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It’s been close to four months since my last post. Unfortunately my life has been very hectic since about mid-July, with side projects and general work stuff. I’ve got some new posts lined for after the new year. So I’ll see you in 2012.

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So, you might be asking yourself………where the hell have I been? Well, the short answer is busy. But now that some of the major time commitments that I’ve had over the last 3 months have concluded. I can get back to posting on this blog, like back in the good old days.
Thanks for your patience, [...]

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I ended up getting my Costco rebate check in the mail a few months ago. And since that time I’ve been struggling to figure out what to buy from Costco to use up the rebate check. I really hate to use my rebate on consumables such as foodstuff, cleaning supplies, booze, etc. Since if I’ve [...]

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To say that I was a little bit burnt out with posting to this blog, is a very large understatement. So I basically took some time off during February and March, to take care of a large pile personal projects unrelated to this website.
But with that out of the way, I should be back [...]

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I really received some great Christmas gifts from my sister and her husband this year. But hands down the two best items were a Frieling 8-cup stainless steel French Press, and a copy of Momofuku.
You’ve probably already read about some of my trials and tribulations, with regard to all the glass French Presses that I’ve [...]

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Well I’m about half way through this blogs software upgrades. I’ve got all the hosting stuff taken care of, but now I’m running into issues with upgrading the WordPress software that powers this blog.
It turns out that WordPress 3.0.4 (which is the latest version) is too cutting edge of a release for all the plug-ins/widgets [...]

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And with the New Year, comes some long overdue technical updates that need to be made to this blog. As you’ve probably noticed over the last month or so, I haven’t been posting as often as in the past. It basically boils down to that I’ve run out of hard drive space in my hosting [...]

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So listen to this. My folks came out to visit me during the first weekend in December, and they brought along their cat, Misha. You might remember her from a long time ago, in this post.
Well needless to say, when my parents left for home on Tuesday morning, Misha went into hiding in the basement. [...]

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Has it been 200 already? I had to check the calendar and number 200 took about nine months to reach, while getting to number 100 only took about six months. But somehow the MIIA train just keeps on rolling down the tracks, one post after another. So thank you very much, for hanging in their [...]

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I’m back from taking a week off for a little bit of R&R, but it was more like a whole week of BS (beer and skiing). Now that I’ve got some of my vim & vigor back, it’s back to the craziness that is this blog.

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