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I suck at blogging so I figure a quick blurb of text will be better than nothing.

I’m thankful for (in no particular order):

• Katie and her constant love, support, understanding, forgiveness, and encouragement. Her belief in me and how valuable and special I am is more than I ever thought of myself and has helped make me the confident, cheerful, and kind person I am today.
• Paisley for her smile, laughter, hugs, kisses, pain, crying, and growth. Watching her grow on a daily basis helps me realize how much we take for granted every day and how there is always room to do more, learn more, and be a better person.
• A job that provides a stable income for my family and allows me to grow professionally.
• A boss who cares about his employees and takes the suggestions we have to heart and really listens to our needs.
• Ruby for making my life as a programmer enjoyable.
• Rails for providing the easiest web development framework that just gets it right the first time.
• Friends for being there even when you haven’t talked to them in months.
• Online friends for getting you through the months when you never make time to talk to your old friends. For meeting up to eat sushi when you’re in town. For teaching you new skills, experiences, and helping you realize how important a random stranger can be to anyone.
• Google Reader, Twitter, and social networking in general for distracting me from whatever it is I’m supposed to be doing.
• My iPhone for making it so much easier to get distracted on the go.
• Vacations for forcing me to take a break.
• Impromptu trips for reminding me that family is always more important than that blog, website, side-job, or house project I wanted to work on right then.
• Shopping for making Katie look gorgeous no matter the time of year.
• Eating out for saving me from having to find energy to do dishes.
• Vocelli’s pizza for giving me an easy pre-planned meal (even if they always get it wrong) at least once a week.
• Katie’s baking for satisfying my sweet tooth and helping me keep my tummy she loves ;)
• Computers for providing me a way to make a living without having to be a “real man” (e.g.: cars, hunting, manual labor, hardware, and hammers).
• LOST for being the most amazing television show ever!
• Snowboarding (even just once a season) for reminding me about the beauty of the Earth we live on and giving me that rush that nothing else quite can.
• My savior and constant example, Jesus Christ, for reminding me to turn the other cheek, bite my tongue, forgive others, and be patient.
• Life for helping me to realize that there’s always a reason to keep going even when it seems like there’s no point to it at that specific moment in time.
• Being a girl and being able to express my emotions freely not caring about what others may think of me.
• Portland, OR, Japan, and San Francisco for giving me places I would one day like to live because of their community, beauty, and kind people.

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Katie has had a busy week.  She’s had to deal with a financial roller coaster from a publisher, creating several felt fruit projects, mentally prepare for turning 21, take care of a very emotionally uncertain 17-month old, and discovered that her font was actually published along with her layout.  We also got to take some time and do things together as a family including a fun walk around the neighborhood. Read the rest of this entry »

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Some of you may know that I’m a huge fan of LOST (thanks to Katie).  If you don’t, you do now.  I was sitting here trying to figure out a quick way to blog about the month of December as I know I don’t have time to blog as much as I should and I realized that numbers are pretty much a representation of how this month is for me.  So here comes the explanations:

• 2: The number of years Katie and I have been married (as of December 2, 2008).
• 12: The number of hours I am trying to work on average each day to earn some savings for possible unemployment come January 1, 2009.
• 15: Paisley’s age in months currently.
• 20: Katie’s age in years currently.
• 26: My age in years (as of yesterday).
• 75: The number of lightbulbs we replaced on our Candy Land tree in order to get one of the two missing strands of lights to work again this year.

I’ll take a quick moment to go over some of these in more details.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Thought I’d take a moment to post a really quick comparison between my last job (although quite a bit of this applies to a couple of my previous jobs), and the company I’m currently contracting with Integrum Technologies.

Please note that although this list is a large portion of the differences, it is by no means all-inclusive as I can think of a ton of other differences that haven’t even been touched within this list. This is merely the most essential things to mention.
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