Category: another day in the life

  • Skal! Cheers! Prost! Whatever!

    Quick! Download this app and take pics! New Year’s fun for all AND you can drive afterwards!! Happy New Year, world! UPDATE: Argh! All of the instructions are in Swedish! Jösses!

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  • Westminster Centennial

    We just spent four days in Colorado visiting family and attending the Westminster, CO (Chuck’s hometown) Centennial kick-off event. It was a pretty low-key affair, with a very small town feel to it (though with a population of over 100,000 people it’s not all that small anymore – when Chuck’s family moved there, it had a…

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  • 8 years

    Tomorrow is Chuck and my eighth wedding anniversary. It feels most of the time now like we have always been together. Eight years ago I was working at USC, hating my job. I had just bought a house and felt broke and overwhelmed by the responsibility. Chuck came into my life and everything changed. He…

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  • Thankful

    It’s Thanksgiving and that marks the start of the holiday season (in my mind anyway – a lot of stores seem to think the holiday season starts on Halloween. Whatever.). And it’s also the time when we are all supposed to take some time and be thankful for, well, whatever you want to be thankful…

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  • The mysteries of data usage

    A few months ago, AT&T was the first mobile carrier to switch to tiered data usage plans, and now the other big behemoth, Verizon, is following suit. AT&T charges $15/month for 200MB of data, or $25 for 2GB (if you were an original iPhone user they grandfathered in the $30/month for unlimited data). We tracked…

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  • Time has this way of getting away from me…

    Wow, I just looked at the last blog posting and noticed it’s been almost a month since I’ve written anything! Bad, bad blogger! There’s no good excuse except, well, life has just intervened and I haven’t taken the time to document it. In my defense, we’ve been working a lot during the week and playing…

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