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Wow… I got this new game called Dawn of War. It is a computer strategy game based on Warhammer 40K. The game is very addictive. I have had to limit my self to just one mission a night, in fear of not sleeping at all. The game is a 3D squad level combat game based in the far future. If you are familiar with the 40K universe, this game will really excite you. Imagine better action then the tabletop game. If you are a real time strategy game fan, this game is on par with Age of Mythologies but with tanks and rockets. The graphics are amazing. I watched a grot (small Ork) sit on a pile of guns and scratch him-self while the rest of his Orky friends pummeled my town. This game had me hooked at the intro movie. So if I do not post for a while … may be you should check to see if I have been sleeping.

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The world just got less funny.

The morning of Monday September 28th my uncle Phillip passed away after a battle with lung cancer. He will be remembered as a kind and funny man. He is survived by his wife Peggy of many years and their daughter Megan. He will be missed

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The Presidential election may hang on the probity of free and fare elections in Iraq and Afghanistan. This has been what President Bush has used the yardstick of his foreign policy. The question is will Novembers Presidential election pass that same yardstick.

Carter Predicts Florida Poll Will Again Be Flawed

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I was listening to NPR this weekend while running around. Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion was on. He was talking about reaching the time in his life that the tall trees of his life were starting to fall. That this was the time he realized that he had been living in their shade and it was time for him to provide shade to others. I not sure that is what he said but that is what I heard.

This has been a strange time in my life. For a while now, my parents generation have been passing away or falling in to illness. This has taken some getting used to. You see, I am from a family that lives forever. Most of my grandparents saw well into the other side of 80. Therefore, until I almost 30 no one other then a great-grand parent died. When you lose a great-grand parent it said but kind of expected. Now, uncles and aunts are starting to show signs of age.

These are the tall trees of my life. They have shaded my life. They have watched me grow up from a baby with big hands to the man I am today. I remember being a young man wanting to prove myself and find my own patch of light. Today, I have my own patch of light. After years of fighting for it, I now do not want to lose those tall tress that shaded me so I could get here.

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Heydan.com was down for a couple of hours today. In a testament to the global nature of our lives, there was a major fire in San Bernardino California. On the same block where my Web hosting company is located. The building lost power and apparently, the fire department would not let them back in the building to turn the backup generator on. Something foolish about lives being more important then e-mail. Shaa!

My hosting company (web66.com) deals with major and minor disasters and I never notice. Anyway, thanks once again for taking care of these things so I do not have to.

Correction, the fire was in a in downtown Baltimore, MD. Near the building, that houses the Network Operation Centers for a number of Internet Service Providers. This includes mine. The location is good because of its proximity to several major Internet pipelines including Level 3, AT&T, and Global Crossing converge. Early Monday morning, an underground fire caused damage to fiber optic cable that connects our building to other parts of the Internet.

Link to the fire

Not that any of this really interest any of you. I just found it very interesting that I have no idea where heydan.com is physically.

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I went to lunch with the dark side girl today. She is always good for a couple of good quotes. Therefore, here they are:

“I keep being caught in compromising situations with the wrong reading material. “ –Linnea

“Me getting married and having babies is fiction like me being a rock star.” -Linnea

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Well this was the week of wedding stuff. K and I went to a cake tasting yesterday. Now while this sounds like a lot of fun, it was not actually that fun. We did get cake, but only small amounts. We had to look at more cakes and decide on what the cakes were going to look like. We also made out most of the save the date cards. These cards tell people that are out of town when they need to be here. The actual invites will be sent out latter. This week we also got our rings, found a church, registered, started the looking for a house, updated out invitations list, and opened a wedding bank account. I think we are done with wedding stuff for this week.

A word about invitations; I love and adore all of you. Some of you may not make the cut. Right now, we have 230+ people on the list and we are not finished. While we feel loved, this is too many to fit in the space we have available, therefore some of you may not get to be there. It may be between you and my aunt at this point. Therefore, we are going to try to figure out who can make it and who cannot. K and I looked at the list last night and asked questions like… “Do we really need your brother to have a chair of his own? If he and your aunt time-share a seat…one of them will be up most of the time, right?”

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We have all been dancing around the subject. You see it on the street, you watch it on TV, and it is talked about it quite conversations in dark corners. It is time someone came out and said it. We are having unnaturally nice weather. Really, I am talking 'does not get this nice' kind of weird weather. Today it is going to be in the 80’s. Something is wrong. I mean my AC broke down in my car this spring and I don’t even mind, right now. Last night on the news they were talking about people actually being bugged that we have had so much rain and so little heat. Do they remember 2000? July 2000 had a low temperature of 79 degrees and it was 100 days of 100+. This is spooky. Grass is still like green and stuff. I think Texas arranged to have Florida scarified to the weather gods. Don’t laugh, you know we do it.

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I am designing on search algorthm for work. So I looked at the current king of searching google. In that process I can across the truth about google page ranking.

The truth about page ranking

The truth is out there... really out there...!

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Grandpa’s surgery is over. He is well and the doctors should have him up and moving around today. Mom has been with him the whole time. It does not sound like she has slept in a couple of days.

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