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Not to be confused with South of Market in San Fran, Reston Town Center is getting it’s own SoMa area soon with a load of new restaurants and shops. After doing a little digging I’ve found a list of new places coming soon.

The Counter - Voted in GQ as one of the “20 [...]

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Funny how instead of waking up to birds chirping for a new day, I wake up to the rumble of airplane engines. No longer is it guessing if it’s that’s a gold finch or a boat tailed grackle singing you a song, now it’s guessing if that’s a Boeing 747 or an Airbus A340 on [...]

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Friday will be the last day of owning my condo. It’s a bit bittersweet since it’s my first place and yet it’s sucking me dry each month.

Either way, closing is this Friday and I’ll be super happy when those doc’s are signed.

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Last weekend the Great Grapes! wine festival was held at the Reston Town Center. Jessi likes wine and I like to drink, so we decided to head over and check it out.
While not a huge festival, there was atleast 8 vineyards that we counted and visited (almost all but one since Jessi didn’t like [...]

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Not to rub it in hoover’s face, just wanted to see what my results were. I’m not happy with the upload speed.

Tags: speedtest, fios

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Sitting around indexing (still) my music from all of my CD’s this weekend, it dawned on me what I would really like to see product wise from Apple (or hell a 3rd party would be fine). An iTunes Server product.
Not like the iTunes Music Sharing thing that we have now, I’m talking a full [...]

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In case anyone is fishing for next year’s presents (hint, hint). I’d like to official state that I would like one of the new Denon’s that will be doing HDMI 1.3/1080p. This will go well with a new 1080p projector and PS3.
Currently Listening to Driveway Intruder by Dane Cook

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We bought the BowFlex to get in shape. I bought the BowFlex to get that Superman body I’ve always wanted. Hey, don’t laugh! Atleast it’s a goal.
So I’ve successfully completed 3 weeks of my 20 minute workout 3 times a week (that’s basically an hour a week). I’m only feeling slightly stronger and I [...]

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After watching this weeks Top Gear, Jessi and I are pretty much in agreement about what we should do with our condo’s.
Sell them both for as much as we can get and take the profit (assuming there are any) and get one of these:

In Grey. It has to be grey.

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So July 14th marked the end of my second stint (and my last) at PPC. It was an interesting ride. Much different then the first. I didn’t end up leaving on the greatest of terms with some people (most of the higher ups ignored me) but others were cordial and some even said they could [...]

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So I’m planning my grilling escapade for this evening and came across a few recipes that I like and a somewhat interesting take on how what you put on your burger says about you.

We have a friend named Paul “Q-Man” Watson who believes you can tell a lot about people by what they put on [...]

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Finally after 2 months of pulling my hair out, I have a working grill. No thanks to BBQ Galore (who I will not link too).
A little background, one of the great things about the new house is that we now have a deck. Having a deck also means that we have to have a [...]

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Home Theater Install 3?? What happened to parts one and two, you maybe asking yourself. Well, what happened to Leonard parts one through five?
Seriously, parts one and two are on Jessi’s flickr site.
Today marked the final phase of the home theater install. The sanding of the drywall plaster that filled the holes made by [...]

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Ahhhh.. the glory of home ownership. Not a new home like the condo’s. No a home that people lived in before you graced the place with your existance.
The previous owners of our home thought it would be really swell to put wallpaper up in the basement of the house.
Pink Pasley wallpaper.
Who does that [...]

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So one of the cool things about the new house was the ability for us
to build a small Theater Room in the basement. Actually that was the
whole plan from the begining when I saw that room.
Finally after a few weeks of waiting I got an install date from the Magnolia Home Theater guys. March [...]

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