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About this time last week, I grudgingly admitted that this year’s NaNoWriMo attempt was again going to end in failure.  Disappointing as this is for me, I had a ready-made list of reasons why this year’s endeavor was not going to work. No planning time.  I spent most of the spare moments in the month [...]

Ah, I said I’d be out for a bit, right?  Truth be told, the last week was pretty crazy from the start.  There was a lot to do and a week to do it.  Between going through old stuff and more or less finalizing things for our home, it was a considerable amount to do [...]

I’ve spent some time getting used to big cities.  For nearly ten years, I’ve lived in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Seattle and D.C.  Now none of those cities are like Chicago or New York, but they are a far cry from the small town of around 4,000 I grew up in (and actually, we lived outside of [...]

Short post today, but the truck arrived, the stuff unloaded (all there from what we can tell), and unpacking has begun. Not only that, teh inter-tubes are working at Chez Boerger.  A respectable three Mg down and 512k back up (can’t really help that last number–unless I wanted to spend money I don’t have to [...]

Yankees won last night for another championship.  I’m less than excited about this.  This does two things that are not a positive trend for baseball.  First of all, it gets A-Rod a ring.  You remember him, the guy who along with Scott Boras decided to make baseball a game of haves and have nots.  Not [...]

I had spent some time thinking about what it would be like to move back to the Midwest, but I never really spent that much time even discussing about what I would miss about D.C.  What it boils down to me is the people.  As far as the area is concerned, there’s more about it [...]