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Today was Asher’s 3rd ‘Family Day.’ That’s the anniversary of the day Amy and I met Asher (and he, us). We intended to have a nice little party, but Ashy had a fever for the last few days and we had to cancel. He woke up without a fever this morning, though, so by tomorrow [...]

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Tru popped his first front tooth today. We talked about that, scrotums and pythons. You know, standard 6-year old stuff.

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Good tball game tonight. Took the following video with our new Flip. The first one is kinda pixelated because of the lame digital zoom. This camera requires that you zoom with your feet, not with the buttons, apparently. Non-zoomed video is awesome.
The second one is without zoom. Much nicer.

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Pukey 

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I visit Boise, ID roughly monthly for a couple of days. I used (grudgingly) get coffee at a local chain called Moxie Java. Recently, an Oregon-based chain called Dutch Bros. has entered the Boise market, and they’re rocking it.
Moxie seems to be primarily a walk-in joint, though they do good drive-thru business as well. Dutch [...]

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Warning: geekiness ahead.
I’ve been using OpenID (via MyOpenID) for a while now, but I just found a sweet little app that makes it even better. Yadis is a WordPress plugin that allows you to use your own WP blog domain as your OpenID URL. So, http://brendonconnelly.com is now my URL, rather than http://brendon.connelly.openid.com. I like [...]

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I was reading the current issue of Orion last night. One article in particular really rang some bells for me. The article is called Snap Into Action For The Climate. The comment thread over there is pretty interesting, too.
As I read it, the point of the essay is that climate change is happening faster [...]

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This’ll be the second year that Amy, Tru and Asher and I have done Relay For Life. If you don’t know, it’s a 24 hour relay around a track, in order to raise funds for The American Cancer Society.
Here’s the pitch: I’m trying to raise $100 by June 20, 2008. If you can help, please [...]

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