she worked hard, went to college and still has to go to school … Continue reading
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A brief weekend off to enjoy the (latest) good news
So much to write about and so much has happened recently but since I’m ahead of schedule for the pace I have put myself on for this site, I took the weekend off to practically do nothing, similar to what … Continue reading
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