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It feels kinda strange being in a big house and having it all to myself. Aileen and Zoe left yesterday to go to Manila and I’ll be following them this coming Sunday. In the meantime, I’ve got all this free time and I don’t know what to do with it. I’m sure I’ll find something […]

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I found a really good article about Filipino Food while looking for pictures of balut and soup number five to gross out my co-workers: Filipino Food Filipino Food Kainan na… A Matter of Taste By Matthew Sutherland A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson I […]

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With my gaming interest revived by new Gameboy Advance. I started thinking about all the games I used to play way back when. Remember King’s Quest and Quest For Glory? Those awesome adventure games from Sierra? Apparently, they’re being remade by a fan group called Tierra Entertainment Website. Worth checking out… with free downloads as […]

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Winter is finally here. Today marks the first snowstorm of the season. As I was driving to work today, I realized that snow is really beautiful in its own way. If only it could just be pretty for a while then melt away, everything would be so good. The problem really start to happen when […]

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Traditionally, Black Friday is a day in the holy week where Christ died on the cross. In the US though, Black Friday is more commonly known as the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is commonly the craziest shopping day of the year. Aileen had to go to work that day, so I decided to try to […]

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Zoe surprised me the other day by just suddenly blurting out the pledge of allegiance (you know “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America….”) in its complete entirety . Turns out that they’ve been teaching that at day care for a while now. It just brings it home for me […]

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The past 2-3 weeks, I have been in semi-single-dad mode, which needless to say has been quite tiring. It always gets slike this when Aileen is doing her house rotation. It’s a lot more tiring for her though, with 12-13 hour days being the norm. Thankfully, this is finishing up in a couple of weeks […]

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I just did a 16 hour day last Friday to get all the kinks out in our software. Turns out that the Robot, still has a few flaws in its shell program. I spent a few hours yesterday confirming that. It would be all right if it was just a minor problem, but this particular […]

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I got 27 correct on the Minipops quiz! This was such a great distraction from the Release 6.2 deadline that’s due tomorrow. You know how people say that they need a beer after a bad day at work? I think I need a truckload of beer after the past few months under this deadline. I’m […]

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I feel so old. The other day, I was listening to what has become my afternoon drivetime ritual – All Things Considered on National Public Radio and realized that I was listening to the news – and actually cared about it. I remember back in high school when my dad would pick me up from […]

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