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Nick has done a very bad thing. He bought me Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Xbox 360 as a late birthday present. After the stress of this last week, studying for (and passing) the Microsoft 70-237 and 70-238 exams (two-thirds of the Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Enterprise Messaging certification; I passed 70-236, the third, back ...

E. Gary Gygax died yesterday at the age of 69. They say that anything you do more than once is tradition. I guess that mine is to offer the words written by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, as sung by Annie Lennox, at the end of The Return of the King: Lay down your sweet and weary head Night is falling; you’ve come to journey's ...

It's been a while since I've blogged much. There's been a few reasons for that, but I just finished the lastest one last night. Yes, that's right, our Christmas houseguest and I have been working back through Halo and Halo 2 in Cooperative mode in preparation for Halo 3. Last night, Chris and I finished Halo 3. WOW! Awesome game, great storyline. ...

There is a blanket of dead leaves over my grass. There seem to be dead dry leaves everywhere around my house. It took quite some time to clean them out of the carport today. There are lots and lots of spiders and their little egg sacs everywhere too. I cleaned off the cobwebs and what spiders and eggs I could find while cleaning up today. I spent ...

We have had the first game since January when Alaric bought it with his Christmas money. We finally got a computer for the kids up and running in the library a few months ago. I got it put on a table in May and so we have a computer for the kids to use that is out where I can see what all they are doing on it. Plus we have 2 ...

Today was a day of mileposts. It was my first working day of 2006. Because Paul and I got our various projects wrapped up before vacation, I went into the 3Sharp offices and spent a good part of my day doing something I've never done before -- pack up my office. No, we're not moving locations, and yes, I'm still with 3Sharp. However, we're ...

I've been banging away on a presentation I have to give for work on Friday and have been occasionally checking in on the PyraMOO (online chat for the Pyramid online magazine from Steve Jackson Games) as I wait for various processes to complete. At one point, somebody wistfully remarked that it would be neat if Ken Hite and R. Sean Borgstrom could ...