I don’t know what’s been up with me this weekend. It’s a 3-day weekend, but I’ve only left my apartment twice. I went to the car wash and Best Buy on Saturday and went to get a paper on Sunday. Saturday was sort of a nice day. It was windy, but it was warmer and sunny. Yesterday was nice too. But since it was Sunday (i.e. race day), I didn’t do anything. Today is a  […]

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I’ve been thinking lately about getting a portable hard drive that I can store my mp3s and pictures on. Right now, that stuff is on my desktop. Since I have my laptop and desktop networked, I can access them from my laptop. But I have to have the desktop on. And I’d rather not turn that on. It’s loud. And since the desktop is rather old (over 8 years I believe), it’s gonna die eventually.  […]

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Yesterday and today, I've been working on some changes to our discount system (at work). The majority of the changes dealt with the (mssql) database ... stored procedures and user defined functions (ufn). One of the changes was to get the shopping cart subtotal based on different criteria ...

• If the shopping cart had an order-level discount in it, and that discount was set up to override any discount exclusions that were set up, the

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I decided to buy myself some flowers at the grocery store tonite. I love carnations. These mini ones are adorable.

I need to play around with the settings on my camera more. I wish I had more photography experience to take advantage of it. But this pic still turned out really nice, in my opinion. […]

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This is one of the first pics I've taken with my new camera (Canon SD1100IS), outside of my apartment that is.

This is a picture from the weigh scale along I-29 just north of Highway 13 (in ND).

This image is 50% of the original. I love my new camera […]

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