Continuing a trend started by David Burn, and capturing my year in travel. In 2011 I spent at least one night in: Omaha, NE (Home) Kansas City* Las Vegas Carroll, IA* San Antonio, TX Iowa City, IA * indicates more than one visit. It was a rather light year in travel for me this year, similar to my 2010. For 2012, I’m also keeping a living post for my 2012 State Log.

1.25 lbs chicken breast (2 large halves) 2 cups chicken stock 1 10oz jar turkey gravy (or 1.25 cups homemade gravy) 1 can cream of chicken soup 2 large potatoes 1″ diced 1 onion diced 1 tablespoon butter 3/4 cup frozen peas 3-4 carrots 1″ chop or 1/2 bag baby carrots, halved 1 can Grands Biscuits salt pepper 4 bay leaves Step 1 can be skipped and the breasts cooked in the slow cooker, but

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Before you click that submit button to sign up for Google Apps for your domain, burn this into your brain right now: If you ever think about letting your domain expire, this doesn’t destroy your Google Apps account. You must cancel this service as well. Any future registrant of your domain, if they determine you had Google Apps – and it is a trivial process – all it takes is a couple of days and

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2012 looks to be a busy travel year. How many states can I visit? I’ll keep this post updated. Nebraska – Personal & Professional HQ Iowa MinnesotaVery weird to be in Minnesota in January, seeing no snow, and a daytime high in 40′s. My brain is having troubles comprehending as the last time I was here in January it was -15 and there was more than a foot of snow on the ground. …more coming

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One of my public resolutions in 2012 is to take more pictures. Here’s my daughter welcoming you to the new year with a light saber, red/blue 3d glasses, a Cat-In-The-Hat Hat and a scarf:

I wrote down my goals for 2011 and published them here on the site. Outside of losing weight and getting back on the bike, I did fairly well; especially on the lower part of my list. Disconnecting was fairly easy and I even managed to do a bit of travel without lugging along the laptop and I routinely have email-free weekends. I spent a bit more time on design, but as I was going through

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It kind of creeps up on you. You are athletic, playing a few sports, living an active lifestyle, and then it happens. For me it was about 10 pounds a year over the last 6 years or so. I had a little brush with a heart incident about 3 years ago that should have scared me back on the right path. It didn’t. Over the course of that 6 years, my active lifestyle has dwindled

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I’ve changed web hosts. I’m now rocking this blog from WPEngine who specializes in WordPress hosting and is a frequent support of WordCamps around the country. I think this also signals a renewed focus to the site. While I have been posting a ton of curated content via Twitter, I do see a need for more long-form sharing.

This is a continuing series of misdirected emails to my inbox. Hi, you may be surprised to learn that we are downsizing and moving to Spain. We found this bung. at a silly price near Dolores (Alicante). It is a little inland, away from the concrete It is one of a group of 9 similar places all occupied by Brits. All legal, no further development allowed. It is very secluded and we drive up an

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updating the classic PEBKAC in honor of my neighbor who can’t work a cell phone. Problem Exists Between Phone And Chair In all seriousness, this is the cell phone he should own: