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Thursday, June 26, 2008
In Lincoln
Posted by Troy @ 8:31 AM
Jantina and I drove to Lincoln last Thursday for my test on Friday (I passed!) and summer camp on Saturday. Weather was awesome and I had a great time! I was originally planning on heading back this weekend, but I have some work meetings in Bloomington and Chicago, and with things slowing down for July 4th (lots of people taking vacations) it made sense to stay here for a few weeks rather than going back and forth. We are excited!
We've been making the most of our time back.
I've been able to workout with the rest of the karate class on Tuesday and Thursday
David came over for dinner earlier this week, we played some San Juan afterward.
I saw Brett last night, we ate an original "The Mill" schnitzel for dinner from Hallie's downtown and then played some Guitar Hero.
Heading on a triple-date with Emilie-Les, Travis-Grace, Jantina and I tomorrow to go see "WALL-E."
I'm hoping to hang at Noir sometime too.
I made a small change to fuzzycouch.com. I added an icon for iPhone users adding fuzzycouch to their home screen and also redirect iPhone users to the RSS feed for easier readability and it keeps things fast. Let me know what you think!
Update: Do you like 1) this better than 2) this on the iPhone?
New places to eat:
Nami, Minneapolis
Hallie's, Lincoln
I'm also recently addicted to Starbucks Double Shot on Ice (decaf)
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Out of the house
Posted by guido @ 1:17 AM This afternoon -- since I had the day off -- we went to see "Kung Fu Panda" with friends Wes and Kacey. I really enjoyed the movie and how much Jack Black came though in his character. The animation was great, most of the character design was interesting. Some of the celebrity voices seemed underused, but that was just something I noticed ... not necessarily something bad. We all went to the Magic Kitchen for Thai food and I seriously stuffed myself. Yesterday was Julie's birthday. We went out for sushi after Ultimate (where we had a great turnout with lots of new players). Julie and I picked some really good sushi rolls. Then we picked up a birthday cake this evening. I ate a piece even though I was still very stuffed. I added a little snipped of code from MyBlogLog over on the bottom of the right column here on fuzzycouch.com a little bit ago. I'm not sure if it'll end up being useful enough to keep, but I thought I'd try it out. After seeing lincolninjacksonville.com, I had another group ask me, yesterday, to design a site for them. I'll be sketching something out post-haste.
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Monday, June 02, 2008
Guest Emilie
Posted by Troy @ 1:43 PM Emilie came to visit us this week, we had a blast! She helped me train in the mornings; we worked out early and she went back to bed as I went to work. We went over Kata, Tai Ho Jitsu, and self-defense. I have a test coming up on June 20, so I've been preparing for that. 
We also played Catan. She beat me her very first time playing, I don't think she could have had a better hand!
Throughout the week she also hit a fair number of malls, I'm thinking of at least four, but she only bought one top that was on sale, so that is pretty good (the rest went on her birthday list).
We ate at home, but also dinned out quite a bit. We went out for sushi, aged-steak, and hit several local dives throughout the week. We made our way to St. Paul on Saturday had brunch and visited with Matt, Mandy and Lucas. After we ate, we spent some time at the zoo as a group, that was fun (the weather was gorgeous).
She's on her way back to Illinois on the train now. I didn't think they would make it, they left here pretty late, but Jantina reports that she is safely on her way home. We had a great time.
New places to eat:Trotter's
Origami
Manny's
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Theater in series
Posted by guido @ 8:30 PM
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Black Box
Posted by Troy @ 11:00 AM I'm working the Black Box a.k.a. Sun Modular Datacenter event in Minneapolis today and tomorrow. Today I gave tours and tomorrow I'm speaking on a variety of topics: Identity, VDI, and other software offerings.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Going downtown
Posted by guido @ 12:34 AM Julie and I were about to head out the door, heading for Springfield to have some brunch when Cordova called asking for a ride. We stopped by and picked up Cordova and Ash, dropped them off in Springfield and headed downtown to Cafe Brio.We had some trouble finding a parking place thanks to the Capitol Arts Fair going on. We would have like to go to that, too, if we'd have had more time. Cafe Brio was good, though the coffee was week. I had the Eggs Oscar and Julie had the french toast with pecans and blueberry syrup. I got stuffed ... not great for just before my regular Sunday Ultimate pickup game.
The weather was pretty perfect and we had a decent turnout at Ultimate. We played a round of Ultimate Showdown before heading home. We gave Cordova and Ash a ride back to Jacksonville.
Julie and I watched "Live Free or Die Hard." Josh loaned me his mower for tomorrow since I couldn't get mine running this week. Mowing is on my to do list for tomorrow.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Secure360°
Posted by Troy @ 6:32 AM Working another trade show this week, this time it is local though. I'll be at the St. Paul River Centre all-day Tuesday. It can make for a long day, but it is fun.We watched a few movies this weekend, Iron Man was better than I expected, we both liked it. Cloverfield was fun too. I also rented Rainbow Six Vegas 2, I think all developers should do this for sequels; when I started a new game, it recognized that I played the first one, so it gave me rank recognition and unlocked some equipment right away. That whole "welcome back" package was appreciated.I've also been working out every morning, 5:30 AM most days. Its been great, but I've noticed that I've been gaining weight since starting that, even though I'm not over eating ... I have been drinking a lot more water though.New places to eat: French Meadow Cafe
Kabobi
Good Earth
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Blessings on State
Posted by guido @ 11:49 PM There's a new bed and breakfast right around the corner from our house. Check it out at blessingsonstate.com. It looks pretty nice. I'm slowly getting over the virus that gave me a fever of 103.4 on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Coming and going
Posted by guido @ 10:57 PM Today is a long-time coworker Steve Warmowski's last day. Julie helped me make some chili for a newsroom potluck we're having for lunch. That reminds me -- I need to check on it. ... It's doing OK, but taking longer for the beans to soften than expected. Steve is staying in town, so maybe I'll still see him a fair amount. We also have a new reporter starting soon. I hear she found an apartment, so she should be here soon. I started working on a new Web site the other night and it was fairly frustrating. I lost track of time and stayed up way too late. Still lots to do on it. We have an opening reception for our May artist at the gallery this Friday. That means we had a show come down this week and a show going up. I'm also planning to go to an Ultimate tournament Saturday in Carbondale. That's a long drive after working all day Friday. It's going to be rough, I think. I went to see the doctor about my shoulder on Monday. He wants to try even more rehab and is less gung-ho about surgery. My shoulder is still really weak, though. Some sort of $700 computer went out on the car, but it's under warranty. I did have to nearly spend that much on tires, though ... ug.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Vanderslice
Posted by guido @ 11:34 AM Julie and I drove down to St. Louis Wednesday to see John Vanderslice play at the Billiken Club at St. Louis University. The concert was great. I bought a copy of his latest CD, though somehow I knew almost all the songs on it, I hadn't bought a copy yet ... and he signed it for me.
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Heroes Happen
Posted by Troy @ 8:07 AM Busy week coming up; I'll be in Des Moines for a marketing event (and seeing Toni, Christopher & their twins), then swinging through Illinois for a meeting in Itasca the following week. While in Illinois, I'll be able to catch karate class a few times and Jantina gets to help Kallie with her prom primping!My XBOX "red-ringed" but I just got it back from repair (took about a month). I've been playing the new Halo 3 maps; the Heroic map pack is now free, and the Legendary map pack (has a remake of "sidewinder"!) is 800 points.We've been watching the new season of Battlestar Galactica through Sci-Fi rewind! That was the biggest temptation for upgrading cable, but now we just hook the laptop up to the TV and watch it a day late ;)
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