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w00t! I am so fired!
I was fired today from my current position. I am extremely happy about it as I can now get back to doing what I do best, tech-gun-slinger-for-hire. I had been consulting for this start-up company all last year and in November they offered me a job with great pay and a healthy shot of 'juice'. I believed in what they...
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Last night was a bit chilly, with some fresh snow about so I decided to make some hot cocoa. We like Mexican style hot cocoa, and it's a bit of a ritual to make, so I got to it and got the box of Mexican chocolate from the cupboard. All the various brands we find in the local markets are in yellow/red boxes and this...
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In the fog of my mind this morning, while laying in bed waking up, I thought I heard the singing of a bird that I usually hear in the summer. I listened to it for a while, cheered by the possibility of another warm spring day. However, when I finally dragged my ass out of bed, there was an inch of new snow and it...
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The Ten Day Week

Just got back from ten days on the move. I started by heading for Santa Rosa, NM for 3 days of technical diving then heading for the Denver airport a week ago to catch a flight to NYC. Had five days there, teaching, seeing a bit of live theater, then attending the opera on Valentine's day. Not my favorite sort of...
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Another load in the wood ring in the house. We will have used about 4 cords of wood to heat the house by this coming April, up from last year, but with a corresponding steep drop in propane usage. Economically its about a push, I don't know what it totals to ecologically, I suspect also roughly equivalent.

I had a really good trip to NM...
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Blawg. A really bipolar year, with big ups and downs. Hope its the same next year. /Blawg

C y'all on the other side.

On Halloween a group of us met with our sprogs at the memorial bench for my friend's son. I was thinking about how profoundly negative the death of a child is. About how we will probably meet here a lot, as it is a marker in both time and space. After the usual meet and greet, we sauntered off to let our children get their...
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work work work work work work work...

Oh yeah, and falls here is beautiful. There are yellow aspens everywhere around my place and all up and down the surrounding mountains.

There is a memorial commemoration for my friend's child tomorrow. Its been a year and no one will ever be over it.

Yeah, I can hang.

Back from the tropics! It was really good. I participated in an event called 'tech-week' with a bunch of other technical divers. Most of the diving was in the 'twighlight zone', deeper than 200ft. I got seven dives deeper than 200ft with one to 306ft. Lots of good divers from all over the world were there.
Some nice pictures here:
http://www.advanceddivermagazine.com/divetech/divetech.html

Its chilly here now,...
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