tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56417482012-01-26T01:20:35.472-06:00Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06601798364018430166noreply@blogger.comBlogger2861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641748.post-72787093961066344482012-01-26T01:01:00.002-06:002012-01-26T01:20:35.485-06:00

This morning a man was shot and killed while trying to stop a car jacking. It happened two doors down from where my sister is currently living and her husband heard the shots fired. The first stories coming out described a man with two kids living in the neighborhood and some friends of the family though it might be Andy who was killed. It's one of those events that still sinking in. I still

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As old readers of the blog will know, one of my main areas of interest is TV shows. I'm not a channel flipper at all, but I do try to keep up with a certain number of shows. I figured a run down of what I'm watching currently would be interesting. These are in no particular order.Chuck - Pretty much just riding this one out since it's the last season. It hasn't been the best for a while now but

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I miss getting my thoughts out on "paper" so I've decided to start blogging again. I'm doing a three pronged approach. Mondays I'll post a video or picture of Grace to tumblr, for those that stay facebook free. Wednesdays I'll post here on whatever topic I'm ruminating on currently, probably TV show or politics or something. Fridays I'll post on a new blog that I'm devoting purely to gaming.I

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Have you been coming to this blog hoping to find new and exciting information about my daughter? If so, you can now go here. If not, well, maybe I'll get around to posting again. Maybe ...

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My sister has set up site for posting pictures of Esme and occasionally she posts a few words. She is not a big fan of blogs or the word itself even, so just think of it as her picture posting website with date stamps or something. Whatever you want to call it, I don't care, just go give it a look.

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Ever since we moved back to New Orleans the people around the corner have been fixing up this house on Magazine. It's kind of an odd house in that it's fairly large and seemingly nice but its smack dab in the middle of a commercial part of Magazine. Anyway, they've finally done enough work on it for it to start looking nice and they decorated it a bit for Mardi Gras. It's one of the highlights of

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Yesterday I went over to my sister's to baby-sit Esmé. She really is cute.One thing I noticed though, it's amazingly hard to get any computer work done while she's awake. She's wasn't much for just hanging out in the crib or the bear seat while I was there. Some stuff I could do while holding her with one hand and using the computer with the other, but typing was out. I don't know how you stay at

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I noticed a few guys wearing hats in today's inauguration broadcast. Then Melissa tells me she read hats are coming back. This makes me happy. I've always wanted to wear hats, and I'm not talking of the baseball variety. Of course since I'm way too self-conscious to just say fashion be damned and wear them anyway, the only hats I own are golf hats and the one German hat. I'm thinking either

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I'm writing this after having just come home to Melissa saying "Umm, something is wrong with your eye. It's like you aren't looking at me." After I made a face she continued, "No, worse than normal." Grrr. Well that might explain the headache I'm starting to get.Over six months ago, I tore my last contact. Having not found an eye doctor in town yet, I just decided to go without for a while. "

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My big resolution this year is to be more social during the work day so that I see people other than those who hang out at Cafe Luna. I went to lunch yesterday with my dad at the restaurant in the clubhouse at the Audubon golf course. We sat outside, ran into Chimene, and basically just had a great time. Today I drove out to Metairie and had lunch with Tony at Parran's. I had never been there

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And my final lazy recap. I'd love to promise you I'll fill in more information, but I don't like to lie.up and packed and out of the hotel by 8:30 - hollywood stuidos near opening - toy story fast pass and line - greg and mo skipping in line - jerky spins queasy - 121k score - aerosmith roller coaster - takeoff not as bad this time - group went to tower of terror - I took a break - shopping,

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Sitting in the airport not feeling great so you get another lazy update that I may or may not go back and edit. Yeah, I'm like that. Too bad for you. :)magic kingdom - fast pass space mountain - thunder mountain - splash mountain - priates - dole whip - fast pass jungle cruise - mickey philaharmagic - its a small world - lunch tomorrow land - monstors inc laugh - space mountain - they left -

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It's late, I'm tired and I'm lazy. Here's a bullet point recap of Thursday. Now off to shower and go Utes!Hollywood Studios - fastpass for Aerosmith - Tower of Terror - lunch at abc commisary cuban sandwich - fastpass for star tours - no fastpass for toy story with two hour wait - backlot tour - muppet 3d - star tours - roller coaster - mickey icecream - walk back to hotel - downtown disney -

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I've got a few minutes today before dinner so I'll try to recap yesterday.After staying out late the night before we got a slow start Wednesday. Worried that the parks might reach capacity and close, we wanted to pick one park and stay there for the day. Greg thought drinking around the countries would make a good evening so we went to Epcot.We started in the land getting fastpasses for Soarin'

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Got in pretty late last night so no time for a post. Short version: New Year's Eve during the day at Epcot is crazy, but the last 30 minutes of the year made up for it. Well done Disney.

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I know all of you reading this didn't think I could do it. You would be amazed at what power the thought of disappointing six other people has over me. We were out of the door by 8AM. Crazy.Animal Kingdom was first up. We got fastpasses for Everest then went over to the African Safari. I'm likely a bit spoiled due to seeing some of the country's best zoos, but the Safari was good. Disney does an

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After a one hour delay we got to Orlando no problem. The hotel is lovely. I think it's like a Disney-fied Grand Hotel. We spent some time in the Magic Kingdom this evening. Haunted Mansion, Lights Parade, and Fireworks, then back to the hotel so we can get an early start tomorrow. Apparently that's how some people do Disney, leaving for a park before 8 AM. Who are these people? :) Hopefully I can

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Every year around Christmas time we and the Barattini's head down to the Quarter and take in the sights. It all started back in college when a bunch of the Loyola crew would take the streetcar to Poppy's. The tradition has changed with our age and size of pocketbook, so now we usually start with lunch at Palace Cafe. Jerry and Dot joined us this year and after lunch we walked down Royal, got a

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"At twenty below the winter storm it billowsBut the fire is so warm insideAnd the children while nestled in their pillowsDream of st. nicholas's rideAnd how the next day they'll get up and they will playIn the still falling christmas snowAnd together we'll celebrate foreverIn defiance of the winds that blow"

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I've always liked Doctor Who. I remember liking it as a kid. One of the first thing I downloaded once I had a web connection was the theme music to the show. (Fun Fact: It was in the au format.) Sc-fi, British, a guy with a scarf, what's not to like.Funny thing is, I can't remember a single episode.Did I ever actually watch it? I honestly can't remember. It's very odd. It must have come on late

Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06601798364018430166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641748.post-46294174900927600982008-12-19T17:20:00.002-06:002008-12-19T17:31:43.333-06:00

Melissa came home from school early yesterday with itchy eyes and the school nurse though it might be pink eye. Without going into too much detail, it didn't take looking at her eye long to know something was wrong. Neither of us have established any relationships yet with a general practitioner, but I had gone to one once almost two years ago after I got sick around the time we first moved here.

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30 Rock is genius.That really could be the whole post and it would be an awesome post at that but I feel the need to say more. In the last episode we watched, Liz had this line where she says, "I just wish I could start a relationship about 12 years in, when you really don't have to try anymore, you can sit around and goof on TV shows, and go to bed without anyone trying any funny business." At

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I happened to catch a few episodes of House on Sunday. Seems like a good show, but then most of the procedurals on TV seem to be these days if you go for that sort of thing. What tends to suck me into to House episodes though is the man himself. His world view and his way of relating to people is both humorous and painful to watch. It doesn't often help that people, normally the patients, act

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Taylor and Richard are doing this hollidailies thing and trying to post every day. I am not that brave. I will commit to posting "more often" and to actively courageously suck.I've become a total facebook addict. It's just so easy to upload pictures and update status and keep in touch with people. If you aren't already on it I encourage you to sign up. Trust me it's not as scary as you think.For

Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06601798364018430166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641748.post-19259542828330100372008-12-12T15:13:00.003-06:002008-12-15T17:16:03.986-06:00

Well it seems that this whole sending blogging updates from the iphone is going to take some more work. That was supposed to be a picture.Edit: I uploaded the photo the old fashioned way.

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The GuysMelissa likes peanutsAnd of course another photo of the niece

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No matter how many times I see this, it never ceases to crack me up.

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I'm about to be an Uncle. How weird is that? I've been so focused on Melissa "beating" me to the first child that I've kinda glossed over that part. Uncle Chad? I mean Lizzie calls me that so I guess I'm used to the title, but still. I'll have a nephew or a niece in a few days. This is gonna take some getting used to.

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I like my job. It's not glamorous and I can make no claims about saving the world, but it's interesting and I'm good at it. Why do I bring this up you ask? Well, my friend Steve, he's out to save the world. No, seriously. Well a small part of it anyway. Check out the link, and be amazed.

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Got back home this evening. The drive wasn't bad, just a little rush hour traffic near Mobile. Power is back on and things seem good. Power might have been out for a good five days though. Melissa braved the fridge and it's smelly but not too bad. Looking forward to visiting whatever local businesses are open tomorrow. Not looking forward to traveling for work on Sunday. Oh, and stay away Ike!

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After around 11 hours in the car, we made it to Jen and Wayne's in Tallahassee around 4:30 AM local time. We've been sleeping on and off all day and are now sitting down to dinner. Hope everyone else is doing well. Stay safe.

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Schools in the Recovery School District and those operated and overseen by the Orleans Parish School Board will be closed on Tuesday, Sept. 2 and Wednesday, Sept. 3, officials said. ... At the earliest, Recovery School District schools will reopen on Thursday, Sept. 4, officials said.At least now we know Melissa doesn't have work Tuesday or Wednesday. That certainly makes any decisions easier on

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This blog will be used as a resource to keep all of us in touch.

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Where was I? Ah yes, Friday. Chad planned a winery tour for the out of town family at some place a friend of his worked. After the longer than expected drive, we finally arrive at the Hall winery. The place was under construction so that was a bit of a downer, but then they started talking about their new building ... desgined by Frank Gehry. That got my attention. The tour guide was very

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The wedding was fantastic. I'll write more about it later. Just wanted to make a quick post to say that we made it back yesterday after a bit of a delay.

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Our last morning at the Queen Anne in SF went down like the other ones, lazy breakfast downstairs in the lobby. I'm really quite pleased with the hotel and recommend it to anyone. After taking a while to pack and get our directions sorted out, we got in the car and on the road. The thirty minute drive to Berkeley was fairly uneventful. One thing to note, the road into town, University I think,

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Had breakfast at the hotel, which is quite handy. We were in a hurry to catch the ferry to Sausalito, a fact that I failed to mention to Melissa. One bus and a short walk later, and we missed the ferry by about 15 minutes. Oops. The plan for the day had been a little packed, so this just forced us to take it a little easier, which it turned out was just fine. The ferry building was redone in 2003

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I've been spoiled by short flights. I'm normally going to like Florida or Texas or maybe Chicago. It takes a good bit longer to get to the West Coast, even longer if you are using Southwest and you stop twice. Anyway, we left home around 10am, and got to the hotel 7pm local time, for a grand total of eleven hours of travel. Fun. Oh, and the Denver airport still gives me the willies. The hotel

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Visiting a place where you used to live makes for an odd trip. You feel at home, and yet it isn't home any more. You have a giant list of things to see and do, which likely isn't possible to do in a short time, and even if it were, it makes for a fairly hectic trip. You have people you want to see but getting to see them all proves difficult. Despite all of that, or maybe because of all of that,

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It's odd to think that the old house in Waveland just isn't there any more. I can close my eyes and picture it and all of the furniture and yet I know none of it is there. Sometimes it's a little too much to think about. What's also odd is the new house in Waveland is almost done. All the talk over do we rebuild or don't we rebuild and then when to rebuild is all over and the house is almost done

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You ever have one of those mornings where things just don't seem to go your way?First off, I must have missed my alarm so I overslept a bit, which prevented a few errands. OK, I guess that's not all that uncommon. But then, as I'm sipping my coffee, I get a call from Melissa ... from the driveway. It seems the lovely realtor next door has parked her car in the driveway and then I guess went out

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Pre-weekend news: Wayne accepted a job at Dominican and will be heading back to New Orleans in late July. Woot. Also, the Gray's have a blog. Check it out.Melissa's had a girls night out Friday to see the Sex and the City movie, so I stayed at home and just did whatever. I did a few chores around the house since I had been slacking during the week and of course got a little WoW in. When she got

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Friday night we went to dinner at Nirvana with Wayne and then spent some time at the Wild's in Lakeview with some of their friends. I believe we went through about six bottles of wine, but it could have been more. I lost count. All in all something I could do all the time. Saturday afternoon we went to a wedding shower for Melissa's cousin Greg. Though it was a good bit warm out, everyone seemed

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In the last six months, Jerry has made more blog posts than me. I can't let that happen. :)Melissa and I spent the weekend in Houston. It's amazing how quickly I've gotten used to not driving that route. One the on hand, everything was very familiar and comfortable. On the other hand, I was ready to be there after about two hours. I can't believe we used to do that 500 mile drive to Austin as

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I got nothing.

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I might have just won the consultant jackpot. Six weeks of full-time work all from the comfort of my own home? Fingers-crossed!Some time back Melissa sent me a write-up she did for ACL. I never posted it. She didn't much like that. Now, it's a music post from Melissa, so it's looong. I'll break it up over a few days to ease the pain. :) Here goes.It is mid-September and the Austin City Limits

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Melissa and I got a chance to watch some new shows last night. We started with Chuck. It was OK. I'm on the fence I suppose. I like a larger season plot to stuff for that kinda of show, like an Alias or a Buffy, and I'm not sure this one will have that. Plus the nerd humor only goes so far, especially when sometimes I feel like they are trying to portray me and doing a horrible job of it. I'll

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I was thinking about this the other day so thought I would post. If you had to rank college football teams based on who you would cheer for, what would it look like? Here is what I have for me so far.Top:1. Auburn2. Texas3. LSU...Bottom:1. USC2. Bama3. Oklahoma4. Florida...So if Auburn plays LSU, I cheer for Auburn. If Bama plays USC, I cheer for Bama. Yeah I currently dislike USC that much.

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Too Long.

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I'm on the road again, but this time it's not for work. Melissa and I are driving to Auburn this weekend to meet up with Jessamyn, Steve, Christy, and Doss. It had been a while since we had all been together, Doss's wedding I think, so we all just thought it would be a good idea. It'll be too short of course, but it'll be fun. Haven't seen Aubrey since November and Melissa hasn't seen her in a

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Friday, March 16thNight showsAfter a long dinner at Mellow Mushroom with Jerry and Chad, I am full and ready to conquer the night. Taylor and Carrie are at the Backyard watching Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, so I am on my own. This is an interesting night because there is not one group I am burning to see. I think a lot of venue jumping will happen tonight. I have gotten a rather late start,

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Friday night Melissa and I took in a New Orleans tradition that I had not tried out before, dinner at Venezia's and dessert at Brocato's. It did not disappoint. There was a bit of a wait, but to me that's usually a good sign. A lot of people had come from Jazz Fest so the dress left a little to be desired. The food was excellent. I had veal parmigiana and Melissa had some sort of chicken covered

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I had been hoping to stick to a better posting schedule than this. Oh well.I'm sitting here enjoying a pre-dinner drink and I thought it would be a good time to go over the past week. Work-wise, it was slow. Can you believe it? Had a good training meeting on Thursday so at least something happened. And it sounds like my next trip is finally lined up. It'll be Minnesota sometime in May. Never been

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Friday, March 16thDay showsIt is Friday and I have one goal today, The Fratellis! I skipped their show last night, so today is my day. I get more sleep than I did the night before and I managed to take some allergy medicine so I am ready to go! Taylor has work he has to do at school, so I head out on my own. I am going to the Island Records UK party that I saw advertised the night before. The

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It's been a slow week so far. I feel like I can be pretty productive work-wise the week after I travel. The weeks after that first though get worse and worse. This week I had a training sessions scheduled that used a web conference tool. Dry material is hard enough as it is, put me on the phone and able to browse web pages without anyone knowing, it's that much worse. Anyway, the good news is

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Melissa and I had a pretty good weekend. Things got started on Friday with Jay and Joan at Jigger's with some crawfish. The first of the season for us and hopefully not the last. I really do love that a random bar room in New Orleans will have decent crawfish. Need to make better use of that.Saturday our early plans for French Quarter Fest were rained out but thankfully the weather cleared up by

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Thursday nightMarch 15th After a stop at the Riche condo to get Taylor and dinner at Thundercloud, I am a whole different person. The food and caffeine have given me a second wind that I desperately needed if I was going to make it another night. Sitting down for a while also helped! So, I have a dilemma tonight. Two bands have overlapping times and I want to see them both. Bloc Party

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Taylor and I got back to the condo at 3am. Yeah, I haven’t seen 3 am in a long time. I am not my husband. He is more of a nocturnal person than anyone I know. Needless to say, getting up in the morning was rough. The other thing is my allergies. They are going crazy. There has been a spike in the oak count and I can feel it. I am determined not to let it slow me down. Taylor has to get some work

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Melissa attended SXSW a little over a week ago and has kindly agreed to give us all a recap of what she did. Enjoy. (And to set the scene read this article to get an idea of what goes on there.)That was brilliant, dahling SXSW is upon us again. The middle of March always gets me excited because I know I will be immersed in new music. This festival always is a precursor to the next big thing

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The Long Road HomeHey, don't go nowhere! The rebirth's on its way. Hey, don't go nowhere! The rebirth's here to stay.A rebirth of unprecedented proportion has taken hold of our community during the past sixteen months. Families displaced have decided to rebuild. Children long removed have elected to return. Neighborhoods are beginning to re-emerge. The entire community has adopted the attitude:

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Let's see. Last weekend Melissa and I went to see MidLake at the Republic on Friday. Little more indie rock than I am used to but I liked them well enough. Music like that usually takes time to grow on me. The venue was pretty nice with a lot of seemingly hip people and as always I just wanted a place to sit down. Then on Saturday we knocked out her last Oscar movie Letters from Iwo Jima. Haven't

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Had Cane's for the first time since moving back. I would have though I would eat it more, but being at your house, as opposed to visiting someone else's, always lends itself to less fast food. Anyway, it was tasty. And it was free! Chris paid for lunch since I was helping him brush up his resume. It's always interesting walking that fine line when writing for a resume. You can't lie. But you want

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Melissa and I went to lunch with Tony and Amee at Brooklyn Pizza. It's good cheap New York style pizza. Little too thin crust and greasy for me though. Nice option nonetheless. Walked around the corner from the house and got my hair cut. It was very much needed and the lady there did a good job. Another place to walk to. Good deal.Last night was an online man night, though really it was just

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It was a pretty slow day yesterday. Not much going on work wise just reading up on a few things for going back to San Antonio next week. Finished installing the new locks in the apartment. The old ones took a good bit of jiggling to work and that was no good when you were in a rush. The new ones work just fine and that means we can start using our front door. Yeah! Now we just need to finish

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Turn on the weather channel if you have a chance and check out pictures of Denver. Then imagine a man walking through all that in a trench coat and loafers. No hat, no boots, no sense of how to handle snow. That would be me. Thank god the rental car came with an ice scrapper and the other IBMer here knew how to drive in snow. Blizzard it is the crazy.

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Melissa and I found a place in New Orleans that we really love. It's a two bedroom one bath first floor of this little house just off Magazine on State Street. Good stuff. It even has off street parking in the back. It's smaller than the house, obviously, so fitting stuff will be tricky, but we have most of it worked out. It's a little far from the normal uptown parade routes, but it's perfect

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War Eagle and Who Dat!

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Why do I have to keep relearning the lesson of promising to do things on this blog? As you can tell, the Rome posts haven't happened yet. Sorry 'bout that. I do have the pictures on Yahoo so that's good. I'd like to say I'm going to go back and caption them, but I don't like to lie.LondonParisMunichRome

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We are back, safe and sound, in Austin. Yesterday was a lovely lazy day. Sleeping in our own bed was great. Taking a long hot shower but heavenly. Doing nothing important all day yesterday was the best ever. The best thing I have done all day today has been to eat bratwurst and heffeweisen in honor of my time in Munich. Real life begins tomorrow.I updated all the remaining days before Rome. I'll

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Updated 9-17 with the Saint Sulpice organ concert, the Lourve, and the Eiffel Tower.

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Posted a few days today, four in fact, and I put the date on the post to match the day we talking about, so I'll give you the links here.9-15 Cone or Cup?9-16 L'etat, c'est moi!9-19 La Vie en Rose9-22 Take the last train to Roma

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Melissa here summing up our day of travel. After two days of drinking, waking up at 7:30 am is a little rough. Jerry definitely had the roughest night of us all. I think he put down about 5 liters of beer. But even with the hangovers we had, the entire Munich trip was fabulous. We got to drink with the locals and that was the best part. Now, onto Rome. The train leaves the station at 9:33

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Melissa here about to give you the second day of Oktoberfest. Last night was not too bad. I only had one beer so we were fortunate enough to not be too hung over. I think we were just too tired to drink that much. We get up at a good hour and hit the internet cafe for some breakfast. We are all able to check email and find out what is going on in the world. It is a nice sunny day, so it should

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Our days and nights in Paris were pretty busy and with our three hour dinners and hot hotel lobby, we didn't have much time for posting. We have kept track of what we have done and will provides updates the moment we have wireless access again.Right now we are in Munich at an Internet cafe. We enjoyed a few hours, and a few beers, at Oktoberfest last night and plan to go back later this afternoon

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We arrived in Munich around nine in the morning. None of us had gotten much sleep due to the night train bunks and getting moving was pretty rough. And then we had to find our way out of the German train station, navigate the streets of Munich, and find the hotel. The area of town around the train station is filled with hotels, and strip clubs. OK then. We find Hotel Monaco without too much

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This is our last final day in Paris. We will get all the culture we can in one single day. The train to Munich if for 10:40. The plan is to hit the Orsay and Rodin museums, Sacre-Couer and take a walk around the Montmartre area. I have notice many little jewelry shops in the Marais area and decide that will be my souvenir in Paris. I wake up before the guys (no surprise there) and head over

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The hotel we are staying is in the Marais area of Paris, and we have walked through the area to get to the Metro and to get to places to eat, but we hadn't really taken a tour of the area. So today we decided to do the Marais walk in the Rick Steve's book. We walk through the yard of the Hotel de Sully and it is at this time that we realize that all the big hotels on the map and actually former

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Melissa and I got up a little earlier than Jerry, had breakfast at the hotel, and went off to Church. Originally I figured we would go to Mass at Notre Dame as that is the church in Paris, but then I found out about the Saint Sulpice organ concert. It seems that Saint Sulpice has a very famous organ and a very famous organist, and before, during, and after the 10:30 Mass, he has a little organ

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Before I read through all the guidbooks, I didn't really want to leave the major towns to do any day trips. I figured it would be best for us to just stick to the metro areas, not have to travel, and try to get a feel for the area we were in. For the most part we have stuck to this plan. Today was the exception, Versailles. As Rick Steve's says it, "If you see just one palace in Europe, see

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Melissa here. It has been a while. We are having trouble getting internet connections and having time to write a post. So, I will be going back about a week. On Friday morning, Chad and I did our usual routine of grabbing a pastry then walking down to get a coffee. The coffee here in France is wonderful. It is strong and tastes great. They aren't fans of artificial sweetner, so I am

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Got hit by a bunch of spam comments so I turned on word verification. I'm sorry if it inconveniences anyone but I felt it had to be done.

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We took our first full day in Paris pretty easy, mostly because we really had to wash clothes. In the morning we had a croissant from a local bakery then had coffee at a nearby cafe. After breakfast we went back to the hotel to start washing clothes. Luckily there was a washer and dryer in the hotel. While the clothes were washing, we decided to do a leisurely walk through the area near our hotel

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NOTE: Two posts in one day. Be sure to check below.Wednesday September 14thToday, we leave for Paris. But first, I must get a little shopping done. I did a little bit of looking on Thursday the first day we got to London. I just wanted to do more and I knew Chad did not need to be with me. So, after a long day before, I get up early to hit the streets. I eat breakfast, pack my bag and head to the

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Tuesday Septmeber 13thWith only one full day left for the three of us, this had to be last remaining biggies day. So that meant Westminster Abbey and Tower of London. Our idea was to catch the changing of the guard first. That required being there at 11:00. You'd think that would be easy. You would be wrong.We as a group stay up late and wake up late. It takes a lot to get one of us up and moving

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The last two days have been busy. Sorry for not posting. Here goes.Monday morning we caught the tube to Victoria station and took the Big Bus Tour. You sit on top of an open air double decker bus while they drive you around London and describe the sights. It was a good way to catch a little glimpse of just about everything and to hear a little history from the tour guide. We took a lot of

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Woke up at a decent hour in order to make the 10:15 Sunday service at St Paul's Catherdral. The closest Tube stop was closed so we had to walk a bit. The bells announcing the service made it pretty easy to figure out which direction to go. It also got me very excited as we walked through the City. The service we attended didn't have a Eucharist, and it was called Mattins and Address if that means

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We woke up this morning a little earlier than the day before, but not by much. Our plan was to do the Beatles Tour, and we had to hustle to get there. Jumped in a train just in time to make it. The Tour itself was quite good. The guy really knew his stuff. We saw places where they filmed "Hard Days Night", we saw houses they rented, we saw Jane Asher's basement, and we finished the tour at Abbey

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Melissa here. Day 2 recap.We slept til 10:30. That's right, 10:30. We went to bed around midnight. I guess we were sleep deprived. I threw on some clothes, Chad put on his shoes and we made in downstairs to the bar just in time for breakfast. It was quick, cereal and toast. Then we headed back upstairs to start the day. We walked down Portobello Road and hit the flea market. The fruit was

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We decided to head out to the West End to do a little walking and a little shopping. Started with Carnaby Street, walked down to the Piccadily Circus, walked over to Leicester Square, then Covent Garden, followed by some walking through SoHo. Lots of theaters, lots of trendy shots, and lots of people in hip clothing. I'll let Melissa add some info on the shopping.With our feet greatly hurting, we

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We made it to London safe and sound and there is wireless in the hotel room so the London blog posts will be easy to post.Long flights are just not fun. I mean sure we got to watch the Da Vinci Code again, but it was on a little LCD monitor that seemed to never be at the right angle. And it's just so hard to get your legs comfy in coach. The flights had a few delays but nothing too crazy. We got

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Woke up at six this morning. Went for a walk and had breakfast at Cafe Java before eight. Cut the grass and vacuumed before ten. Clearly something is wrong with me.Our next post will be from another country, across an ocean, on a different continent. Wow.

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The trip home to New Orleans worked out well and we got to spend a good bit of time with both of the families. Check out the pictures if you are interested.Here are the details for the Europe trip. We're planning to post updates daily so check back for updates.Flight to London InfoFlight Details:ContinentalWed., Sep. 6, 2006Depart: 4:45 p.m. Austin, TX (AUS)Arrive: 5:49 p.m. Houston, TX (IAH)

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I let a date slip by without mentioning it and I need to make amends for that oversight. This past August 3rd was my four year wedding anniversary. Melissa and I celebrated in style. Actually we didn't really. It was a Thursday night and I had to work late so we had dinner at Macaroni Grill and watched the wedding video. We really celebrated in style a week and half later at Vespaio on South

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I have officially accepted a new position with IBM. It is a 50% travel 50% work at home job so it will allow Melissa and I to move back to New Orleans. Wow. This is really happening.In other news, we have been busy trying to do as many Austin things as possible. Thursday we attended the Beastie Boys Rap-Along at the Alamo Drafthouse with the Riches. I found out that I didn't know nearly as many

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IBM has officially announced the products I have been working on. Read the normal write up from CNET, or the more offbeat article from The Register, or the press release from IBM. Of course, just cause things are announced doesn't mean I don't have any work to do. Things are still pretty busy or more correctly, when I have something to do, everyone wants it done now. Enough about work.A couple of

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Yes, it's true. I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft. But really I can't use that as my excuse for not posting. A look back at the history of this blog shows many gaps, so really, it's just because I'm lazy.WoW. Taylor and I play pretty much every night for a few hours. So far it's been very enjoyable. People complain about having to pay a monthly fee to play, but I think I'm getting my

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Since Chad has fallen into the World of Warcraft, I figured I needed to step up to the plate and update this blog. It has been like six weeks, dude. Let’s see if I can paint a small picture of the happenings of the CED IV’s.We attended Chad’s (and Jerry’s) 10 year high school reunion the first weekend of June. I think I was more excited about this then Chad. I can’t believe Chad and I have

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I have spent a while trying to find a good person in Austin to cut my hair. I started at my wife's salon and found a person I liked. Then she left. So I found a new person at the same salon, but due to some salon politics, she became a freelancer and bounced around from salon to salon. All she ever talked about after that was how crappy that salon was. After that I gave up and went back to

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