tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39009762044935794982024-09-14T03:33:33.668-05:00Just like your spoon, but with way more yard in it!Benjamin P Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3900976204493579498.post-90252409531621713662008-12-05T10:57:00.000-05:002008-12-05T10:58:50.770-05:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!Thank you for always being supportive and putting up with me ;-). I love you.

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Its official. The first two weeks in December will be the beginning of my time on a new project for work which will take me to California off and on for the next few months.CrazyI will be part of an ongoing project to provide Agile mentoring and coaching to a large health care company's software development teams. I will be traveling back and forth between STL and the greater San Francisco Bay

Benjamin P Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3900976204493579498.post-38781958241903629672008-11-04T22:22:00.002-05:002008-11-04T22:27:49.099-05:00

On my way home tonight I got in an accident.Well, it might be more appropriate to say that an accident got me.OR, it might be more accurate to say that a college student ran a red light and smacked the front drivers side of my car with the back passenger side of his car.yeah, that one is the best (and worst).Don't worry, I appear to be as healthy and crazy a I always was ... but poor Sigmund the

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The more you need to post, and the more you have to post, but the less you want to sit down and post. :-/ ;-)Here is a long needed update going back to the beginning of October:Josh's WeddingFrom josh-weddingSince most everyone who reads this was there, I will leave out the details and mainly say that Em and I both had a blast. Its always great seeing the old gang together and we will

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I enjoy sports and I enjoy statistics about sports but I have never really gotten into Fantasy Sports. The idea always appealed to me but I guess I always felt like I didn't know enough about enough of the players and games to make good choices.My only attempt until recently was back in college when some friends from high school got me into a free NFL fantasy league. After trying my best during

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Its been a roller coaster couple weeks.Two weeks ago Em's grandfather passed away. It has been a hard time since then but luckily Em's family was able to all be together and through telling some crazy stories and finding tons of old photos were able to celebrate Peter's life instead of just mourning his death.............On some more cheerful notes, Em and I were able to spend a lot of time with

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I have posted three entries on my tech blog in the past few weeks. Check them out here.

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I have had this stuck in my head ALL night. Hopefully, if I watch it enough times it will go away ... that or make me go nuts ... lets hope for the first one.Ludo - "Love Me Dead"(youtube video)

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I also posted on my food blog(wouldn't it be great if I could get myself to consistently do this instead of in big spurts? ;-) )

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Em has been bugging me for a week or so now to post ..... ;-)Since the last post we have been keeping busy.On the bad side, several members of both of our families have had medical issues in the past few weeks. As it stands right now everyone is ok or doing better which is a good thing.Even Jolie wasn't able to get past the last few weeks without seeing a doctor ....she has had three seperate "

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Last night Em and I took in the Cards game with some of the best seats I have ever had for a professional sports match. A relative of Em's owns his own small company and occasionally gets box seats for people at work and clients. Somehow, I never got the exact story, he won through a raffle luxury box seats for last nights game on short notice and invited Em and I along with a couple other

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First the "less" exciting stuff ....This past week Em took it upon herself to paint our office "Harvest Gold" and it looks great. The racing flags (it was a nursery before) and offwhite color just weren't doing it for us. Now the place looks great in a golden color that complements the furniture and looks very nice (great job babe).original paint jobprimednew color making the windows and the

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First the good news ... I fixed our doorbell. When we moved in we noticed that the doorbell button was cracked and so one of our first weekend in the new place I went out and bought a new button. Simple thing with two mounting screws and two screws to tighten the wires around. Not even two minutes of work and the things were switched. Great!Or so I thought.Our doorbell (the actual "bell" part

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The party was a success with 35+ family and friends stopping by and enjoying a burger/hotdog and a drink while getting to see the new house. More people than we expected were able to make it and we appreciated everyone stopping by. It was a nice time being able to throw a party like that in our own home with a good amount of space. When it wasn't raining we even got in a few games of cornhole

Benjamin P Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3900976204493579498.post-50607326166137228482008-07-07T21:20:00.003-05:002008-07-07T21:32:33.602-05:00

Not too much is going on.Big party this weekend at our house (anyone who reads this and wants to come is invited). Should be a nice time with friends and family and food. BYOB but we will have some, plus hot dogs, burgers, snacks, soda, cornhole, music, etcBrined and stuff pork chops tonight .... mmm mmm good.Been doing a lot of yard work this past week(end). Weed-B-Gone works wonders but the

Benjamin P Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3900976204493579498.post-24444359483934149172008-06-29T20:47:00.000-05:002008-06-29T20:49:14.568-05:00

Photos At A Random IntervalDaylilly in front of our new houseMy intention is to see if I can capture a photo of all of the letters of the alphabet,in order, and each from a different place/style/etc. The photos may not always be literal "letters" but something that is associated with the letter.

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Photos At A Random IntervalCheeks on Madison, my cousin's daughter, being held by EmMy intention is to see if I can capture a photo of all of the letters of the alphabet,in order, and each from a different place/style/etc. The photos may not always be literal "letters" but something that is associated with the letter.

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It seems like 80% of my posts start with me saying something about being busy.Well, lets continue the trend.Its been a busy week[end].This past week our National Sex Offender Registry project started back up after a new statement of work was signed so we have been hard at work implementing a couple of additional features to our original application. Its nice to be moving forward with this again

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With the help of friends and family, yesterday, Em and I officially moved all of our stuff from our apt to our new house. :-DFirstly, a huge thank you to everyone who helped. Everything went much smoother and faster than I had anticipated.That being said, the move went well. The only small hiccups were when we found that a piece of furniture we were picking up from Em's grandparents wouldn't

Benjamin P Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3900976204493579498.post-75250378811545570592008-06-18T09:42:00.002-05:002008-06-18T09:43:15.935-05:00

Its today until ~1pm CST.Get out there and start downloading if you haven't already!

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Its been a busy few days with the new house. We closed last Thursday and have spent good parts of each day over at the house cleaning/fixing/gardening/packing/unpacking/etc. Em has been a huge help in moving tons of the smaller stuff over there the past few days and will be there most of the week as delivery people start bringing stuff. Empty dining room from the living room and kitchen minus

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Yep ... its official. Em and I are the proud owners of a mortgage! Err... I mean a new house!We met up for our closing this morning (I took the day off) and after signing and initially what seemed like a mountain of paperwork (more like ~40 pages) we were officially the owners of a mortgage (we also had to run to our bank and get a cashiers check for by far the largest amount I have ever paid

Benjamin P Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089639187841179363noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3900976204493579498.post-22733598733738718862008-06-11T09:05:00.003-05:002008-06-11T09:24:21.367-05:00

Monday we had our final walkthrough and I am happy to report that everything looked good. Our only concern is if the current owners will be out in time. When we walked through they still had the majority of their stuff there (much of it packed in boxes, but still in every room). Hopefully they took off yesterday and/or today and moved it all ... but we shall see. We close in the morning on

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The following are three random videos I took in the past couple weeks (and one from last year) and happened to load to Google Video. Sorry if the page loads slow, I have know idea what putting 4 video links on the same page will do.The first is of a curious baby orangutan who picks his nose and ....Sorry its tilted, I was too lazy to figure out how to rotate it.The second is of the same baby

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Photos At A Random IntervalBear at the St. Louis ZooMy intention is to see if I can capture a photo of all of the letters of the alphabet,in order, and each from a different place/style/etc. The photos may not always be literal "letters" but something that is associated with the letter. This is the first of those.Other PAARI may have nothing to do with this.

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