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Joshua on January 10th, 2008

Well, I missed it because I was in  Houston for the day working on some access control stuff.  Chuy’s the local Tex-Mex mecha had their annual January 8th celebration.  For those of you that don’t know January 8th is Elvis’ birthday. Chuy’s always has the Elvis Presley Memorial Platter as well as a few other […]

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Joshua on December 12th, 2007

Call me old fashioned, but I when I hear “tree lighting” I think of a tree (preferably a large evergreen of some kind) with lights on it (preferably in strands that wrap around the tree branches). It probably stems from growing up in Sedro-Woolley which has forever placed a large tree in the center of […]

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Joshua on December 11th, 2007

Wells Branch, the neighborhood we live in, does a lot of community events. They have potlucks and concerts and fishing derbies. We haven’t done any of those. We talked about them, but just never really went. They do a couple of very nice things celebrating Christmas. Namely that they put Santa in the Wells Branch […]

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Joshua on November 21st, 2007

  Last Saturday I had a 10 mile run scheduled. I was a little nervous because the week before I had barely completed a 9 mile run. I decided to go down to Lady Bird Lake (Town Lake) and run the trail there with the rest of the runners in Austin. I’d never been before, […]

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