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well, here are the pics for the one or two of you who read this page, and haven’t already seen these pictures on facebook.
Cliff in the typical Korean pose.

Me pontificating about the great accomplishment.

Formed up with all the dirt inside.

Forms are off, chicken wire’s on to hold all the topsoil in the correct shape.

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well, my last post was one of elation over the fact the penguins had advanced to the third round of the nhl playoffs against philadelphia. well, we smoked them in 5 games to advance to the finals for the first time in 16 years. we were playing detroit, who i hate b/c of [...]

so it’s been a long ass time since i wrote anything substantial, so here goes.  i guess.
well, my parents were out here for a week in the middle of september.  they stayed at our place (our first guests!).  it was a good time.  since they didn’t have plans the whole time, and since bj was [...]

Well, yesterday I finally took the time to upload some pictures of the house to my flickr page.  So either click the link to the right, or follow http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_der  These are pictures on the day we took possession.  Since then a lot’s been painted and just plain ripped apart, so when I get back to [...]

welp, it’s another week gone by, and i’ve been a lazy bastard and not posted anything. well, last weekend bj and i went to edmonton to watch the u20 world cup going on there. it was pretty fun. we saw new zealand vs. mexico and canada vs. congo. canada lost 2-0, [...]

well, this afternoon we had a couple house inspectors come in to check out the house.  they spent a couple hours going all around checking stuff like the furnace, water heater, attic, roofs, electrical wiring, plumbing, etc.  so bj and i showed up when they had finished and they said that it was in the [...]