Ever have one of those door-to-door cable (I know, it’s not cable, it’s fiber) salesmen come  to your door hoping to change your provider? This happened to me three months prior to moving across the country. I dismissed the salesman originally by telling him I was about to move and the savings would have to be huge to warrant the effort of switching from…

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I’ve now been “blogging” for about 15 years. I’m still not particularly good at it, but I’ve resigned myself to the fact that this will merely serve as my digital memoirs. I won’t get rich off it, I may never write a massively successful piece, but many years after I’m gone, hopefully these bits will still exist in one form or another to allow…

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This trip journal was written the night of or the morning after the travel described. I attempted to make this a beautiful presentation with photos inline, but it turned into a bear of a project that would have never been finished (think: the eight-years-in-progress Japanese trip blog I’ve been writing) so instead you get a wall of text and I tell you “you can…

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Because I accidentally hit “Publish” rather than “Save Draft” on our trip log. It wasn’t done… The trip, adding pictures, adding links, and editing all remain. Please forgive me for allowing that to happen.

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A few items worth note since the last report: We’ve hired movers. We’ll do the packing, but figured it was worth the ~$1200 extra (the cost of gas makes moving yourself pretty costly) to enjoy our trip and have our valuables insured. Our move date is September 30. We won’t necessarily be out of town by then, but we do need to be in…

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It is upon us. On Monday night, the guys got together and did our draft. Unlike previous years, we actually got the ball rolling on rule changes early this year so a few actually passed. Most notable is the drop to a single keeper next year. Lame, but oh well. My keeper stuff got a little screwed up as I thought keepers were increased…

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