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When you’re trying to break the perforated cardboard on a 12-pack of Diet Coke, and they just won’t break open to your fingers, I know your first inclination is to look around the immediate area for something harder than your fingers.  You want something tough and sharp, with which you can break the perforations.  The fondue fork laying on the counter is *not* the appropriate tool. Unless your goal is bathe your face in a refreshing spray of Diet Coke. Don’t ask me how I know this. Just take it on faith.

With my short vacation starting at 5pm tomorrow afternoon, I am spending the night before camping out at the office trying to get my major deadlines met. The only good thing about working really late, other than guilt free raiding of the office snack machine, is being able to jam my tunes. What do you do, however, when you don’t want to listen to *your* tunes anymore, and you want something fresh and tastey? Well, either Pandora or Last.fm will both feed your need! Following a post to Wil Wheaton‘s blog, I’m a new member of Last.fm… and really loving the music. I’m doing a bit-o-techno-europe tonight, pretending that I’m a rave-bound data-crunching club kid, but without the glow sticks or X. Slow Train – Trail of Dawn is my song of the moment. Check either of them out!

IMAGE:  I can’t even begin to tell you how hard I laughed when I saw this picture!  I totally forgot that Tommy took it, and now I have to pay the price.

We had a very nice weekend, that included having dinner at Humble Pie both Friday and Saturday night.  Friday, we joined Kurt & Elizabeth for a tour of a few local galleries and design shops before having dinner with them at HP.  Saturday we connected with more Flickristas at HP for dinner, then dessert at Krispy Kreme!  

Sunday we decided to celebrate our first anniversary at the same place we had bruch after getting married… 518.  The bizzare part came when I tried to park in our usual spot, and managed to brush the curb, dislodge the valve stem, and give the car a flat.  We called AAA and were on hold for about twenty minutes.  Then I asked Taryn to call them on the other cellphone.  I was still on hold, but they picked up her call in under 60 seconds.  I hung up, and 15 minutes later the guy showed up.  It took me longer to empty the back of the Escape to get to the spare, than it did for him to change the tire.  I was back at the dinner table before my food had a chance to cool off.  I was *very* happy with the AAA membership! 

Yes, you did read that correctly.  We have been married one year.   I have to admit that there was a time in my life that I thought of myself as a confirmed bachelor.  I am very very happy that I was wrong.  Our relationship, with all it’s ups and downs, has been the best thing that’s happened to me in a pretty happiness-filled life.  Thank you, Honey, for everything!

IMAGE: My Lovely Wife…