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From the yeah-yeah-I-know-long-time-no-blog-again department:
I *will* get the hang of this blog-more-than-once-a-week thing. I know. I’ll blame it on the clocks-roll-back thing. Yeah. I didn’t blog all this week ’cause… uh, ’cause I *lost* an hour! Yeah.
Yeah, that’s it.
OK, so when we last heard from our intrepid hero who doesn’t know how to sit down and […]

From the weekend-update department:
A number of incredibly normal things happened this weekend (and it’s not even over yet! How can I stand the excitement!). Let me use many more words than necessary to describe them all:
1) Books and Movies
This weekend I spent more on books than I did on movies. And I […]

From the I-love-dealerships department:
So, an update on the ol’ car situation: I take the car into the dealership’s garage this morning for replacement of the defective ball joint assembly under warranty. They call me back just now and tell me that the tie rod on that side is loose. This makes me wonder […]

From the I-love-dealerships department:
So about a week before I left for DARPA my car started to make funny noises. Er, funnier-than-normal noises, that is. It started with a mild clunk whenever I drove over a bump. That turned into a moderate clunk on the bumps accompanied by a squeak in the middle […]

From the itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny-blog-entry department:
Just a quick update, with the hope that a real, more interesting blog entry will find its way here soon.
#1: I’ve done a preliminary sort of the DARPA photos and gotten the grand total down to 318. That’s 1.6G, and there’s 1.8G of space left on my server. These two […]

From the where-the-hell-d’ja-go? department:
No, I’m not dead. I just haven’t blogged in awhile. Okay, *two weeks*. Even for me, that’s pretty bad. BUT! (you knew there was a but coming, right?) But, I’m back in town now and my fingers are itching to get back to da blogging.
And I have a monster collection […]