Steve Sizemore's Weblog

I want to start this entry off letting every know that I'm a complete moron. Things that would be totally apparent to most normal people are lost on me. I go to the Mountain Goats show every year at Cafe Eleven in St Augustine. It's kind of a drive from Jacksonville, but hey I can't blame for not wanting to play in Jacksonville. There's just nothing here ... and I really mean that in the worst possible way. So anyway, I've been looking forward to this show all year ... it's been on my delicious links and everything. So we get to the show, and I go to give people my money, and the girl at the door looks at me like I'm crazy, and I probably am ... and says "it sold out 2 days ago." How could I let this happen? The thought never occurred to me that the show could sell out. So we get back into the Prius and drove home. So now I have to wait until next year. If I lived in a real town it wouldn't be that big of a deal. I could say something like, "it's no big deal The Decemberists or Band of Horses or The New Pornographers are going to be here next week." But I can't say that, because I live in the most boring town on the face of the earth. And this show, was probably the only show I was going to hit this year. Maybe next year John will get a large venue, or maybe even play two nights. But then again I have no idea how these things work.

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I'm currently transitioning out of my full time job with G Corp. Last month I was given an opportunity to join a small company involved in performing Engineering and IT Support for the Navy. I'm really excited about working for a smaller company; I have a sense of ownership here at ASI that I haven't felt with my previous employer in some time.

My core job with remain the same, I'll still be a Sr. Software Engineer specializing in ColdFusion, and that's a very good thing. I really enjoy that type of work. More to follow.

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Each day I was doing a scheduled post of my del.icio.us links. It was pretty neat, because you could see what I was interested each day, but it kinda took over my blog. If you miss the links, you can go to my del.icio.us account. Expect to see more posts (of the human generated type) and more photos on this site.

Also, Michele and I are planning a complete redesign of sizemoresr.com (our home page). It's long overdue. We planning on having this done by the time we leave for our summer vacation.

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I've got a serious case of the Mondays today. The only thing I've got going for me is that the new season of "The Office" starts tomorrow at 9:30 PM EST on NBC.

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August 20th markted the second anniversary for this weblog. I wanteded to do a major relauch on the 20th, but I was on travel to OKC. For this occasion, I've upgraded to movabletype 3.2, and changed the look and feel of the site. The other major new thing you'll see on the site is content. This blog with the be focal point for all my online content. My flickr photos, del.icio.us links, and diggs willl all appear on this blog. Because some much content will feed into this site from external sources you should see at least one post each day.

There are two ways to get to my blog.
1. http://www.sizemoresr.com/mt
2 http://www.stephensizemore.com

Take a moment to view the menu on the right site of the screen:
The MY STUFF section lists this blog, my photos, links, and digg.

After you had a chance to review the site, I would appreciate your feedback. Thanks taking the time to read this.

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After months of just an image, Serenity, the new Joss Whedon movie based on the canceled fox sci-fi western is finally able to be perused. Included is a full flash website with small clips from the film plus other activities.

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You've probably noticed by now the new layout of my blog. I recently moved my website to dreamhost from readysetconnect. When I uploaded my blog to dreamhost, I was unable to login to my blog. I think this was because the version of the Berkeley DB library was different.

Think I could have updated my db files or got with dreamhost, but instead I decided to download the movabletype files and start over from scratch.

I imported my txt backup I made on the old host, and I was up and running in 20 minutes. All of the catagories and entries imported flawlessly. The only thing I lost was the templates. I'm still in the process of tweaking the sitestyle. I should have something up this weekend.

Update: I ended up upgrading my db anyway. I found the solution on dreamhosts forums.

Here's the solution:

You need to telnet in to your site. Change directory to get inside your MT database directory.

Then run this command:

db4.3_upgrade *.db *.idx

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Widgets
Originally uploaded by sizemoresr.

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For years I've thought that I don't dream at all. While other people have these elaborate tales that come from the dream life, I've got nothing.

After reflecting on it, I've come to the conclusion that I do have dream at night. The content? My dreams are about nothing. My dreams are full of Swingline Stapplers and Timesheets. I have the Seinfeld of dreams. I dreamt last week that I went to work. I had a meeting. I can picture the George Castanza in my brain pitching the idea for these dreams.

"It's a dream about nothing. What did you do today?"

"I drove to work. Answered some emails. Attended a few meetings."

"That's a dream!"

And the big Dream Exec. is sitting there saying "A dream about nothing? Who'd want to watch that?" But apparently George is pretty persuasive, cause in the end, that's what's on.

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NAS Cecil Field in 2005 (after closure)
Originally uploaded by sizemoresr.

Check out my flickr account and my del.icio.us links.

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The Mountain Goats released The Dilaudid EP today. It's only £3. (that 3 GBP or about 5.60 USD)

The tracklisting is :

1. Dilaudid
2. This Year
3. Collapsing Stars
4. Dilaudid (Marrtronix Version)

The EP is available as a download ONLY. It comes with v23-designed artwork and is available in both MP3 and AAC formats. I think it's awesome that they're willing to sell you music with out DRM. The songs are in MP3 or unprotected aac. The album art work is enbeded in the files as well as 2 pdfs.

I really like "This Year." Well worth the £3. I can't wait for the full release of the ablum next month.

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(12:30:06) Steve S (anteon): http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/en/
(12:30:25) Guy at work: I'm going to contact a couple of friends over there to see if they want to go. If they do you're more than welcome to join us.
(12:30:25) Steve S (anteon): that gives me about a year to save up, and learn english football
(12:30:35) Steve S (anteon): cool
(12:31:02) Guy at work: I'll give you the rules....They are drink and then drink some more
(12:31:20) Steve S (anteon): I can handle that

[the names have been changed to protect the innocent.]

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-Mozilla Firefox
This is the best browser out there. I've been using Mozilla since I worked at Interlink in 1999. It's been my primary browser since 2002.

-office supplied coffee
Does it mean I'm addicted to caffine when I make statements like, "I really don't mind going to work. I can drink coffee and surf the internet there?"

-movabletype
This is the content management system I use for my weblog. It's pretty full featured and easy to use.

-Strongbad's weekly email

Updated most Monday's this email series has quickly become my favorite cartoon series. It's also sure to kill 5 minutes on Monday and might even cause me to laugh out lowd. I have a del.icio.us links tag for my favorites. (http://del.icio.us/sizemoresr/homestarrunner)

-podcasts
Even if you don't have an iPod, podcast are really cool. Podcasts are basically 'radio shows' that are distributed as mp3 files on the internet. I currently listen to the macCast and Leo's KFI airchecks.

-flickr
I just started using this durring the weekend. It's a great tool to share photo's on the internet. I'm currently using the free account, but will probably upgrade to the pro account.

-free wi fi
It seems to be almost everywhere these days. Panrea bread has it.

-delicious
Throughout the day I post links to del.icio.us. It allows me to visit that same page at a later date from another location.

-fedora core
I've been using redhat since version 6. Fedora core is the free version of the redhat linux distro. It looks awesome and is widely supported.

-gmail
Gmail is a free e-mail account. It gives you 1GB of storage space, and have a very powerfull search tool. I forward all of my personal emails to gmail. As well as notes to myself throughout the day. I kinda use it as a second brain. I can "ask" it thinks like "UTA Dates 2005" or "bikeweek 2005"

-gaim
I use gaim to sign it to my aim and msn im accounts. At work I use gaim more often than my desk phone.

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I'm taking a short vaction. I'm headed to New York on Thursday, Feb 24th. I'll return the following Sunday. It should be a nice break from work. I've never been there, so I'm looking forward to seeing the city and hanging out with my dad.

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On my iPod Playlist this morning:

-Bright Eyes
-Interpol
-the Hives
-the Shins
-Idlewild
-Flaming Lips
-Modest Mouse
-Death Cabe For Cutie
-David Bowie: Life on Mars (Life Aquatic Soundtrack)

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I got my AFOQT scores yesterday. They we're a little lower than I expected, but all and all they were good scores. After doing some research on the internet, I found out that the scores I got on each section qualifies me for pretty much every job in the AF. I'm submitting 3 packages for 4 different officer vacancies at the end of the month. Even if I don't get one of the open positions, at least I will be better prepared for the next opportunity.

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... the test is over.

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-Meet with our customer from OKC
-Finalize EBM Design and Features
-Macworld Coverage on Tuesday
-Take AFOQT on Wednesday
-Work on my application of commission
-Request Transcripts from FSU and UNF

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I got together with my friends last night for a little Christmas party. We went to London Bridge Pub for 'Fish and Chips' and beer (John Courage), and then on to the Casbah for a few more drinks. It seems like every year, we all seem to get together in the last few days before Christmas. Most of us had Christmas Eve off from work, so we were all able to stay out later than usual. I had a blast. Gabe, Dave, Toni, Clark and Travis were all able to attend. Other than my immediate family, these are the people I'm most real around. I forgot my Sony Cybershot, otherwise you would be looking at pictures of the pub, and the nicest pub owner I’ve met since Iceland.

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Karen just bought me some clips to hang up my pictures. It kinda makes the place seem more like home.

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I'm constantly sending emails to myself with websites to review at home or to add to my favorites. It's effective, but it often results in 5-10 emails to myself per day.

Del.icio.us is a free service that allows you to post links your own personal weblog. Mine is located here. This works great with you use firefox's built in RSS reader. If you subscribe to your site's RSS feed, the links you post will automatically appear on all of your computers.

Here's all the details:

» del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

» Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser (see below). When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others.

» You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you've added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords.

» What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting.

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This was very useful today. It allows you to manipulate select boxes with javascript.

http://www.jelnet.co.uk/cv/jeljava/example34_selectedindex.htm

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THE ELECTRIFYING CONCLUSION TOUR

Sunday December 12
Orlando, FL - Beacham Theatre

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I'm working on streamlining the way I display photos on my site. Here is the work in progress.

http://www.sizemoresr.com/photos/

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There's finally a museum deticated to the science fiction genre. The museum is located in Seatle, WA. The museum was founded by Microsoft's Paul Allen.

"SFM’s Advisory Board, comprised of renowned science fiction creators including, among many others, Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, James Cameron, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg, has played a key role in the creation of SFM and will continue to guide it into the future."

More information about SFM is available on their website. I might have to take a vacation to Seatle soon.

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Lou Genin was right. Seabiscuit may be the best movie ever. At least I think so. But what do I know? I like movies like Rudy and Rocky I-IV. Just give me a movie were the main character triumphs over all the odds to win and I'm all over it, no matter how much they laugh at me for getting chocked up watching it. ... Good stuff.

Getting back on Netflix was definitely a good decision.

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I recently bought a new domain name. Now you can access my weblog in three easy ways.

1. www.sizemoresr.com/mt
2. www.stephensizemore.com
3. stephensizemore.com
4. weblog.sizemoresr.com

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I'm going on a one month deployment to Iceland with the Florida Air National Guard.

I'm leaving for Iceland in July and will return one month later. I'm pretty sure it will be continuous daylight the entire time I'm there. Sunrise is at 03:04 am and sunset is at 11:57 pm. It should be interesting.

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I found a great article on how to use Sprint PCS vision with Mac OS X. I tried it just before I left of a family road trip, it works great!

Right now we're in the van headed to Leesburg, FL. Suddenly, this trip just got a whole lot better.

I'm getting about 256kbs with:
12" Powerbook
Sanyo SCP-8100
FutureDial USB cable purchased at Radio Shack

This is awesome.

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"Unfortunately a fault was found in the engine concerning the cut off sensor which is used for rider safety in the event of the bike falling (once the bike is laid down the engine must cut of automatically within two seconds). The team tested the relevant engine part at the beginning of the season, when the bike was taken for testing after race two it was found to be faulty. For this reason Chris was disqualified costing him valuable championship points.

Chris is now 5th in the ranking of the World Championship with 83 points and Laconi is leading with 120 points."

More Info at WorldSBK.com

I was already pretty bummed out that Pierfrancesco Chili blew two engines in race 1, and then wrecked in race two. This was the most disappointed World SuperBike race I've ever watched. It's like an Italian opera.

"Before the desperate disappointment of a double DNF at the previous Monza round, Ducati privateer Pierfrancesco Chili led the world on his 998R-based Ducati machine. Even after two no scores at Monza, he still sits in third place overall, safe in the knowledge that he had an outstanding second place in race one last year. Looking for payback from lady luck, Chili approaches his 40th birthday in June with as much speed and aggression as riders half his age, ensuring his continued popularity to a global audience." - WorldSBK

I'm looking forward to the races at Oschersleben next week.

More News from Monza

chrisvermeulen.com

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Scott and I just returned from our most successful trip to Oklahoma City. We spend 5 days in OKC. At the end of the trip, we had the database users happy to use our new application, and with a promise of more funding this year.

Monday
Arrived at the Wing at 1:00 pm
Met with our technical Point of Contact

Tuesday
Installed the new web application and database

Wednesday
Met with the users of the application

Thursday
Made several bug fixes and last minute changes

Friday
Left OKC at 10:00 am

More info about the E-6 Program

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In a few hours, I'm leaving for my hotel room in Tallahassee, Florida. My family and I will spend the night in Tally, and then go to the graduation ceremony at the Civic Center tomorrow morning.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that supported me over the last 6 1/2 years. I've been really fortunate to have a small group of friends, family, and coworkers that supported me and kept focus. Without that, I would have quit years ago. Thanks to all of you, I have finally earned my IS Degree.

From January 2, 1998 - September 11, 2001 I took night classes at UNF while working a technical support job at interlink (a local ISP), and later an applications development position at ISI.

September 11 - 30 September 2002 & March 2003 - July 2003 I spent some time on active duty with the Florida Air National Guard.

In August 2002, I started distance learning at Florida State. This was suggested to me by my bother Scott. This allowed to to go to school full time for the first time in my academic career. Thanks to distance learning, I could do my classwork on the weekend or late in the evenings. If I hadn't switched to FSU, I would still be taking night classes at UNF with a projected graduation date of May 2006!

I'm not sure what I'm going to do after this. I think if I could change a few more things with Anteon (my current employer) I think I could be happy there. Now that I'm in a management role, I think I can make it happen. But for now, I think I'm going to spend some time with my family that I neglected over the past 6 1/2 years.

So thanks again to everyone that stood by me and helped make whole thing possible.

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Until I graduate FSU.

UPDATE: This is now a "countdown" of the time SINCE graduation as I have already graduated. Now, after work I do nothing and it's everything I thought it could be.

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Tonight Michele and I are going to see the Mountain Goats at Cafe Eleven in St. Augustine, FL.

Jenny Video (warning: high volume!)

One of the coolest things about this show is that John subsituted Ducati for kawasaki in the song "Jenny.'"

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http://hyper.straining.org/

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I making this post from panera bread company in Mandarin. Panera offers free wi fi. It's pretty awesome being online here in the coffee shop with my powerbook G4 and a cup of coffee. Now I'm wired and wireless. Maybe I should take my guys from work on a field trip. We all could work from here with wi fi over VPN.

I'm finishing up my Christmas shopping with a trip to compusa. Glad I took the day off.

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Me and my son went to go get our haircut this afternoon. Its really funny to me how he seriously enjoys just doing everyday activities with me. I enjoy it too. Its we both of us go out that I realize how he's a smaller version of me. Its really interesting what he notices and what he thinks about the world around him. He's a pretty deep thinker for a four year old.

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When I called bellsouth after we lost phone service at ISI, the lady we real short with me because of my lousy cell phone. When she complained about not being able to hear me very well I said, "we'll if you guys didn't cut my hard line we wouldn't have this problem." No, I didn't really say that. But I thought it, and then I laughed.

I'm stay way too busy with work and school lately. I'm thinking about take off with Michele this weekend. I have this Friday off from work. I dunno.

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I'm counting down the seconds until I get my new powerbook g4 later this week. To kill the time, I found this great web site with tons of OS X hints: macosxhints

Most of of the tips are really UNIX hacks, which I think is awesome. I really bought a UNIX workstation. Here are some of the more useful tips:

• Start SNMP
• Share iPhoto libraries with multiple users on one machine
• Block VeriSign's attempt at internet domination
• Ambush an offline iChat buddy
• Use a PlayStation gamepad on OS X (I should get Tony Hawk 4 so I can grind on the road.)

My powerbook should ship on the 30th. I can't wait.

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This was the view from my hotel room.

I had a great time in Palm Coast. I attended the 3.0 (Logistics) Off Site meeting. Basically the 1st, 2nd and 3rd level supervisors all get together semiannually to discuss management issues off site. This allows the management team to spend a lot of "quality" time together in a setting free of the normal distractions of "the office."

I was ready to go because on Tuesday, I had all the distractions I could take!

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This is a pretty prestigious award, and it’s the second time I’ve received it. This time, I was awarded the Air Force Commendation medal for building an ASP website for the Air National Guard Personnel conference.

It’s really nice to be recognized like this, but at the same time I feel pretty guilty about it. I work with some extremely dedicated people that work a lot harder than I do. I get awards and decorations a lot more frequently than they do. I guess the reason why is that everything I do (like web and database apps) are extremely visible. Another thing I have going for me is that I’m a workaholic. I check my ANG email even when I’m not at work. I connect remotely and work from home often. People notice this stuff.

As for the inspection this weekend, it’s really going great. This is because of the all the hard work of my co-workers out there. I hope they get some serious recognition for this one, because they really transformed the Network Control Center (NCC) into something great. I just hope it stays that way, and continues to improve.

This drill weekend with the Air National Guard has been great. Drill weekends sort of feel like family reunions. These people have seen pretty much ever side of me, and we’re really close. A big part of the monthly drill weekend is catching up everything that’s happened in the past month. We talk about work, motorcycles, football, school, and my future career plans. It’s pretty nice. About all else, it’s the reason why I stay in the guard.

Tomorrow is the last day of the September UTA and the UCI inspection. I plan on riding my bike in and staying pretty low key.

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Scott came by tonight for Renna's Pizza, Apple Pie, and homemade ice cream. Just a good ole time in small town, USA.

All and all, today was a great day. Except when I lost my data stick. That was really sad. I really love the data stick. I put my files on it. Files like 3 slide power point presentations. Then I use the data stick in high profile meetings, and everyone looks at me like I'm some sort of man from the future. Everyone whats to learn about the data stick. Then I have to talk about the data stick, like I sell them or make them or something. Aren't I special? Jeez, I'm glad I found my data stick.

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Today, and I turned on my Dell Axim Pocket PC, and it said: "No upcoming appointments." THIS NEVER HAPPENS! This means I can just work, and then go home, and do nothing. How cool is that?

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And so it begins

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My TiVo is working overtime today. Right now there is an "American Choppers" and "Start Trek: TNG" marathon in progress. American Choppers is ranked higher, so it is recording the eps I've haven't seen in the past month. Next, TiVo records the TNG eps that don't conflict with American Choppers.

This morning I looked for jobs on Monster.com . Looks like I can make 110k if I move to NY. I don't plan on moving until Spring / Summer of 2004, when I finish school at FSU, but it's nice to see what's out there.

I finally got started with my FALL 2003 course work. Looks like a great semester.

Later on today, I'm going on a ride with my brother Scott, and my Dad. Should be fun. Pictures to follow.

Mac Rumor: MAC OS 10.3 Panther should be out in mid October. I wish this OS would just come out so I can buy my first Mac. I've been waiting for 3 months.

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I'm off to Oklahoma City next week for ISI. We'll be planning a brand new project. To mark this momentous occasion, I just bought 2 new Italian suits. What's happening to me?

www.menswearhouse.com

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On Monday, I started back with FSU distance learning. I'm registered for 12 hours (4 classes). After this semester I will have 15 hours (5 classes) to go. Graduation is almost here.

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On the way to ISI this morning, my bike rolled over to 1300.

Tonight starts a three day weekend for me. I left work early. I just couldn't wait for the weekend to start. It was just one of those weeks. I'm going to start of the weekend at a Jacksonville Suns game. This weekend is huge, because it's the last weekend before the FALL 2003 Semester Starts at FSU.

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