We took advantage of the weekend without the kids (seems so long ago, but I've been really busy) by painting our living room. Let me start off by saying anyone who ever considers putting up a border or wallpaper in a room should be dragged out and beat with a large rusty wrench.

Our room only had a border on it, but the one wall with the gas fireplace might as well have been carved into the sheet rock. That wall alone took me 6-8 hours to do and the section with a border was only...

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I finished the design of the product page for our new hockey website (I'll post screen shots when we get the thing to a working demo stage) and I designed the look of the review page. Both relatively small projects in the grand scheme of the whole site, but every piece counts.

The rest of the week has been tied up with trying to deal with google to update all of our store listings (never fun dealing with a immovable giant that is purposely meant to be vague, spoon fed and anti-workarounds),...

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A friend of mine just recently got an offer for what might be close to his dream job. Working in his field (programming) on something he loves (fantasy sports). This got me thinking about myself and my ideal job. Honestly I wonder if I'm in it... Not many people truly love their job and look forward to going to work. At least not many people I know do. They find a job that pays them well enough and is tolerable, then they find reasons they keep going back to it (like the people, like the pay etc.)....

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What a great weekend. Got a few things done around the house on Saturday, watched a decent (but sad) movie that night with my wife. If you get a chance watch Bridge to Terabithia. It was really different than I expected but still very well done.

Yesterday (Sunday) we decided to take the kids out to the local town fair. We ended up spending the whole day, some but not a ton of money and took a bunch of pictures of my daughter on her first ever fair rides. While there I took her into...

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I work for a couple companies and therefore have a number of different tasks and styles to deal with. My current project is to design the face of our hockey company's internet retail site.

Not a huge deal, I've done it twice before for other hockey retail sites, but this one is different. We're looking curring edge more content and more information than previous sites.

Each time I start a process like this, it's easy to throw out a bunch of ideas and then fall short...

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