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Ladies and gentlemen it’s official, I have completed my first upgrade of Wordpress since its initial install so many moons ago.

Aside from a couple of hiccups (one being my own dang fault), it went very smoothly.

You should notice a new piece of functionality here. You will ( Read more... )

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I determined a number of weeks back that I had not been reading enough. My list of books to read had gotten longer and I hadn’t even made a dent in it. So, I started from the top.

I took a moment to think back over the last five weeks and try to determine how much reading I ( Read more... )

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I have, in recent internet searches, been discouraged if not out right embarrassed by some of my Geek brethren as of late. No longer is being Geek an excuse to be socially stupid, and it makes categorical inaccuracies down right inexcusable. As a matter of point, we should be ( Read more... )

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For those of you who may have enjoyed my Bar Notes, rejoice! Over the next few weeks I’m going to be revising my currently posted Notes as well as posting some new ones.

I will be posting an entry notifying everyone as I update previous notes with linkage.

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How do you start your first blog post in almost seven months? In a not so recent conversation with a friend of mine the subject of blog posting, it was spoken of as a skill that needs practice and repetition, much like a muscle. So here I am trying to get back into a work out ( Read more... )

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Greetings readers! I return to you after another set of Renaissance Festival weekends have passed. I pleased to announce that I have yet to repeat my unintentional self harm perpetrated during first weekend. In fact, it has been quite the run so far.

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I’d love to, at this point, be able to regail you with tales of the first weekend of Renaissance festival. No, I’d love to, but instead I have a horror story about how a mixture of stubbornness and medicinals can cause you teh owies.
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Yup, that’s right, today is the big three-oh. I’d like to be able to say that I’ve done some sort of super introspection of my life and that I’ve found some seemingly vibrant truth to the world… but that is just not true.

I’ve had the equally fortunate and unfortunate ( Read more... )

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So this past weekend was the Shakopee city festival, Derby Days. Aside from the massive amount of beer we sold and the fifty-three mosquitoes bites I picked up in twenty-five minutes on Saturday night, there was another highlight of the weekend.
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As per usual, the quotes are behind the cut.
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