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Less than a month to go before the dreaded drive down to Florida. At least I have something to look forward to once we get there.

Florida weather for today: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.

Buffalo weather for today: Lake effect Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory in effect from 3 PM this afternoon to 9 PM EST this evening… Cloudy and becoming windy. Light snow developing later this morning…with some heavier snow showers possible later this afternoon. Accumulation 1 to 3 inches. Highs in the lower 30s. South winds 10 to 15 mph…becoming southwest and increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 90 percent.

This entry was posted by Eric on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 am and is filed under Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I’m not a big music fan, but I can across this site the other day and love their stuff - and you can download it for free!

Bootie - Bootie has been spinning only the finest bootleg mashups and bastard pop since 2003

Scroll to the bottom and download their 2005, 2006 and 2007 “best of” albums.

This entry was posted by Eric on Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 9:04 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I’m not a big fan of my birthday. I mean, I do appreciate being alive for another year, but I don’t like being the center of attention and I really don’t like getting gifts. During Christmas, my favorite thing to do is to sit back and watch everyone else, especially the kids, open their gifts. The joy on their faces is what I look for.

Today, I turn 29. That’s a pretty depressing number for me. It seems so old. I think it’s the “9″ in there. 30 seems better than 29. Then again, I’m not turning 30, so I probably shouldn’t make that statement.

I sometimes think I haven’t accomplished much in these 29 years. That’s probably because I tend to hang out with people older than myself. Or maybe because things haven’t changed much in the past 3 years, since Morgan was born. There was so much going on from 2001 to 2005 (getting married, finishing grad. school, kids being born), but since 2005, I’ve felt like I’ve been on cruise control.

Luckily, my birthday doesn’t get dragged on, because my family loves April and we have lots of babies in January. After me on the 18th, there’s Mark & Morgan on the 20th, Kim on the 21st, Becca on the 22nd, and Laura on the 24th.

Well, here’s to another year. Hopefully I can at least get in the hot tub tonight.

This entry was posted by Eric on Friday, January 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am and is filed under Family. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Here’s a tip for you: stop IMing your buddies your passwords!

Well, duh. Why would anyone do this in the first place? Because sometimes you’ll be typing in your password and hit “Enter” then look up and realize your buddy IMed you just before you started typing, so you typed your password into the reply and sent it to him.

How do you stop from doing that? Well, you could learn how to type without looking at the keyboard (including special characters), or, when you’re ready to submit your password, use the mouse and click the button, rather than hitting enter.

It won’t help you Linux-folk who think the world should be green text on a black background, but for anyone using a GUI, this tip will prevent you from having to change your password to your bank account, after explaining to your co-worker what your contribution to the conversation really meant…

Co-worker: Hey, did you finish the report for the Peterson project?
You: loverboy69
Co-worker: What???
You: uh… I’m wrapping it up now.
Co-worker: OK, lover boy.

This entry was posted by Eric on Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 11:14 am and is filed under Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I like Kenmore… so much, in fact, that I actually considered getting involved in the Kenmore government a few months back when there was a vacancy, but I need to learn a lot more and get some things off my plate before I can really get involved. I went to a few neighborhood watch meetings, but they seemed to have died off.

Well, there was an article in the Buffalo News today about the Village, building permits and licenses.

People are reinvesting in the community, which is an important thing

I like hearing things like this. If only everyone cared about their home and the Village, it’d make it a much stronger community.

This entry was posted by Eric on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am and is filed under Home. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Wow - this is huge! Yahoo now earns you 5% cashback with American Express!

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This entry was posted by Eric on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 at 5:33 am and is filed under Affiliate Marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.