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Can I pass this chance up?

Two of the items on my bucket list are to see a tornado with my own eyes and to go on a storm chasing vacation. I have been interested in the weather since I was in junior high. I love severe weather. I even went to college to pursue a degree in meteorology.

Today I found out that Reed Timmer & Joel Taylor from Storm Chaser are going to be in Hillsboro on Sunday.

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Our Government Hard at Work

While reading my tweets on my lunch break, I ran across a tweet by Nate Ryan about a House rep from MN proposing an amendment related to NASCAR.

MILITARY MUSIC/NASCAR — Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) has a pair of amendments that would prevent the military from advertising on NASCAR vehicles and limit to $200 million that can be spent on military bands.

Source: Politico.com

Seriously? Doesn’t the federal government have more important things to  […]

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My Bucket List – UPDATED

In no particular order …

  • see a NASCAR race in person
  • meet Dale Earnhardt Jr
  • meet Martin Truex Jr
  • own my own house
  • get married
  • have kids
  • visit Australia
  • go to Houston, TX to meet the people I follow on Twitter who live there
  • dip my toes in the ocean
  • create some sort of web application that catches on all over the world
  • fit into a pair of size 14 jeans again
  • visit Nashville, TN
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FedEx, Twitter, and Droid 2

What do these 3 things have in common? Well … the fact that the first is on the second is the reason I didn’t have to chase down the third. :biggrin: To elaborate …

I’ve been waiting for the Droid 2 to be released for 2 months. There were rumors all over the internet about when the release date was. Verizon finally announced on Aug. 10 that there would be a pre-sale on Aug. 11,  […]

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I had such high hopes

After I redesigned this place the last time (back in September, I had such high hopes of blogging more often and blogging about techie stuff. It’s now March, and this is only my 2nd post of the year, and no techie/geekie stuff. Yeah … I’m burning up the place. LOL

Since I’m back working again (just over 4 months at the new place) and coding every day, I have ideas race through my head  […]

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