Blog Master G

Not working certainly has a way of keeping one busy. I’ve found that getting out of the house and doing stuff really helps me focus and feel motivated, rather than sitting around, aimlessly surfing the Web or watching movies to pass the time. Today I’ve accomplished quite a bit: Took the dogs to romp around […]

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As I’ve written several times in the past, I feel strongly about fighting Big Tobacco. I’ve lost two family members in the past two years to cancers caused by smoking. The Voices Against Tobacco site is one of the many ways you can make your voice heard. Tobacco affects us all; it kills nearly half […]

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Saturday was an East Bay triple header. No, the A’s aren’t playing in November. Jen and I had three parties to attend around the East Bay, one of which was my awesome great aunt Nora’s 85th birthday party. We met up with my Dad there and got to see an uncle, an aunt, a cousin, […]

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This morning I woke up to 65 email notifications of comment spam. Grrr. I have a previous version of MT-Blacklist installed, so along with updating to the latest version (1.61-beta), I’m also going to keep an eye on the Comment Spam Clearinghouse for the latest version of the MT-Blacklist. Additionally, I’ve changed my blog configuration […]

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Greetings from the 14th floor of the Lee Hecht Harrison building in San Francisco. Today is day one of my two-day career workshop. I’m currently on a lunch break and being the obsessive blogger that I am, thought I’d take this opportunity at one of the computers in the lab to write a post about […]

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Did you remember to vote yesterday? I sure hope so. I haven’t seen the numbers, but I would guess that due to the lack of an action hero running for any public office, the number of people who turned out to vote yesterday wasn’t as high as the number who voted last month. The greatest […]

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Thanks to Dave and Beerzie Boy for solving the mystery of yesterday’s City Sewer Monster. Indeed, it does appear to be a Jerusalem Cricket or “potato bug.” Of course, it’s more exciting to think that it was a sewer monster. Still, it makes a good story.

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4:30am: Wake up. Stumble down hallway to the loo. Use loo. Proceed to sink. Start to wash hands. Oh shit! Jump back. Giant sewer monster is sitting there, staring back at me. What the hell is that thing? It’s not a spider, I don’t think. But it’s as big as a tarantula. It’s not a […]

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As of today, Jen and I have been married 100 days. It really doesn’t seem like it. Time really flies when you’re having fun. We celebrated tonight with a delicious dinner at Tommy’s in the Richmond, followed by a movie. Here’s to my beautiful wife and the next 100 days and 100 years.

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