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Today I opened another business venture, this time to help businesses make their websites work better. "Work better" covers a lot of ground, sure. But after toying with the idea for over a year it seems like a good time to put my technical knowledge
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I'm a sentimental sonuvabitch, and love listening to late fifties/early sixties music, pretending it was 1962 and wondering why there aren't any DJ's like Wolfman Jack any more. So, tonight the setting was perfect. All it needed was Tara sitting
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A week later, I'm sitting at a different desk now, in my own 1 bedroom apartment. Bizarrely, after driving all over the surrounding cities looking at cheap apartments I ended up 100 yards from my hotel. The first week of work was the same as any first
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I'm here, sitting in my room on Sherman and DeSoto. As the other Arquette sister says in Pulp Fiction, this is trippy. The drive was unreal. It took, as the maps said it would, 3 days of hard driving. Day 1 I didn't leave until 9:30, so didn't
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A day in Monterey and Carmel today. This morning we went whale watching and got close to a couple of 80ft blue whales and some humpack whales. Pretty cool and the weather was perfect - calm and 75f. We then drove 17 mile drive to Carmel via Pebble Beach
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Really it's Day 16 to me, but strictly speaking it is after midnight, so very early on the 27th. I'm in the air now, flying with Tara on our 5 day vacation to California. The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of working mornings for StomperNet
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The in-laws arrived for a 4 week stay on Thursday, Friday was heads down for a big (but internal) launch at StomperNet and Saturday was Tara's 40th birthday! The worlds largest dumpster (30 yards/5 tons) was also delivered in the morning as a special
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Ok, that's done. Booked . One less (large and looming) thing to think about. Priceline did the deed at about 2/3 price of the public rate.
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I ache this morning. Over the weekend I worked 20 hours in our bathroom, taking out everything - a wall, all sheetrock, a tiled shower, cabinets, sinks, mirrors and lights. Then I did some studwork, re-wired the lights and outlets and got it ready for
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"Let's go to lunch", Tara says, "and we'll pop into Lowes and pick up a few things." Quizno's was good, then came Lowes. We need some more cement board for the shower and floor in master bathroom, and we need to "order
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Remember this : door frames are not made to be easily removable. Removing all the sheetrock in bathroom 1 meant removing the door frame - which is coated in a finish that we dont have, so is effectively irreplaceable. Usually a 280lb guy and a crowbar
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I posted about our upcoming adventure on a few car/tiki forums today, it was interesting to read the responses. Overall, the responses were very positive and I heard some great ideas for places to live. However, some people sound like they would find
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When Tara and I moved to Atlanta in January 1998 with our two very young daughters it was a big deal I guess, but I remember it being a lot of fun too. I had sold my small software company to one in Atlanta and that made the whole trip financially a great
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