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Missy and I were outside watching it rain tonight when she noticed there was a frog “stuck” on the door. So I snapped some pictures so Eric could tell me what kind of frog it was.

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"Every man is, or wants to be, an idler," wrote the great Samuel Johnson in 1758. From Johnson to Ferris Bueller and the great age of Slackers, the appeal of lounging, loafing, goofing off, and vegging out has been huge -- always there, snoozing right behind the work ethic.

This week the NPR show On Point! has an excellent episode exploring slacking and the American work ethic. (note that it's audio)

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It might have been almost 100 degrees outside yesterday but Missy’s family came over for a little BBQ, board games, 3 hours of Civ4 by Thomas and some football. It was the first time we had a large amount of people over at our new house.

We really enjoyed it and have a few pictures here.

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*This is a purely technical geeky post, so you might want to skip it*

Thanks to the MSDN Subscription at work I was able to get my hands on Windows Vista Beta 2 and Office 2007 Beta 2. As soon as I downloaded them I threw them on a fairly beefy laptop ( 1.5 GHZ and 512 megs of ram and a Radeon 9000 Graphics Card) and have been playing with them for most of the day since we were fairly slow at work.

I really like the new interfaces and have no real complaints as of yet. I have a few snips (that’s a new built-in Vista tool, aka as screenshots) here. If you have any questions or want to see it live let me know by shooting me an email.

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Here is what America would be like if Al Gore was president!*

* This file is 10 Megs and will take a few minutes to download on most computers. You may want to right click the link and do a "save as..." in order to view it.

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Well last night on my way home my “Service Engine Soon” light came on in our 2001 Oldsmobile Alero. Not being an especially good car-self-fixer guy stuff like this worries me a little bit.

After doing some googling I found that I needed to find the OBD-II code was that was setting off the sensor in order to figure out how to solve the problem.

So first thing this morning I do a little looking around to see where I can get it checked and how much it is going to cost.

Car Dealership: $35
Jiffy Lube: $19.95
AutoZone: Free

So being not stupid I took my car to AutoZone and they were able to tell me that the error code I was getting was a P0440 and reset it for me.

Once I got back to work I was able to find out that a P0440 is the code for Evaporative Emission Control System Malfunction (or loose gas cap in English).

So Problem Solved and $0 spent!

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Yesterday Melissa and I went to her cousins High School graduation party. It was pretty nice to get to see everyone and I was able to grab a few pictures of the party here.

Congratulations Justin!

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Last night Missy, Kenny, Eric and I got together and went and saw the Da Vinci Code. I’ll have to say I don’t agree at all with the “critics” and thought it was one of the best movies that I have seen in a long time.

The question that I was wondering at the end of movie was: “Is Tom Hanks man enough to make out with Jesus’ Great-Great-Great-Grand Daughter”.

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Last night I had the opportunity to go to a Trivia night hosted by the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce and play on a team full of people from Linn State. We took second place in the game, only losing to a team full of Tax Lawyers by 3 points.

Here are a few easy questions from last night, see if you can get them without the help of Google:

1) Name the famous “Scott” who played the lead role in Quantum Leap.
2) What was the name of the whale in Pinocchio?
3) How many lines cross the filed on a regulation NFL field?
4) What famous rock group got its name from a run down Pizza Stop?
5) Within 2 years how long did the 100 year war last?
6) Name the only state with two federal reserve banks.

!UPDATE! Rick has sent me a picture of the trophy!

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Ok, not really but Berkeley is offering podcasts of some of their most popular classes, from History to Computer Sciences.

I have been listening to the following classes and am really enjoying them:

Histories of Europe and the World, 1450-Yesterday

Introduction to Computers

Operating Systems and Systems Programming

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A guy that I work with took this panoramic picture from atop the capitol, I figured it was pretty cool and you would like to see it.

Here is the link:
Panoramic.jpg (1.8MB)*

* This file is huge and can take anywhere from a couple of seconds to three years to open on your computer depending on the speed of your internet connection.

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Missy and I are watching her brother and sister today as a mother’s day gift for her Mom. It was pretty nice outside today so we decided to take them to the Runge Conservation Nature Center here in Jefferson City to look around and go on a little nature walk. We had a pretty good time except that if you have allergies tromping through the woods in the second week of May isn’t the smartest move you can make.

We have some pretty good pictures here.

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We have had some birds in our backyard for the last couple nights and I was actually able to get some pictures of them tonight. I am not an Animalologist but I believe they are geese. Does anyone know?

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Last night I made my first pilgrimage to the new Busch Stadium only to watch the Cardinals lose to the Rockies. It wasn’t an all bad experience though; we sat in the Coca-Cola Score Board Patio where you got all the Food and Beer you wanted. I also had an opportunity to heckle Brad Hawpe to such an extent that more than once he turned around to stare at us.

I didn’t get many good pictures but I did get a few.

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There is nothing more fun then waking up in your new house to a large bang. It is especially fun when you find out it was the bathroom mirror in the guest bathroom falling off the wall. It was just attached to the wall with construction adhesives, and I guess that didn’t work as well as planned.

Here are some pictures of the carnage.

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Here is another great Jonathan Coulton song that has one small fact about every US president. It is pretty well done.

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I guess today is El Gran Paro Americano and it looks like there are going to be a couple of protest at work today. I truly respect the hard work that Mexican-Americans do for this country but I think I enjoy Cinco de Mayo more.

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