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Congratulations to Dan and Lori on their recent engagement! Read about the proposal on Lori’s Xanga.

For those of you counting, yes, that is now four of my friends who have gotten engaged in the past two weeks.

In case you haven’t heard, effective Sunday, January 8, 2006, the cost of mailing a letter will increase 5.4% - from 37¢ to 39¢.
USPS - New Rates and Fees
If you have any old stamps laying around, you’ll need to get some 2¢ before you can use them.

Ever burn a CD or DVD and wish you have the actual cover art for the CD/DVD case?
If so, then here’s a nice site for you:
FindMyCover.com
Basically, the site queries Amazon.com for album image based on the search criteria and returns all applicable full size images. I looked up some lesser-known bands, even misspelling one, [...]

Yesterday was the first day of my new job as an Assistant Data Manager in the Data Transfers Department at PPD. So far, so good! My job involves managing data, as the job title suggests. More specifically, I’m responsible for ensuring that lab results, patient demographic information, etc. are clean and ready [...]

You’ve probably seen those top of 2005 lists everywhere. Well now it’s my turn
Note that the items aren’t in any particular order and that some may not have been released or published in 2005 - they may be from previous years - but are on the list because I “discovered” them this [...]

Congratulations to Patrick and Amber on their recent engagement! Patrick proposed on Dec 28th, Amber’s birthday, and she said yes. I wish you both the best as you enter the next phase of your lives!

For those of you counting, yes, that is three of my friends who got engaged within a weeks’ time…

In January 2005, I posted some goals that I wanted to achieve for the year, thinking that publicly stating them would help hold me accountable and be mindful of them. I wasn’t quite as successful as I had hoped, but I still liked the idea of giving monthly updates as a way to track [...]

2005 has come and gone. Time for one final checkup and a grading on how I did with my goals for the year.

Find a job
Score: A (details) - Found a job in March, got a promotion and raise, then made a horizontal and vertical move within the company.

Find a church
Score: [...]