tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86256982009-02-21T03:19:01.832-06:00Tjoenoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625698.post-1164652255077297332006-11-27T12:26:00.000-06:002006-11-27T12:48:28.216-06:00

Parents Go Wii!!

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A giant THANK YOU goes out to those that donated to this wonderful charity. The Ronald McDonald Houses Charity is a fabulous group and deserves all the help they can get.Results:The Homewood ATA = $2,217.16The Darien ATA - $1,400.00 (rough estimate)Total for Greater Chicagoland ATAs = over $15,000 !!!!!We presented the grand total check to Ronald McDonald at our tournament last weekend (Nov 5,

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Our taekwondo organization is trying to raise money to help rebuild the Ronald McDonald House that was destroyed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.Many of the Chicagoland schools are doing a special event (our school's is this weekend) that we are calling "Kicks For Katrina". We have a modest goal of 500 kicks during the event.... now, 500 kicks is nothing for some of us, but it is quite a

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I had my final certification camp this past weekend, and, after weeks of nervousness, sweat, worry, doubt, anxiety, etc., I went to camp for my final physical requirements and to take the most nerve racking test I've ever been a part of in my life.I've been ready for all the physical stuff forever - although it was more exhausting than I was ready for ;) But the scariest part of the entire

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Our friend, GrayWolf, of StreamingSoundtracks.com and from his famous Blog: www.wolf-howl.com, has made a wonderful book explaining all of the great things about Disney World that you wish you knew BEFORE you went there.Check it out here: www.wolf-howl.com/2005/05/free-disney-travel-book.html

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You can WIN the Star Wars EP3 Soundtrack by promoting this event. Simply make a message about this event in you BLOG or Website, then post the URL to that message to the comments section at the bottom of this SST page.Don't forget to go to www.StreamingSoundtracks.com (SST) and listen to the Listener Rated number ONE Soundtracks station at Live365.And be sure to listen to the entire EP3

Tjoenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8625698.post-1110290633518918722005-03-08T08:03:00.000-06:002005-03-08T08:03:53.516-06:00

Panoramic view of my desk and window. Click image for full file (7meg). Funny, when I'm sitting in the middle of all this, it doesn't seem as messy it looks from here.  

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okay, here's the pizza. 

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pizza lurking. okay, it turns out it's kind of hard to see the plate of pizza on the left, on top of the material I'm studying, in front of and next to my various PCs - both of which have SST on them. 

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This one is in honor of Saffron becoming an Admin at SST. Well, we didn't have ribs, so a hotdog had to do :) 

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At Six Flags Great America (Chicago) a few years ago. 

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Closer view of the main bird feeder.

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A Cardinal at the back of the feeder, a Sparrow at the front, a Mourning Dove (one of a dozen that hang out here) is on a back branch, and the tree is littered with many Sparrows and Juncos. There have been days when there were easily more than 100 birds at my tree. It is common to have Cardinals, Blue Jays (at the same time too), Robins, 4 or 5 different kinds of Sparrows, Juncos, Chickadee's,

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A Mourning Dove (biggest), a Junco (close to tree), and a couple of Sparrows.

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View from my desk outside my cubicle's window.

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It's Official! I got my Black Belt last week!It was a wonderfully magical night and the speech that Master Barnum gave brought tears to a few eyes in the place, including mine :). During the event I even had my own cheering section. My wife and kids were cheering me on, but many of the parents their know me and know they all started cheering and chanting too - it was so fun. I've known all of my

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Just for fun - 2005 01 06. This is a screenshot of our Office's video camera system (we also do security). Our parking lot (left images) was just plowed 30 minutes ago (we all had to move our cars for the plow truck). I should have taken a "before" picture - there was about a foot of snow in the lot and some people couldn't get their cars all the way in. My car is shown in the red box - I just

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The Wrigley Building - my huge project this fall/winter. In addition to their heating and air condtioning, we are now controlling all of their exterior lighting including their new LED color lighting system at the top of the tower. 

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There are multiple levels of lighting (street, roof, and tower) with a total of 30 zones of lights controlling 279 bulbs for close to 300,000 watts of lights. 

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As the Asian death toll now passes 80,000, I find that I still can't find the right thing to say about all of this. It is a horrific catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. As I continue to struggle with my own beliefs of faith, or lack there of, I find that this event, along with so many other heinous disasters and conflicts in history, further cement my more recent beliefs: We are alone.

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Back side of "Basics" pumpkin. Note image of the front in the window above. 

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Back to basics... sort of... 

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Back to basics... sort of :) 

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Our 3 pumpkins - 2004. Same as other one but the "cat" in mine is an outline now instead of open. 

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Our 3 pumpkins - 2004. Randi's is on the left (note frankenstein scar), Nick's is in the middle, the front of mine is on the right. Note the window shows the backs of them. Randi's says DOOM! 

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