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So I entered the TopCoder Open sponsor track competition (since I work for a sponsoring company I couldn’t compete in the main competition (not that I had ever heard of it before)) and since there was no prize money for the sponsor track my company said they would give prizes for the top 3 employees. […]

Here are some pictures my dad took of us getting the dogs acquainted with the pool. Overall it went ok and I’m sure with more time we could get Grover entering and exiting easily.

Not that I was really in it. About a week before the competition began my company mailed everyone in the company that a sponsor track was opened for those employed by the companies that sponsor the event. Unlike the main competition I don’t think there are any prizes for the winners, so my company stated […]

Nicole and Tami and I went to Disneyland on Monday and got there when the park opened and intended to stay until closing. The food places outside the park don’t open unti lthe park opens so we ate breakfast in the park at the Carnation Cafe and then went off to the newly re-opened Space […]

We visited my parents and sister this past weekend with the intent to get the dogs in the pool (and hopefully to show them where to get out of the pool if they fell in) and to go to Disneyland with Tami. Sunday was for the dogs. We got in and tried to convince Grover […]

Yesterday we went to the video store and didn’t rent anything, but then we noticed they had a lot outside that was for sale. Clearing out things that weren’t renting so much. All the DVD discs were flawless or nearlyflawless and for $25 we got: The Cider House Rules (VHS) Collateral (DVD) – Haven’t seen […]

After a number of weeks of long hours trying to get this project done enough for a demo to the company big-shots it’s done. Not that we fixed everything we wanted to fix, it’s just that we’re out of time and it’s going to have to do well enough on its own now. All I […]

Peter called my cell phone around 4:15PM and asked if we wanted to get pizza for dinner. I said yes and told him to call back in about 45 minutes so I could get more work done. About an hour later Liana called and asked what the deal was. we suggested Engfer’s Pizza Works since […]

We just bought a new king-sized bed. We picked out the new bed frame and the nice foam (not body molding so you can still roll over) mattress and to get over thinking about how much it was I started thinking of how long the mattress is supposed to last and how much bedding like […]

We haven’t tried the washing machine yet, but it has a nifty valve for both hot can cold water with a simple lever, and it’s all in a box in the wall instead of sticking out! It took the plumber 8 hours to do everything and clean up. Part of that was because his back […]