Tonight we purchased a Yamaha M404 piano, and it should be delivered tomorrow. Ana’s very excited that she’ll have a piano in the house of her own to practice and play on, and I must say I’m excited about it too. I love listening to the piano.
Category: General
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Sick
It has been a long time since I was last sick with flu-like symptoms. 4 years or so. It hit with a vengeance last night, whew! I only got a couple hours of sleep, and have spent the morning on the couch by the fire. Ana is also not feeling good, but its something she did to her back. She has been sitting down here with me with a heating pad on. Between the two of us, you’d think we were 150 years old the way we are moving!
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Cubs Tickets, II
Ok, I forced myself to stop. I have purchased 30 tickets today. Most are for other people that are paying me ASAP, but I do have 4 games (12 tickets) that are going to be sold.
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Chicago Cubs tickets
Today Chicago Cubs tickets are on sale online. As anyone who knows me knows, I am a Cardinal fan and hate the cubs. They have an online lottery and Justin wanted a little help, so I fired up a few browsers to see if I’d get chosen to buy tickets.
Yep, I now have 4 tickets to a Cubs vs. Cardinals game on Saturday April 8th! Per our agreement, Justin is going to buy two of them from me at face value. Now, do Ana and I want to make our first trip to Wrigley or sell the other two as originally planned???
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Stars
When I got home today, the orb was telling me that it was going to be clear and fairly steady skies for the evening. So, for the first time in several weeks I setup the telescope and spent some time outside. Was a nice relaxing evening, and I got to test out my new laser collimater. It did a very good job once I understood its quirks.
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Emily Nolting
My niece is now a week (and a day) old!
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Organizing
This weekend has been a slow one, with finally alittle taste of winter hitting Springfield. Since we’ve been at home all weekend, I’ve managed to get some cleaning an organization taken care of.
First up was to complete our taxes. Our refund was deposited, so I finished the TurboTax filing procedures and made appropriate copies (paper and electronic) of everything for archival. Feels good to have all of that paperwork completed and filed away.
Next up was general cleaning throughout the house, it looks much better now. We picked up another shelving unit for the basement yesterday and spent some time cleaning up this afternoon. The basement looks much better, one more shelf should get everything off of the floor.
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VMWare Server
Holy Cow, the rumors are true, VMWare has released VMWare Server for free! I hope we can switch to this at work, because Microsoft’s Virtual Server has some major issues and causes more headaches than it’s worth. We are already running one instance of GSX Server and it hasn’t given us near the amount of problems.
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Astronomy Class
The astronomy class I am taking has been going fairly well, even if it’s a little slow at times. Last night we were able to go up to the observatory and take a quick glance at the moon and Saturn. We were up there for probably a total of close to 2 hours, and it was a little cold. I may start bringing my warm Carhart coat with me to class on the chance we’ll be heading outside.
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Hospital
Ana and I are here at St. John’s Hospital waiting for our new Neice. My sister Teresa will, God willing, give birth to their first daughter Emily tonight.
Woo! Uncle Eric and Aunt Ana!
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