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  • the new place, part 1

    I’m slowly getting everything unpacked at my new place and now as I pack a quick bag to take on a three-day retreat I’m coordinating up in Belton, I noticed something. I love that natural light can bathe me and my room in the morning. I hate that I had to wake up before that…

  • my annual move

    I’m in the middle of packing and moving to my new place and just finished packing away all of my books. Every year, I rediscover books that I completely forgot that I own. It has been really bad this year since most of my books were on shelves in the back of my closet. Next…

  • the woodlands and the blowfish

    I’m heading out tomorrow night to The Woodlands to visit Vanessa for the weekend. Her mom, through a free ticket offer at her work, was able to get us tickets to see Hootie and the Blowfish on Friday. As Vanessa put it, “I think I remembered liking one of their songs in sixth grade.” I…

  • easy bank transfers with paypal

    Do you have checking accounts over multiple banks? Do you hate having to write yourself a check and go to an ATM to deposit it? An easy way to transfer the money between banks without having to actually do any work is via PayPal. Without a fee, you can add funds to your account from…

  • i can’t see your amazing website

    In case anyone noticed and was concerned, my Internet-life was in a coma for about 13 hours today after a network failure at my server farm. My farm, rather the company whose farm hosts my site, suffered from a failed router/switch. After a battery of tests, changing configs and replacing equipment, everything appears to be…

  • a different type of hotdog map

    I found this today and enjoyed playing with it. My test? Hot Dogs Across America CommunityWalk Map – Hot Dogs