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I can’t believe we’re already more than half way through September. That brings my time in Hawaii thus far to 4.5 months. It simultaneously feels like no time at all and something approaching forever. Before I know it, it’s going to be 2012. I know a lot of people that say that they’d miss the [...]

I’ve been taking video while snorkeling for a little while since I got my GoPro HD Hero. I decided to start actually processing it and put together this compilation of green sea turtles. It’s “long” (around 10m), but I’ve happily watched it a few times. As I start taking more video, I’m sure I’ll be [...]

We’ve been in Maui for about 4 months now. We also just had our first extended visit from friends, which was great. Not only was it really good to see familiar faces from home, it also gave us a lot of experience with helping people plan their time and figure out what to do while [...]

I spent last Friday through Sunday on Oahu. It’s the first time I’ve been on Oahu since 2005. Despite this, I wasn’t there for sightseeing, I was there to play Magic — as in, Magic: the Gathering. Yes – that means that I boarded an airplane and flew through the air in order to play [...]

I spent 4 days in North Carolina visiting mom. I got back on Monday. Today’s Thursday and I’m back in the air heading to Portland. Turns out that after I booked my time for North Carolina, I still had almost two weeks of vacation that I needed to take or else I’d lose it at [...]

Spent a week in Portland, OR visiting Nick and Joe. The break from work was very needed and it was great being able to relax. I left with a decent amount of congestion that made decent into PDX very uncomfortable. My sinuses didn’t want to calm down so I couldn’t equalize without a lot of [...]

I’m flying BOS to PDX via Alaskan and they have wi-fi on the flight. This is the first time I’ve been able to partake in in-flight internet and it’s simply awesome. The only said thing is that they don’t have power – so when my battery dies, that’s that. I’ve dialed down as much as [...]

I have to say, traveling with an iPhone is pretty damn awesome. There’s very little that I couldn’t do with an iPhone that I do on my laptop. If I was so inclined, I could make this post with my iPhone, but I just happen to be on my laptop and it’s that much faster [...]

No work for about 2 weeks. Nice. Tomorrow I fly out to Wilmington, NC for a few days. I’ll be back in Boston for two days. Then I’m leaving for Portland, OR on the 10th, returning on the 18th. It’ll be nice to get out of Boston for a bit. The real stress will be [...]

I’ve been super busy lately and haven’t been updating like I should be. The week of 12/8 I was nighttime upgrader and I was scheduled to work the weekend of 12/13. That got bumped, but completely ate my Friday night. Then from 12/18-12/25, I’ve been on-call, which means 24-7 support coverage by phone. I also [...]