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Much better. Day two is always harder though.  Harder to stay awake.  Material is usually harder, as Day One is used to intro everything, Day Two comes on strong.  Day Three will generally wind down fairly quickly.  Todays schedule was until 7:50p, I’d be a bit over-saturated by then, so I skipped the Ask the… Continue reading »

OK, not overly exciting today, or I should say, no time to write any of the code.  Mostly Keynotes and Javascript framework introductions.  Tomorrow should bring more opportunity to write some code and watch things happen.  Until then, all I have to show from today is a bad hair cut (a $40 bad hair cut)…… Continue reading »

Boston.  I caught a train today to Boston.  Drove to Portland and jumped on the Amtrak 696 to Boston.  I was going to go to San Francisco in November for the Adobe conference, but changed my mind two weeks ago.  I opted for the Boston Ajax Experience conference, more coding… more black tee shirts and… Continue reading »

So five years ago today I was in a wedding.  The best man no less.  My best man got married (Cue music: So happy together…) and he gave me what ever best man (in Maine) should get.  A knife.  Or some variation of, a knife.  He gave me a Leatherman Juice CS4.  Sweet.  I carried pretty… Continue reading »

I’ve vented. (Thanks Father).  It was a bit more of a job than I guestimated.  It was about 2 hours and I thought it would take about 1 hour, which is about right for me… under estimating by half.  But it’s in, and we’re all excited to see how well it works.  It does work.… Continue reading »

No, not the get it off my chest type of venting.  And no, not the guys and that special beer can kind of vent. This is back on the Pellet Stove project.  It’s time to vent.  It’s not a chimney, it’s a vent.  Because the air is being forced through the pipe I suppose is why… Continue reading »

The last round of tests all came back negative.  Good, right?  This is the story of my “sick” life.  I’m never real sick (thankfully), but they never find anything wrong with me when I feel sick, ever.  Maybe I’m just sensitive?! Oh well, back to the Dr. office Friday to talk it over.  Anyone want… Continue reading »

So anytime I feel miserable for any length of time, I juice carrots, it seems to help me rebound.  Several years ago I went on a vegetarian-like diet and one of the big components of it was to drink carrot juice daily.  I used to juice about 20 pounds of carrots a week.  It takes… Continue reading »

Slowly but surely, I eked my way to 6,000 miles on the bike.  I’m still 400 miles short of 4,000 this summer, and I’m not sure I’ll make it.  I’m been too weak/tired to ride during this “sickness” which has been a pain, because we’ve had some decent weather.  I rolled 55 miles onto the bike Saturday… Continue reading »

Poke, prod, stick.  From all angles.  What have we learned?  Not a whole lot.  With my liver enzymes low, they wanted to do an Ultrasound on my liver/gall bladder.  So off I went to the hospital again for another test.  Surprisingly enough, I was told on the spot that the preliminary “report” looked good. A… Continue reading »