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Photos i took from the ThunderStorm last night:

there are a couple decent photos in there!

i know you guys are wondering what ever happened to that “T” guy… well, i’m still here. just been busy as H-E-double hockey sticks. last week, i was at a Team Meeting for work and i got back wiped out! this weekend i hardly left the house – which wasn’t all that bad cuz it was raining pretty much the whole time. and Sunday was katie’s birthday. we celebrated with lunch at her parents and a date-night dinner with a brief stint fishing off a fishing dock on Pike Lake in Amery (brief cuz it was chilly and windy).

I have tried to get out fishing more this summer. and it’s only worked out so well. while i did make a trip to the cabin, found an afternoon on the kinnickinick and a couple other short times out wetting a line… i haven’t caught too many fishes. but it has been fun outside and in decent weather for the most part.

although i haven’t seen it, i’m finding myself to be a fanboy of The Hangover. primarily because i think Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. plus, ed helms is pretty solid as well. imma try to check it out soon.

that’s a brief update from me to you. l8rs

this morning, the 100 pushup challenge was completed! i’m pretty dang pleased too. i’ve gotten quite a bit of response from the facebook crowd as i’ve been posting the “100 pushup challenge – day ##: complete” message in my status the last couple few days.

“what’s the 100 pushup challenge all about?” or “what’s the 100 pushup thing?”… once i explain it to them, they exclaim that they’re going to try it too. well, so far i haven’t heard from anyone who’s claimed to go for it – how they’re doing on it. it’s tough to stick with it, specially some days…

and since i’ve come this far, my next challenge is to keep going… i don’t think i’m going to keep adding one, but i am going to start the 10,000 pushup challenge, 10kpc, 100 for 100… now that ive gotten the 100 pushups done, i’ll try to do 100 pushups for 100 days – for a total of 10,000 pushups.

Edit 4/25/09:
I’ve renamed the challenge a couple times, i think we’ll stick with 100 for 100… it’s day 15, so far so good! the 100 is getting easier, too!

hello, my name is T and i am a geek.

Everyone: Hi, T

i can has a blackberry. it’s my calendar, a gaming device (Texas Holdem anyone?), i tweet on it, i check multiple email addresses… oh, and i can make phone calls with it too.

my gravatar is from a hilarious web video any true designer geek will love. I’ve got accounts on facebook, myspace, linkedin, twitter, stumbleupon, AIM, yahoo!, msn, gtalk, ICQ, skype and more email addresses than any sane person can check on a daily basis.

it’s becoming more and more difficult to put time into any of these – as all these things can be a total time-sucking waste of time. but they’re also a lot of fun – i’m able to keep in touch with friends i’ve not spoken to in a coon’s age.
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came across this quality XKCD comic today:

while the focus has been on these AIG bonuses – the real problem is the fact that we’ve given them money at all… hey, government stay the FSCK out of the private affairs of businesses! if the government didn’t give AIG and those other institutions the stupid bailout money, we wouldn’t have to <airquotes>waste congress’s time</airquotes> with these unconstitutional-rush-bills that are taking away more and more of our liberties and freedoms…

why don’t people (and i’m referring to anyone in any position in government and the pBO apologists) realize that they are making it difficult for people to be forced to live with the consequences of their actions. face it, not everything you do will turn to gold. not every decision you make will be correct. and when you make bad decisions, bad financial purchases, when you bought a house you couldn’t afford… too F’n BAD. you figure out a way to handle your debts – maybe you’ll have to sell your 52″ plasma TV and your Wii… i don’t feel bad for you. as much as i would like a bigscreen TV and a Wii and a new bigger house, i can’t afford it and so i will have to wait for those luxuries. you should’ve done the same

when i was in college, i’d remember phone numbers by using the football jersey numbers of teammates… for example, if someone told me their number was 425-3489, i’d remember it as 425-Garry-Hughell (Ryan Garry was #34 and Rusty Hughell was #48). a funny lil bit-o-history you might or might not care about…

yesterday, in my 100 pushup challenge, i did 77 pushups, Heath “Texas” TerWee was #77 in college. some nights, the pushup challenge goes smoothly and i’m able to finish in one straight-through go. other nights, i collapse in a pile at around 50 or so… thems is tired days. tonight, i do 78 – and it might be a tough night.

i’ve also been walking during the day at work – walking to “Turkey Hill” (a term coined when a co-worker saw a turkey on the hill a couple years ago). the first couple times i’ve taken the walk, it’s taken me 28 minutes in total at a brisk pace. i’m planning on keeping at it and cutting time down eventually to 25 minutes at which time i will figure out a way to carry some weight during the walk. i’m thinking of getting a weight vest but those are quite pricey for a decent one. if you know of a quality weight vest at a solid price, let me know. i’ve let myself go physically to a point where i’m not pleased with myself – it’s time to change all that.

i also need to find time in the schedule to get back into the P90X workouts on a regular basis. those are brutal workouts and i like it!

I just wanted to say thank you to all my friends and family that surprised the heck out of me last night. I was absolutely clueless – and looking back, i’ve already noticed a myriad (or plethora) of clues that, had i any inkling, would’ve tipped me off… ahhh, ignorance is bliss!

to those who were unable to attend, thank you, but you missed a good time.

life is good when you’ve got a wife who will go through all that trouble for you and friends who support and love me… i am truly blessed.

i got this the other day in an email… a supposed to be funny, ha ha joke…

**The Heaviest Element Known to Science***

*Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

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100 pushup challenge… yesterday i did 50 pushups. today, i just did my 51 pushups. outside of a sporadic p90x workout, that’s all i’ve been able to find time to do in terms of working out. it blows like the wind on a blustery day, but as of late, i just do not have the time to workout.
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A couple months ago, i lost both of my 19″ monitors – they were Hanns G monitors, i got them on the cheap, with a rebate and they worked well… until we lost power and one went, gone, didn’t work anymore. i still had the other one, so i went from a dual monitor to a single monitor. which was bad enough. THEN whilst i was away in November hunting, we lost power again… this time, the other monitor blew out, didn’t work, gone.

so now i’m using an old 15″ gateway LCD monitor because i got rid of all my old CRT monitors and i have no other options. i’ve been scouring the internets for new monitor deals, but every monitor is a widescreen. why? why can’t i get a nice 4:3 ratio monitor or two? i do not care for widescreen, never have. it’s impossible to get a non-widescreen laptop anymore as well. i’m in the market for some new hardware – but i’m not excited about anything i see. i don’t know how i ever did this in the past… one monitors suck and one small monitors sucks even more.