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Year in Review - 2012
My 2012 highlights, distilled to a bulleted list:- Holy fat! I mean, seriously. All that effort from years ago is gone.
- Another year of maintaining the status quo with my MS. I'm reacting a bit stronger to my medicine these days, but so far it's ground the disease down to a complete halt.
- Our family shrank by one as little K was transitioned to a ( Read more... )
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Year in Review - 2010
Less than 13 hours until 2010 is officially "the past".
My yearly highlights:- My weight was at 240 a year ago. I hope to get back down to it in short order this year. Parenting has packed on the pounds. More likely it was the pretzels, now that I think about it.
- No news is great news. I started my MS treatment (a shot every other day) and haven't ( Read more... )
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Bright House's insecure Wireless Home Networking solution
As Bright House starts to roll out it's Road Runner Lightning service, the "Wireless Home Networking" solution that is bundled with it for free will begin to gain more traction. This will, unfortunately, mean plenty of wireless networks in Central Florida with insecure wireless settings ( Read more... ) -
Netgear sucks!
After accidentally blowing up my Dlink router, I've been trying to find a decent replacement. I've been through three now in the past week. My most recent, a Netgear WNR2000 seemed to be the one I was finally looking for. I specifically exchanged router number 2 for the WNR2000 because this one offered everything the last one did plus "Multiple ( Read more... ) -
HMOs
When I left my job in 2008, one of my biggest fears was "Will I need insurance?" I was quite happy with my PPO insurance through InCharge (and earlier, the "pretty much everything's covered" dot-com insurance at Citrix). At my height/weight ratio back then, it was pretty much impossible to get private insurance, even HDHP+HSA plans with $5200 ( Read more... ) -
Year in Review - 2009
Another year almost over:- My weight was hovering around 270 in January. I started working with Kat Fieler, an awesome and inexpensive personal trainer, twice a week this year and am down to around 240 now. If I can get down to 200 by the end of 2010, I'll be very satisfied. Even as it is right now, I'm happy with the weight loss, muscle gain, ( Read more... )
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LJ becomes obsolete
Now that I'm on Facebook, I've mostly stopped posting on LJ. With LJ, I feel like I need to have something important to say, which I usually don't. Twitter's inane one-liners and jarring, disjointed reply-to tweets were just annoying. Facebook strikes the perfect blend of promoting unobtrusive, minimal conversations/pics/links/whatever that are ( Read more... ) -
Mental Acuity Fail
My ability to focus seems to have diminished significantly over the last few months. I find myself forgetting things more frequently and arguing points others aren't even trying to make. I will do something and then need to go back and look at what I just did to see what I'm supposed to do next. In the past week alone, I've forgotten my car keys ( Read more... ) -
Honeymoon Roundup
Tam and I embarked on our honeymoon last week. We took a 7-day cruise to Alaska that was jam-packed with excursions. Pictures of it can be found on my Picasa album.
JuneauOur first stop was in Juneau, where we took a nice float plane tour. We got to see a number of forests, mountains, and glaciers up close. The blue glacier ice was especially ( Read more... ) -
Seattle
I've almost forgotten about LJ ever since finally joining Facebook.
Tam and I started our long-awaited honeymoon vacation. We flew into Seattle yesterday and today we'll be boarding the Norwegian Pearl for a 7-day cruise of Alaska.
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