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Happy Leap Day!

Why 'leap' though? We're moving the calendar backwards, not forwards. Leaping implies forward motion. The calendar needs to slow down to match the solar position.

Ok, not so much what I do as what my company does. The other day, I received this really nice report from my company showing award winning projects from last year that were designed using my company's software. We don't call ourselves a CAD company anymore (we let AutoCAD take that credit), but I don't remember our new term.

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Netflix has some weird deal going on with the post office. On Saturday, word_geek and I sent back two discs. Yesterday, when the post office is closed, I get an email saying they have received the discs. This morning, I get an email saying my next 2 movies are on their way and will be here on Wednesday. This afternoon, word_geek checks the mail... and there are ( Read more... )

Meeple (aka Sparky by word_geek) and I have been geocaching for about a year now. We actually found our first cache February 29, 2004, but we've only been doing it actively for a little less than a year. Geocaching is great. You get to use all these high-tech gadgets (geeky!) but you're outside being active (not geeky ( Read more... )

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Meeple and I ventured across the ocean to found Meeple Stadt in the scenic county of Luxembourg.

Or good is bad?


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My community concert band started up rehearsals again on Wednesday night. Last winter, the music director of a local military academy who had just moved over from England joined our band. So this fall's concert is "Everything England" and he'll be conducting 3 of the pieces. The first piece up is Rule Britannia. And all I can think of the ( Read more... )