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07 January 2010 ~ Comments Off

A Little Bump in the Road

This is a quick personal post to update my friends that are far from me. Many of you know that Carrie and I have been trying to have another child. We have a wonderful 3 year old little girl but she very badly wants to have siblings. We have been working on that task for [...]

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13 August 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Trying to find an identity

Its funny how events in your life change your perception of yourself. For the last year I have been primarily focused on trying to sort out what kind of business I wanted to run now that I am on my own. Something I am still working on daily. But in the mean time it seems [...]

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15 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Showing my colors – Red and Black

I am really digging the new theme on my blog and so I have decide to add some personal touches. I do a lot with the Adobe tools. To say that I am excited about the technology is a ridiculous understatement. Hopefully if you are reading this you have found that I occasionally say something [...]

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10 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Fail! Too Funny Not To Share

Ok, I love Fail Blog and these two where just too funny not to share. Pen Trick Fail Car Park Fail Enjoy.

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21 December 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Winterpolooza In PDX

I love living in the Pacific Northwest. I am one of those very odd people who actually loves the rain. And there is only one thing I love more than rain and thats snow. The problem is that in general we don’t get a lot of snow here in Portland. Every winter we get a [...]

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11 December 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Recovering Nicely – A Travel Recap

I am settling into life at home after spending much of November on the road. After MAX US I spent a couple days at home before the family took off for Italy and MAX Europe. I had the opportunity to teach a 1 day class on building AIR applications with Javascript at both the US [...]

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08 October 2008 ~ 9 Comments

“I wanna feel the car crash”

I grabbed the KINK Live 11 album at my local Starbucks last week. The album is a set of acoustic studio recordings from artists that have played in the KINK Live Lounge. I bought the album because it had some of my favorite songs and I love acoustic music. But I have also really enjoyed [...]

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27 June 2008 ~ 15 Comments

I am going through… the change

Ok, I can’t put this off any more. I keep not blogging about little things because I told my self I wouldn’t write anything else until I got this more important post out of the way. But I keep not having time for this more important post, so I just need to get this done. [...]

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07 May 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Yet another addiction in my life – Geocaching

Ok, I will admit it, I have an addiction. Last week I bought my first GPS unit and I wanted to play with it. So I had heard people talk about geocaching, but I didn’t really understand what it was. So I visited Geocaching.com and read about the process. I searched and found a couple [...]

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09 April 2008 ~ 1 Comment

I went outside this weekend!

Not only did I go outside this weekend but I went to the mountain and went skiing! My mother in law has recently rediscovered her love of skiing. But she is lacking friends to do it with. So while I spent 10 years snowboarding I decided to accompany her on a trip to the mountain [...]

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