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Honeymoons are awesome; I should get married more often

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Sam

So I’m on the last day of my honeymoon. We took the train down to Miami, spent three days there, then went on a cruise to the Bahamas. Here are some things that are awesome about cruises:

  • Unlimited food
  • Unlimited ice cream
  • Unlimited loss of money

Okay, so that last one isn’t so awesome. But I do have good news: my credit card limit is only $13,000. Also, my equilibrium is so out of whack that my hotel room is rocking back and forth. Fun stuff.

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Tales from the Road: Nerd Travels

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Sam

So I’m writing from a room at the Hilton, somewhere in the northwestern part of the DC metro area. I’m here for a 5-day training course on the most exciting topic in this corner of the alpha quadrant: Oracle Database backup, recovery, and tuning. I mean, I can’t begin to describe to you the joy I am feeling right now.

Seriously, I’m not a huge fan of traveling or sitting in a classroom for 8 hours straight. Here are some things I don’t like about traveling:

  • Eating like crap for 5 straight days
  • Paying for Internet access
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