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Today I resurrected my camera from the horrors of dust. This wasn’t just ordinary dust on the outside of the lens. That isn’t worthy of a blog entry. No, this was dust on the actual CCD and internal lens. The camera is a Panasonic Lumix FX01, a tiny little digital critter that fits snugly in…

I had a good weekend. Friday night I convinced myself to go ballroom dancing. The debate is a frequent one. On one hand, I know it will be attended by the same older folks that go every week, playing the same songs every week. I don’t really get anything out of going; it’s just keeping…

I actually visited San Francisco way back in September, but didn’t get around to writing about it because so much happened and when I tried writing I ended up with a few pages of the first day alone. It turns out that by waiting a while, the less important details get filtered out, and the…

In the last two days I have put in 25 hours of work. And the marathon won’t be letting up for another week. Next week I travel to Tampa for a supercomputing conference, and I am the project manager and sole developer for a project that will be visible conference-wide. In fact, you can see…

Today I paid off the last bit of my student loan. With one $1200 stroke I finished it off. It’s something I’ve been working on all year. I had been paying off $500 a month, but when I got my promotion and raise, I took the extra money I was earning and bumped it up…

Yesterday I volunteered to help build a trail up Badger Mountain. I have a hard time calling it a mountain without a little sarcasm, considering my Montana roots, but when you’re building a trail up it, somehow it seems like scaling Everest. I had volunteered last year to build the trail on the other side…

This evening I was about to do my laundry, but I noticed I was short on quarters. I hopped on my bike and headed over to the local Safeway, literally a 2 minute bike ride. Since it’s such a short ride, on the sidewalk most of the way, and I had gel in my hair,…

I just realized that I haven’t entered in my blog the third patent application this year. I signed the application a few months ago, and forgot about it, really. But I’m working on my contribution report for the year, and noticed it and thought I’d mention that I’m up to 3 now. A while ago…

This was quite the weekend. I’m really not sure I could have packed any more into it. I had a lot of fun, though, so I’m a happy boy. It all started after work on Friday afternoon. I signed my time card and left, hurrying home for a quick bite. I had fairly old leftovers…

This weekend was really fantastic. It started off great on friday night with a party at a friend’s house. It was close enough that my friend Josh and I could walk over there. I knew a lot of the people there, and had no problem talking to people. It was nice to be around people…