Drinking and playing D&D (within walking distance of the hotel!) More later!

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Tonight was a night of preparation… getting packed, getting the dog over to our friend’s house, checking the itinerary… all of that work is done and we are ready for GenCon!  I must say I am very excited to have an opportunity to relax, game with friends, and potentially meet some gaming and nerd-culture legends. […]

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August 2, 2010: at long last, a day without drama at the office.  No major flare-ups, no urgent bugs, no insane meeting load… nothing.  I got a good solid swath of time to focus on debugging some new code that has been done and we found a handful of issues with it, so I actually […]

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We had a communication breakdown regarding our Amethyst game that we were going to play in today.  Apparently we got the time wrong and missed the session, arriving an hour before the gaming store closed.  That’s OK though, we made the most of the rest of our day.  I grilled some steaks that were just […]

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This weekend is our warmup to GenCon, we had a long (10 am to 9 pm) jag at our local gaming shop and more tomorrow!  I got to try out my Living Forgotten Realms character before he gets to go to the big dance at the convention, and we got a chance to play in […]

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This has been a constantly annoying and frustrating series of weeks at work.  Things never went quite right, and for some reason I have been internalizing the blame for the problems.  Technically, as one of my coworkers pointed out to me, it is the whole user story team that succeeds or fails when these things […]

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It’s annual review time again, so I’m busy getting my write-up put together.  Tasha and I had a very lazy evening tonight, opting to take a nap after work and then we hit up Chick-fil-A so I had enough energy to endure writing a boring document all night.  Sadly, I’m not much more exciting than […]

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This week has been going by at a furious pace.  Excessively annoying bugs, conflicting priorities, and some administrative stuff that must be done before I go to GenCon adds up to a lot of work related frustration for me.  The good news is that vacation is coming up, followed immediately by a trip back to […]

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Tonight was a hot one. They are doing construction on the studio where we train, so the air conditioner was off. One of our dojomates is testing for Shodan this weekend, so tonight was a workout focused on his test preparation. He is 15, getting ready for his first Shodan exam so it was fun […]

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Tonight we returned to the gym, where I ran a relatively slow mile (10:17) and then lifted some weights.  We only did a few machines, it was pretty full up there so PW and I went downstairs and played a little basketball.  It was nice to work out again, and I’m eager for the dojo […]

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