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Curling RocksFiled Under: Life

I’ve really enjoyed Olympic Curling this year. I can’t wait until the 2014 Winter Olympics. Go Curling!

No title can express my disdain for youFiled Under: Life

I try to avoid controversial topics but this one really boils my water.

http://bit.ly/b1AF3u

Return HomeFiled Under: Life

We’re back from Canada. It was a long 8 hour drive home from Montreal but not as bad as the 11 hour drive to Quebec City which started the trip. The temperatures were a lot colder than we expected. Some days the high was 1 degree F before wind chill. The wind was very strong in Quebec City. Good thing for scarves and hats. Back to work tomorrow and apparently there is a snow storm coming our way. That’s funny since while in Canada we only had a few flurries and we had to come home to get snow. They said the temps were unusually cold for this time of year up there and the snowfall was unusually low. That’s a weird combination.

Winter PreparationFiled Under: Life

I’m sorting through all our winter gear so we can pack it up for the big Canada trip. Its only 5 days away and we need to be ready for 21 degree highs.

ECMFiled Under: Technology

Enterprise Content Management is a really interesting topic. Where does it end? Documents? Emails? Unstructured Data? Its not easy to define or manage. Tools exist to help but the technology is the least of the problem. Business process alignment to ECM patterns is not consistent or easy. I hope over the next 20 years this is worked out. Its not a matter of technology or processing speed. Its a matter of business process.

Lots of drivingFiled Under: Life

I’ve drove over 400 miles over the past 3 days. I’m looking forward to a regular schedule the rest of the week.

Sunday Night FootballFiled Under: Football

I’m headed to the Cowboys @ Redskins game tomorrow. The game starts at 8:20pm and we’re leaving West Chester sometime between 2:30 and 3:00. That will give us enough time for a few drinks before the game. Its going to be cold so there’s no need to spend too much time outside before the game. I probably won’t be home until 3 or 4am on Monday. Good thing I’m off all week.

Go Skins!

Also Go EAGLES!!!

Lamp PostFiled Under: Life

The worst cast scenario for the new lamp post is it running from 5pm to 7am whitch is 14 hours. Based on my current power generation numbers, a 60 watt bulb costs me $1.25 to run for 14 hours. I switched to an outdoor 13 watt CFL bulb today and now it costs me $0.27 to run for 14 hours. I save $0.98 a night. The bulb cost me $3.97 so after about 4 nights I will already be saving money. Jackpot!

DroidFiled Under: Miscellaneous

This entry is from my new Droid. It’s so much better than an iPhone.
1. Removable battery
2. Removable storage
3. 2x better screen resolution
4. Real keyboard

Turkey 2009Filed Under: Food

I’m spending hours on turkey preparation research this year. I have most things figured out.

• Bringing Recipe
• Cooking Preparation
• Cooking Procedure and Time-line

This years a bit more complicated because Erin wants it cooked on the BGE to free up the oven. It will be a challenge. I hope I don’t ruin Thanksgiving. I need to figure out what to cook it in. A aluminum pan from the grocery store should work from what I’m reading on the BGE forums. If its too big for the egg, the cheap aluminum can bend. I still need to find something to act as a direct heat blocker so that the bottom of the pan doesn’t burn. I’m thinking a cookie sheet with the BGE feet to raise the roaster up a bit to allow air flow.

Next I need to come up with a formal time-line of turkey cooking tasks working backwards from a 2pm Thanksgiving Day dinner time.

–Update: I just found my cooking vessel answer here. Thank you Mad Max.