Hockey!!!1! This was really the only fight of the game last night, though. (The refs broke it up pretty quickly and penalized one player from each team—fighting is not cool in the modern NHL.) The game was pretty good. Pro hockey is faster-paced and more fluid than college hockey, and there are video screens, contests, [...]

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Friday: Relatively normal. The conference call and massive amounts of mail and spending about 6 person-hours of work for no results were not because anything was actually wrong. That all happened because some numbers were smaller than some people had predicted. So. . . yeah, it was all a tempest in a teapot. Heck. Saturday: [...]

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Wednesday: Work was reasonably normal. After work, Stephanie and I went to the Scottsdale Culinary Institute for dinner. We met Angel and Charles there, though they were a bit late because of traffic. No real problem. The place is basically a training kitchen/restaurant for the students at the Institute, so you get gourmet food for [...]

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Tuesday, always a fun day. There were relatively ordinary work things at first. Then we heard something that sounded really weird. Not bad, just unusual, but there’s no way we’ll get the full story until next week. Anyway, we also had a really odd problem later with a new test box. “Why won’t this apache [...]

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Monday! I didn’t have to go to work, which was nice. I bought a couple of bags of canned goods and dropped them off at the local food bank. Then I ate lunch and spent some time reading. Monster Hunters International isn’t great literature, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun, and there’s [...]

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Lots of stuff to catch up on. So: Friday was pretty normal at work, though there were a few last-minute things that had to be done, and there were only a couple of us in the office. Anyway, Stephanie had wanted to see my office for some time, so she came by at around 4:30pm. [...]

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Wednesday was full of pretty ordinary work things. No protesters or weirdness. But then when I got home, I tried to use Bluetooth on my phone, and it totally didn’t work. Spent at least ten minutes trying to figure it out and got nowhere. Then I tried to call the local Chinese takeout place, and [...]

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Monday had one problem: Two text messages from work had apparently gotten stuck somewhere, and they got delivered at 3:30am and 3:50am, over 24 hours late. This was really annoying since they came through with the “this is high priority, deal with this now” ringtone and woke me up for no reason. Monday itself was [...]

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Anyway. The $5 debit card fee that B of A is starting to charge has really annoyed a lot of people, hence the old cartoon. Friday didn’t really have all that much going on. The “Occupy Phoenix” protesters marched downtown that day at 4pm, and they went right by the building I was in. No [...]

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Lots of stuff going on. The picture is because Aaron said he was “quitting caffeine cold turkey”, and not quite succeeding. Tuesday: relatively normal at work, and there was trivia afterwards. Saw almost everybody (minus Nathan and Trevor) and heard all the stuff about what’s been going on. Stephanie’s apparently planning some sort of charity [...]

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