Monthly Archives: July 2008

Wedding Reception Recon – Maxim’s: The Nancy Goldberg International Center

During lunch earlier this week, Liz and I had an appointment to check out Maxim’s, a potential spot for our wedding reception. The location is actually underground, and the entrance begins with a winding staircase. We learned that they’re currently re-upholstering everything… which is good news for us. The main foyer (at the base of

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Bleh

I’m swamped. And pooped. The past few days I’ve set my alarm to wake up early, and just end up turning it off and rolling out of bed around 7AM. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, but sadly… it’s been a little busy/hectic lately. I’ve got some interesting pics to post, just didn’t have enough

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Storm and Blackout

Around 10PM, Liz and I were finishing up dinner and washing dishes in the kitchen. As we were talking, the lights flickered once, and the entire apartment went dark. It’s been ages since I’ve had to scramble for matches and candles, but it was kind of fun in a way. We were forced to slow

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Logan Square Farmers Market

Liz and I have made it a habit to swing by the Logan Square Farmers Market on Sunday mornings. On the last trip, we picked up some fresh flowers, fresh eggs, and got a nice, early breakfast in at Lula’s to start off our Sunday. We may have to try these blueberries the next time

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Merlin Mann: Inbox Zero

Though I don’t follow his 43folders.com site religiously, I’m a big fan of Merlin Mann. In fact, his talk on Living with Data was a pretty eye-opening thing for me, and helped me look at my job (and my approach to work) in a totally different light. Below is a Google Talk that’s made the

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Saturday Managers Meeting

Today was a Saturday. And I was part of a 7 hour meeting for work. Above is what the conference room and table looked like, at the end of those 7 hours. To clarify: there were good and bad things about this. The bad things, obviously, was that it was both on a Saturday, and

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Grillable Dessert: Blueberry Crumble

In addition to grilling out for dinner tonight (Porterhouse steaks), Liz and I made Blueberry Crumble (a la the recipe from Steven Raichlen’s BBQ University. I made this once before, a long while ago for a Fourth of July cookout… way back in 2005. Can’t believe I’ve waited 3 years to try this recipe again,

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Hey… Nice Rack!

Jeff, installing the new server rack that just came in. We’re upgrading our local environment, particularly our local staging/testing environment. In order to have a true staging environment for us to test on, we needed to purchase a new set of servers to more accurately mirror our production environment. This has been talked about for

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Flash Games Trifecta: Totem Destroyer, Pandemic II and Fantastic Contraption

I’ve been meaning to post these games for the past week, but something else always came up. So now, I’m going to combine all three into one. I’ve lost a lot of time between each, so I hope you’ll lose a little as well. Totem Destroyer is a really fun game where you have to

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Remembering the Vending Machine Challenge™

Anthony and Cathie stopped by the office today, to say hello and to share their good news (they’re expecting, and about 4 months along). The pic (above) is old, as I didn’t have my camera on me at the time. It was great seeing them, and catching up a bit. After all the changes in

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