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Hey, Seriously

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Time has just been flying by! Work has been awesomely busy, keeping my brain cranking and me on my toes. My nights have been equally busy, trying to get some projects off the ground with some success imminent. The wife and the dog are doing well… The wife is trying to get some of her own projects off the ground and the dog is finally learning to pee and shit in the right spot (not on the bed), among other things of course.

Anyway, work is pretty interesting staring at code pretty much all day, 5 days a week. I feel much more confident in my work and I think I have definitely tuned my development skills and speed. I used to beat around the bush and burn myself out, but I learned that I just need to jump in, get it done, and do it right without letting my old tendencies come back in to play. It is pretty cool because training myself to work this way has helped me start and finish some of my own projects.

One of the projects I designed from concept to implementation (I will post more about it once it is out) has an iPhone application being developed to work around my web service. The application will be ported to other phones based on the success of the first round of the application. Hit or miss, it is a step in the direction of where I want my development company to move towards to hopefully get my piece of the pie.

That is it for now, check back soon!

Hey There, I’m Still Here!

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Little BearIt has been one hell of a busy year so far, work is great, so busy! Life is good, Cindy and I are doing well. One thing keeping us busy at home is our puppy, Little Bear, we got him at the beginning of the year, but it feels like we have had him for years. He is an ACA Registered Pomeranian and was born 10/18/2009 and is the cutest pup I have ever known! ;)

Anywho, got work to do.

Fresh and Easy – Oh it is!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

So I have been hearing tons of commercials for Fresh and Easy and have been wanting to go for a while now. Well today I took it upon myself to go and have a look for myself what this store is about. I have to say that I really like the pre-packaged, just warm to eat deal they have with a lot of their food, as well as the vast selection of different foods. It is like bachelor heaven, or lazy guy does not want to cook dinner heaven. Me being the lazy guy of course…

Anyway so I purchased some random things I would like, such as Sweet & Sour Chicken with Rice, Fried Chicken Strips and others. The average cost per meal is between $3 and $4, which beats the hell out of my $10 lunch at Main Street Cafe (even though I love that Almond Chicken Wrap). So tomorrow I will be doing a taste-test on the Sweet & Sour Chicken and reporting back my experience. Oh and since it is a controlled portion, what you see is what you get, it is probably better for you because I could go and get a rice bowl from Flame Broiler which baseline has higher, worse for you, nutrition facts and add on top of that a shit load more sodium because I love their secret sauce.

So I am pretty excited to try this out. If it is good, I am sure I will be stocking up on this food for lunch, price-point wise it is half the cost of my normal lunch everyday, when I go out.

UPDATE (01-27-2010 9:58PM): I did not get a chance to try out the Sweet & Sour Chicken dish because we opted for trying out the hamburger meat with bacon bits and cheese inlaid. I have to say the color was a bit disturbing, a tinge of orange before cooking and a little yellow looking after cooking, but it was pretty good. I am shooting for tomorrow to try the chicken.

UPDATE (01-29-2010 3:38PM): So last night I was able to eat the dish and I think it was pretty good. There is actually a lean cuisine of the same name, and it is pretty much the same thing, but a this one from Fresh and Easy has a much better portion size; meaning I do not have to eat anything else and basically waste the whole point of eating the lean cuisine. I am sure I will be going back to try out their other meals.

Happy (Late) New Year!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I was blessed with a fever for 3 days in a row, starting last Wednesday, so my New Year partying consisted of sleeping. I am glad that being sick did not go past a fever and bronchial cough, you know, no flu, threw up enough after partying too hard on my wedding day. ;) As of last night the fever finally passed after a grip of Tylenol, lots of water, and cough syrup. I am glad Cindy was here though, she took care of me like crazy, so that is awesome! Unfortunately, I missed out on a great deal of fun, so I heard. I guess I will just have to make up for it next time.

Now I have to finish up some work that needed to be done a week ago…

Christmas was fun, it always is!

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

It was a great time this year, the family got together as usual and we partied. There was a feast on breakfast items such as: waffles, pancakes, sausage, bacon, corn-beef hash, and much more! Doing a brunch became a tradition of ours like 6 or 7 years ago, and we have never considered looking back. There was some drinking here and there, a couple shots taken and quite a few presents exchanged.

Family time is always a good time. Have a great New Year!