Christmas

Well, we are less than two weeks away from Christmas. There are already presents under our tree as my wife and I have wrapped the gifts we are giving to each other and that we already have for other family members. The stores are all stacked with green and red merchandise as they lull customers [...]

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A Little Older, A Little Wiser

I celebrated a birthday this month. As I get older I have started to notice more and more how youth oriented our culture is. It’s also interesting to hear people my age talk fondly about high school like those were their glory days.
I guess I’m an optimist, but I believe my best days are in [...]

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Hebrew, Hebrew, Hebrew…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me. Last week was a short hectic week thanks to a three day drill weekend. I have come to value every day of the week for studying Hebrew. I like to spread my studying out over the course of the week so that I don’t burn out. [...]

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A Birthday!

On Friday evening we celebrated my wife’s birthday! We had three couples from our Sunday School class over and we hung out in the courtyard of our complex. Our apartment is too small to put more than a few people in it at a time so we thought the courtyard would be the best place. [...]

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Fort Worth Botanic Gardens

My wife and I, along with some friends from college, visited the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens this afternoon. I had a good time and the weather was not nearly as hot as it has been. If you are ever in the Fort Worth area, I recommend a trip to the gardens. We specifically went to [...]

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HTPC (Update 1)

The last couple of weeks have seen some additions made to the Home Theater PC I built in the spring. One of the things that I wanted to add from the beginning, but held off on due to my budget, was a TV tuner. I got a good deal on the one I wanted at [...]

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A Walk Down (Xanga) Memory Lane

Before Twitter was all the rage, when Facebook was limited only to college students, before WordPress and Blogger became the tools of choice for sharing thoughts on the internet; there was Xanga. I started my first blog on Xanga and posted on it from 2004-with a few posts in 2008. I archived a lot of [...]

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Computer Cannibal

Over the years I have managed to accumulate a good bit of technology paraphernalia. It has gotten to the point that I rarely have to buy any kind of cable, because I have a box full of cables from old gadgets that have made their way to that great technology roundup in the sky.
A year [...]

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Opposites Attract

If you have been on Facebook at all recently, you have probably noticed that one of the popular quizzes that is sweeping across Facebook is a Myers-Briggs personality type quiz. I have taken the actual test several times for different things, and I have always had a consistent result. Here is my result from the [...]

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Buying a Car With Cash (Take 2)

It’s kinda weird when you stop and think about it. How many American’s actually own their cars? Most people slowly purchase ownership in their cars month after month as they make payments. By the time the car is paid for 3-6 years later, the car is worth a fraction of what they just finished paying [...]

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