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Craigslist Scammers
I’ve listed a couple of things on Craigslist recently. I generally prefer selling on Craigslist because its free, but you do have to deal with scammers. Generally my policy is to avoid them, but this week I decided to let the story play out just to see what happens. The “person” that wants to buy [...]
Getting Hitched
After four years I’ve finally asked Liz to marry me, and she’s said yes. We’re so excited to be coming together. I won’t spend too much time talking about it here, because we have our own website, ChrisnLiz.com. The story of our relationship and all wedding details will be posted there.
Understanding the Meltdown
My brain has been spinning a lot of cycles on our great nation’s economic downturn. I’ve come across a couple of things that have helped me understand what’s going on economically. Maybe they’ll help you, too. First, the blog The Baseline Scenario has a lot of great explanations and a healthy dialogue about what has [...]
Important Degree Candidate Information
From: UT Registrar’s Office To: Chris Leonard Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:03pm Subject: Important Degree Candidate Information AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SPRING 2009 DEGREE CANDIDATES Our records indicate that you are a degree candidate for graduation at the conclusion of this semester. Please review the following information that appears on your record and [...]
Doctor Visit
This morning when I woke up my arm was still bugging me. This morning marks four days in a row, that qualifies for a doctor visit. Its been so long since I’ve been to see a doctor that I no longer have a primary care physician, so I called my insurance company today to help [...]
Pinched Nerve
Early Friday morning I was laying in bed, in that kind of half asleep, half awake state. I moved to stretch out my arms over my head, just like I’ve done a million times before. Before I even got my arms stretched straight, a surge of pain shot up from my shoulder to my hand [...]
200+ MPG
Its been too long since I’ve written. I’ve had a few posts rattling around in my head for weeks, but no time. Such is the life of a working student. My mind is still consumed by fuel efficiency and energy consumption. I’ve had a handful of great conversations with other engineers, there are definitely some [...]
Washington Wedding
We returned from Seattle late last night, and man what a trip. I loved everything about it. The weather was perfect. It did rain, but nothing serious, and the sky opened for warm sunny days on both Saturday and Sunday. The terrain is incredibly beautiful. The people are friendly. The whole weekend was amazing. And [...]
Bainbridge
We’re in Washington this weekend to celebrate marriage with our friends Joe & Blythe. We flew into Seattle on Thursday morning, and we are having a great time. When we arrived we went straight to the Pike Place Market. We got lunch at a deli that overlooks the bay, then walked through the market to [...]
Use Your Web
I just read an article that lists Firefox extensions that are supposed to save you time. Some of these are nice tips that genuinely could save time. I personally don’t like loading up Firefox with plugins because it becomes another list of things to manage. I like simplicity. Many of the things listed in the [...]