Well, our two week beach odyssey is almost over…  We have one more day at the beach, which is really a half-day or three-quarter-day because we have to pack up tomorrow night.  It’s been a blast, and I wouldn’t trade a second of it for anything.  That said, I am kind of a home-body, and [...]

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Of all the times we’ve visited the Outer Banks (probably 15 or so), we’ve never spent more than one week.  That is, until now.  I have to say, moving from the condo to our house today was almost as taxing as actually driving down from Ohio in one day and settling in!  Regardless, we’re here, [...]

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Well, not literally, although I can see and hear the ocean from where I’m typing!  It’s been a great first week of vacation so far.  The only problem is that the air conditioning in our condo is broken, so it gets a little warm at times.  The realty company is dragging their feet in getting [...]

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Well, a little bit… With vacation coming up, I’ve decided to focus on baseball and soccer management sims.  I gave up on MLB:FOM for the 360, because the interface was too unwieldy, and because for whatever reason my first guy on the bench would never been on the lineup screen for me to use as [...]

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If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’ve been working on teaching myself to program over the last year or so.  Coincidentally, I’ve also had some programming training opportunities from work.  I’m making a little progress. Before my training class last month, one thing that I was struggling a bit with was functions (in [...]

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We basically have almost a two week respite from kids’ sports or other activities, which will take us almost right up to our vacation.  I have a baseball practice on Sunday, and then two games on Friday the 12th, which is the night before we head to the beach. After catching my breath, I’m hoping [...]

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