Philip and Colleen’s Blog
Project Management
I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, but I’ve ended up working every day so far. As a project manager, when things blow up, you have to get involved even if your team isn’t responsible. Several of my projects have found themselves in various states of emergency over the last couple weeks. The good news is that I secretly love emergencies.
Want to see a graphical representation of a typical project? Here’s a picture that’s been passed around my team at work:
Disclaimer: My team always delivers
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First Non-Adjacent-State Family Visit
My Dad and Karen came out from New Hampshire to visit us a little over a week ago. It was the first time we’ve had anyone from my family visit (they’re all from non-adjacent states). I took a couple days off of work so we could spend time together. We spent one day doing nothing, [...]
Best…Gift…Ever
January 21, 2009 - 8:47 pm
Tags: Colleen, Funny, Philip
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I was browsing around the internet a couple weeks ago and stumbled across a website that had a sale price and free shipping on custom-printed glasses clothes.
$0.99 and 2 weeks later the package arrived from Hong Kong ($4 shipping had been paid by the sender).
There are at least three reasons why this is the best [...]
Christmas Lights for Busy People
December 14, 2008 - 10:35 pm
Tags: Christmas, Funny
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One of my coworkers sent an email to me describing his friend’s Christmas lights:
I’ve been CRAZY busy this year, but for the sake of my granddaughter, I decided to put up holiday lights!!! So I finally got it done last night. While I’m not one to toot my own horn (toot toot) I [...]
If We Lived in Springfield
July 6, 2008 - 2:37 pm
Tags: Colleen, Philip, Springfield
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After playing with Joe and Casie’s Wii this weekend and having so much fun with making goofy and freakish mii’s, we ‘Simpsonized’ ourselves at http://simpsonizeme.com
I Broke my Hand – I’m Healed
May 10, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Tags: Exercise, Krav Maga, Philip
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I’m a really bad blogger. For those of you who don’t know, I broke my hand 2 months ago during my Krav Maga training. It was the perfect mix of stupidity, chance, and the fact the other guy was 70lbs heavier than me. I had a cast put on a couple days after it happened. [...]
Working Out – Learning New Skills
March 11, 2008 - 2:05 pm
Tags: Exercise, Krav Maga, Philip
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So, I’ve been working out here in Minneapolis since the beginning of December. It started off slowly with some light weights and running for a total of about 3 hours per week. Well, since then one of my coworkers and I have begun working through a 9 week plan he found in a book he’s [...]
Birthdays, Tours, and Guitars
October 28, 2007 - 4:01 pm
Tags: Birthday, Colleen, Peg, Philip, Segway
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Two weekends ago Colleen and I took my mom on a Segway tour of Minneapolis as an early birthday present (You can’t Segway in late November!). The tour was led by Human on a Stick, and lasted about 3 hours. We got to ride around the banks of the Mississippi and took a stop off [...]
More Laughs From CuteOverload
October 26, 2007 - 4:10 pm
Tags: CuteOverload, Funny, Videos
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I guess you could just go to cute overload and I could stop the lame posting of posts but here is another funny video anyway. I promise to start balancing out the laziness of these last two posts with more original postings in the very near future. I hope you laugh as much as I [...]
A Bike Tour
September 19, 2007 - 4:22 pm
Tags: Bike, Colleen, Philip
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Last Sunday Phil and went on a bike tour of the downtown Minneapolis area. From the description we thought it would be about 20-30 people and a tour guide. What we found when we arrived at he Walker Art Center (the start point of the tour) was several thousand people.
I guess they meant tour as [...]
Information Superhighway
September 13, 2007 - 4:29 pm
Tags: Colleen, Internet
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We are finally connected to the World Wide Web again. I felt strangely isolated without it, which kind of scares me. I am almost done unpacking the apartment but we still have a couple of things to bring up from New Ulm. The last few weeks have been really stressful and weird.
I really miss everyone [...]
December 24, 2008 - 11:31 am
Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.