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ah, paperwork

So after that whole getting married thing, I had to find out how to get Candice listed on my health insurance policy at work. So I fired HR a line last week, and the person who could answer me got back from vacation today.
I now have the form I have to fill out, but not [...]

Posted 31 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged:

i know you can do better than this.

Dear Amazon.com Customer,
As someone who has purchased books by Alan H. Strahler, you might like to know that “Wiley Plus/Blackboard Stand-alone to accompany Introducing Physical Geography (Wiley Plus Products)” is now available in paperback.
To learn more about Wiley Plus/Blackboard Stand-alone to accompany Introducing Physical Geography (Wiley Plus Products), please visit the
following page at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0470077573/ref=pe_snp_573
Uh, [...]

Posted 29 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (13) ° Tagged:

Eiffel Tower from the Arc de Triomphe

Eiffel Tower from the Arc de Triomphe Originally uploaded by mendel.
I’ve finally uploaded, titled and tagged all 150-odd images from our honeymoon in Paris! I’ll be writing up a description of the trip here soon, but you can see all of the pictures in this Flickr [...]

Posted 28 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , , ,

Wedding photos!

Candice and Rich Originally uploaded by mendel.
We received our DVD of photos from our wedding photographer earlier this week, and last night I finally finished uploading about 1/3 of them (just over 400 in total) to Flickr.
Clicking on the image above will take you to [...]

Posted 26 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

HOLY SHIT I’M MARRIED: the long version!

So yeah, that wedding thing. I got married! It’s crazy. I have a ring and a cute wife now. Crazy!
First, the executive summary: Everything went wonderfully. It was sunny and bright with a few clouds — a bit warm, but nearly everything was inside, so that was fine. But everything just worked. All of our [...]

Posted 21 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (9) ° Tagged: , ,

arr num num num

(Wedding/Paris updates coming soon, I promise! I’ve been busy at the Ottawa Linux Symposium this week.)
While I was gone, work replaced our old employee ID cards (magstripe for access control, visual ID at the front desk) with proximity cards and front-door turnstiles, since another company is going to be sharing some building space with us. [...]

Posted 21 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

Whee I’m married!

Candice and I are back from Paris and are still half-exhausted, so I’m not going to write a long post about the wedding and our trip right away. I’ll write those up in the next day or few.
The short version: The wedding went without a hitch and everyone had a blast, and our honeymoon [...]

Posted 18 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (23) ° Tagged:

HOLY SHIT

HOLY SHIT I’M MARRYING CANDICE TOMORROW.
This is a good thing, in case that wasn’t clear. And it’s all a big to-do list from now until then, so you probably won’t hear much from me until we’re back from Paris! HOLY SHIT

Posted 07 July 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (22) ° Tagged: ,