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When things are complicated, simplify

What do you do when you are overwhelmed with stress and pressure and immediacy?  It’s a question that I try and evaluate occasionally to see how my opinions change. These external forces can come at you from many different avenues.  Work, family, kids… all the usual suspects.  Everyone needs something from you now so how do [...]
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wow

so my previous months worth of postings kinda sucked, nothing really interesting there. I think i might switch gears and maybe talk about music? I’ve been really into a lot of new stuff lately and it might make sense to talk about it a bit on my oft neglected blog? we’ll see
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Claire Nora Jones

Born October 22, at 8:59pm. 8lbs even!
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R.I.P, Lloyd Alexander Jones

My grandfather died this past Wednesday October 18th. This is the first time I have lost a very close family member, the first time I have really been touched by death. I have been fortunate that up until this point all my grandparents have been alive and relatively healthy (they are all in [...]
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week #2 of waiting for a new phone

As a part of work it started to make real sense for me to get a blackberry. We offer 24/7 support but we don’t all want to be chained to our desks makes sense, right? I just switched to rogers about 8 months ago, because it hasn’t been a full year I am not technically [...]
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fall winter time in canada

my mom just sent me these pictures (she lives about 2 hours north of toronto)
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this week has been a crazy week

my (very) pregnant wife fell down the stairs thursday night, causing quite a scare. a very close friend is having a really hard time with some things work is insanely great and keeping me insanely busy (good thing) some other projects that i have been working on in my spare time might be coming to fruition! and [...]
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slow news?

not likely, but I’ve been busy at work doing a product release… it’s a stressful and busy time for sure. new baby is coming in less than a month to, which keeps both of us busy with all kinds of domestic duties. ugghhh it feels like this post is being forced out, I wish this one came [...]
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days go by…

that didn’t seem like 2 weeks? geez i’ve been busy i just realized now that is has been a couple of weeks since updating. what’s been going on? big project at work moving servers at work 2 big projects outside of work baseball playoffs have begun for my 9 year old finally took a bit of time and didn’t work [...]
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a camping we will go

Well not me, my son actually. Today we are dropping him off for his first full week away at camp. This isn’t his first long stay away from home though, he’s been with his grandparents for a week here and there. But this will be the first time away from family. He’s going to Fraser Lake Camp, which [...]
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