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Well, I, like Darren not that long ago, took one step closer to becoming an adult. I bought a house. In theory anyway. We have a verbally accepted offer from the seller for our offer which means that in theory the other five realtors (including… Mindy McPherson.. shudder) can’t get in on the deal. And […]

On Saturday we were supposed to go boating on Cultas with Raskal on his funky boat. Since the last few weeks have been scorchingly hot, this was a eagerly anticipated event. I did keep my eye on the weather though, as I’m paranoid about this sort of thing. The prediction for saturday was a high

Well, today somehow went from a great day, to a shitty day, and back again. The last couple of days (since getting back from holidays) have been great. Work was productive and flew by, things were workign properly all around. Life was good. Then today around 4pm I get a call from a salesrep saying

Been working on a few things lately. Well, more like having them on the list of things to work on. UML which I mentioned before. Still no real luck with it yet though 🙁 MySQL replication. Mainly just so I can say I did it, maybe keep a backup of the database from this machine

Why is it that on weekends I spend more time cleaning than I do any other time? Aren’t weekends for having fun and not being at home? This being a grown-up thing sucks! I want the time when weekend cleaning meant that mom got me to clean a bathroom before I escaped out to play

Even though long ago I wrote that I’d never have banner ads on a site of mine, I do now. Because I’m a whore. But as I said on UFies, on the other hand this’ll hopefully help me out with a bit of extra money so that I can keep the server up and running

Picture of the boys (Duane, Eldon, Alan, Shaun, and Neil) playing around at Hicks Lake yesterday.

I guess I don’t learn… me and the sun just don’t mix. Maybe that’s why I took on the life of a programmer, sitting in dark, sunless areas with nothing around me to change my skin from white but the radiation slowly seeping from my monitors. On Cat5’s suggestion a bunch of people headed up

Well, the plan originally was to sleep in just about as late as I could, slumbering in peace and perfect happiness until my body decided it was time to get up, and then and only then would I slowly surrender sleep and rise up through conciousness, slowly and serenely, until the moment I broke through

Well, not literally, but close. I decided to pump it up a notch today at the gym, a sign of my renewal to eat smaller meals and do more in the gym like I’m supposed to be doing. Put squat (machine, not free) up to 270 from 250 for 15 reps, leg curl to 130