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Finally got Internet at the new apartment. Went without any for over a week. This was the soonest comcast could schedule anything. Oh well, better than the crappy wireless service we had at the last place!

The wife and I are pretty much done unpacking and putting things away. I still have a little bit to do in my office, but the mess is mostly...
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The wife and I might have found an apartment. We put in an app and paid the holding deposit. It's pretty nice, just remodeled and hasn't been lived in since the remodeling. It was one we looked at a few weeks ago and decided that we liked this other one better but someone else got it first. We called to make sure it was still...
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Why is it so hard to find a place to rent that accepts a large dog and doesn't cost as much as a mortgage? The wife and I have been looking for many months and just when we think we found something that might work there is some ridiculous requirement, such as having a 600+ credit score (who has one of those in this economy?)...
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I really need to stop procrastinating on my research paper for the Medieval Italy class. I think I'm going to go with the prof's topic suggestion of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his conflicts with cities in Northern Italy. I originally wanted to write on siege warfare but apparently the university library has nothing on the topic - at least with regards to being in Italy....
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What's this crap I hear about Hollywood Video going out of business? This is not good! I live out in the sticks and the closest town only has one video rental store: yup, you guessed it, HV. This blows! The wireless Internet we have is too slow and way too expensive ($4 per GB!!!) to watch or download much of anything so I'm not really...
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Yesterday I changed the oil in the wife's '64 VW Bug and changed the oil and did a lube on the pickup. Today I was hoping to wiring up the pickup for towing a trailer but I can't seem to find the right wiring harness/kit. I've never done it before so I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, but it shouldn't be that damn...
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Been busy and spending a lot of time off-line. I need to learn to tell people "NO." Then I can have more time to do other things...

On Saturday the wifey and I met up with my cousin who is a police officer and all three of us went to the gun range for some much needed practice! It's been a long time since I've...
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Tomorrow I am going to drive the 2+ hours again to go see the wifey. We'll go to dinner and then I'll turn around and head home. Basically the same thing I did last week, but she's stressing out because today was the last day of training and tomorrow starts the tests.

Today was my mom's 61st birthday. I think it went well. My older...
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LinuxFest Northwest is next weekend and I'm planning on attending at least two presentations. Maybe next year I'll have enough free time to come up with a presentation of my own. I don't think I've done one since before it was called LinuxFest - maybe 11-12 years ago?

I don't think I've been to a BLUG meeting for several years either.. I doubt anyone remembers...
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Well class wasn't canceled today.. so much for a 5 day weekend.

The wifey should be leaving in about 30 minutes to head home for the weekend. Then there's only one more week of this crap and back to normal.

I've been trying to think of jobs I can do to make money while going to school since all the places I've applied to haven't...
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I got THE best parking place in the commuter lot at school today: first row, first space! I have never, ever, in my 3+ years of being at WWU gotten that spot. I was so thrilled and thought today was going to be pretty good. Then I got to class. Hanging on the door is a white piece of paper saying "Prof Diehl's Hist 422...
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I ended up going down to visit the wife for dinner (it was our 10 month anniversary) and then drove home.

We went to a Mongolian BBQ in the town she's staying in that was maybe 4 blocks from her hotel. It was pretty good and I would recommend it, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called?!?

The drive...
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