From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Taking advantage of the pollen

March 27, 2010
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Spring is in full bloom in Bakersfield, and you can tell by the number of times we’ve sneezed today alone. The heat feels nice after a cold wet winter. The water is doing wonders for the greenery in and around the city.  A half-hour drive in any direction leaves you in rolling green hills rather [...]

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Weddings mean shelf building

March 7, 2010
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Getting married nowadays means you are required to register at retail locations and pick out stuff you wish you had. Not that you necessarily need, or even want. But everyone says it is a faux pas to ask for cash. So, as any new couple did we registered for a set of pots and pans. [...]

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Cupcakes and philodendrons

March 3, 2010
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There’s a small container of cupcakes on the table. I made them last night. They aren’t frosted and are hermetically sealed in a cake-carrying plastic container which I inherited through marriage. Part of the large dowry consisting of furniture and baking items that never quite made it on my various moves around the country. Among [...]

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Pac man spaghetti.

March 2, 2010
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Pac man spaghetti., originally uploaded by staticantics. Leftovers ended up looking like pac man and I snapped a photo. This was more an experiment in using flickr’s interface for blogging and how many steps i would have to go through to get a cell phone picture blogged.

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Welcome to chrisdaines.net version 4.0

March 2, 2010
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It has been a great time having my own Web site over the past 7 years.  And recently I moved over to an entirely WordPress driven site. This allows me to manage all of my content via php and css, without having the hassles of developing entire new sections. It also means I am able [...]

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