Happy Holidays

Posted on December 28, 2004 by admin

So the past week or so has been crazy. Last week was spent prepping Christmas presents. The last part of the week Bridgit and I hung out with my family. I sung in the midnight mass choir at Holy Trinity then on Christmas morning my family opened presents and played Cranium. Then I went to Bridgit's Grandmothers in Dearborn. That was followed by exchanging gifts with her immediate family. The next day we had breakfast at Dan and Betsy's with a bunch of friends before mass. After mass we went to Bridgit's aunt and uncles for brunch, then to Michael and Kathleens to see Thersea open her presents. The we had dinner. Yesterday I went to Dan's to start candy then a bunch of us (Sarah, Dan, Dan, Eric, Holly, Bridgit, and I) went XC skiing at Hudson Mills. This might be a good time to add that Bridgit got me new, beefy, ski boots. We then made pizza and then went to Dan and Betsy's to get rid of some wine.

As you can see its been a hectic few days.

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!!!

blog spammers

Posted on December 15, 2004 by admin

So today I noticed that over the past couple days most of my posts had a lot of comments. They were all from some stupid casino. I ended up deleting about 2000 comments. The worst part was that they were from a ton of different IP's so I couldn't just ban IP's. I now have a blacklist that prevents comments from known spammers. Also I have added a couple expressions, which means you can't post any comments with the words “poker” or “debt consolidation” in them.

Almost done

Posted on December 10, 2004 by admin

One final with a paper due on monday, then I am done, well I have to go to a class on wednesday, but just sit there.

Woot!!!

beautiful day

Posted on December 8, 2004 by admin

It was beautiful out (for the time of year). It was sunny and in the high 40's, so I went paddling. All the leaves have changed, and most are off the trees. We have had quite a bit of rain and snow over the past couple weeks, so the water is higher that it was last month.

Jury Time

Posted on December 7, 2004 by admin

I had jury duty this morning, it wasn't too bad. I got selected for a civil suit that goes to trial on the 29th. At least I am done with classes and finals then.

OtR

Posted on December 5, 2004 by admin

The concert was great. I went with Bridgit, Holly, Abe, Bob, and Brenden. Griffin House opened, and they were so great that we bought both of their albums. OtR was awesome as usual. They only did 2 encores, and the second was only Karin doing one song. Last year we got 3 encores out of them…

Over the Rhine

Posted on December 4, 2004 by admin

Its December and that means that it's time for Over the Rhine to be in Ann Arbor. We've got tickets and the past 2 years it has been a great show.

been 4 years

Posted on December 4, 2004 by admin

In a couple weeks it will be 4 years that I have worked at the labs. It's time to move on since I will no longer be a student. I am also training Joe and Rob how to keep the labs running. That will be fun!!!!

yup IE windows problems

Posted on November 15, 2004 by admin

well on the main/blog page the navbar on the left does not show up. So if you are using IE 6 GET A REAL BROWSER and while you are at it a real computer too.

WoW

Posted on November 9, 2004 by admin

So Worlds of Warcraft is coming out soon, and the open beta has started, I am currently downloading the 2.4 Gb installer so I can play it on the eMac at work that is the only machine that I have access to that can actually play it…..

I need a new computer.

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