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Today the new camera, lens, and flash were delivered. I had them shipped two-day delivery via FedEx and got to unwrap them and unpack the items this evening. The very first thing I did was put the new 17-40mm lens on the 5D and took a test picture of the wall in the hallway. This [...]

Today I worked from home – mainly because I was up so late for work stuff last night Carole let me sleep in and work from home. I met Jen for lunch today at Umezonos.  We both ordered Yakisoba but I also ordered a couple of eel nigiri.  What’s the point of going to a [...]

It was really dreary and cold and rainy out today.  At Scott’s insistence, I installed Google Talk.  I like it a lot.  I wish that it would integrate with AIM contacts so I wouldn’t have to run multiple things.  I know trillian can talk to them all but I prefer the Google Talk client itself. [...]

Today I was thinking about buying the Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens and selling my 28-135mm.  I checked eBay to find out the going prices on the 28-135′s and they were pretty good. While I was doing this research I also noticed that Canon released a set of rebates just the past weekend.  If, in theory, [...]

As my 2002 Explorer gets more miles on it, I’ve been thinking that it may be time soon to replace it with something else.  So I spent a lot of time today doing research on cars. Jen and I went running on the Silver Comet trail.  It was really nice weather today.  After we concluded [...]

Jennifer was in a super fantastic mood this morning. I think it was the coffee. We drove over to Katie’s house to do some yard work. I trimmed the tree in the front using my tree-trimming skills I picked up from working summers with Craig as tree trimmers. Jen planted bulbs in the front. Chris [...]

As I left for work this morning I downed one of those ‘5-hour energy‘ drinks that Larry was going on and on about. It made me feel a little funny. Throughout the morning my tongue felt a bit numb and my stomach felt weird. I don’t think you’re supposed to drink that on an empty [...]

I decided that we would fly up to New England this coming weekend.  Reports indicate that the fall colors this season are awesome.  The weather forecast for this weekend is sunny.  It all looks good.  We’re going to Manchester, NH. I finalized the arrangements.  I booked a car reservation, hotel reservation (Hilton Garden Inn), and [...]

I finally got the rest of my login sessions defined in SecureCRT.  Now my connect dialog has a deep hierarchy of all sorts of different servers to login to – I’m pretty proud of the setup.  I also downloaded and installed Vim 7 – a binary for this was just released for HPUX and I [...]

Originally we planned on going to the gym and/or the Silver Comet Trail this morning. Jen wanted to sleep in and relax so we did that instead. I did some housekeeping work on the computer and then we had some breakfast. I helped Jen do laundry and tidy up a bit. Jen wanted to go [...]