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This year I turned 40. <sarcasm=1>Nearly half a century! As I passed this milestone I started to think of all things I have not yet done and may never get around to.<sarcasm=0> This week My Morning Jacket released the audio of their concert at Red Rocks this year. I remember visiting Red Rocks  as part of an office trip several years ago and how much I would enjoy seeing a show there. So I added it to my bucket list. When I told my wife about this wish she informed me I cannot actively work to check items off of my bucket list until all the kids have moved out of the house. At least 8 years from now. So maybe, at the half century mark, we can make our way to Colorado for a concert. Until then, I will have YouTube.

Occasionally, I get emails intended for ANOTHER Eric Stewart. How do you handle these incidents? What should I do the next time I get one of these? This message has been sent through Gumtree mail, which keeps your email address private. We recommend that you always reply this way and be wary of anyone asking you to use their private email addresses. If there is anything about the message that you think is suspicious, do not reply and report it to the Gumtree team. We will get back to you asap. Hi Eric, Thanks for your interest but your CV has not been attached and has not come through to me. Please re-send. Cheers, David From: Gumtree Mail Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:06 AM To: redacted@hotmail.com Subject: Eric Stewart replied to your ad: Experienced garden landscaping labourer wanted Dear David, You have received a reply to your ad: "Experienced garden landscaping labourer wanted" posted in Gardening & Landscaping Jobs in London. From: Eric Stewart Hi, I ...

First of all I am not trying to make any excuses for my reluctance to obey the posted speed limit. I accept that I was driving faster than I should have. However, this $30 ticket cost me, in real cash paid, $203. That's right you math wizards, $188 in court costs. You REAL math wizards will see there is a problem there, more on that later. Maybe we should look at the other costs associated with my infraction. Here are just a few things that come to mind: I got about a dozen letters from law firms wanting to represent me in court. Each firm had to print and send the letter to me which costs them money. Since I decided to hire none of them, this is overhead. Does this get added to their fees to cover the expense? I spent a total of 20 minutes inside the courthouse. I went through a very efficient line only to get to, what I assume was, an assistant DA that asked what I would like to do about the ticket. I asked for it to be "reduced." This is what those lawyers wante...

We often drive to Michigan from our home in North Carolina to visit family. Before I even met Gina, she and her kids would drive back and forth. One day her son started singing John Denver's Take Me Home Country Roads as they crossed the border into West Virginia. Gina then remembered she had that song on a CD. From that point forward she would play the song whenever they entered WV. When I first made the trip I noticed we crossed over the Cuyahoga River in OH. I immediately thought of the song that shares the rivers name by R.E.M. I mentioned that we should make a CD of different songs representing the states we drive through. I finally did it for our last trip. James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind The Rosebuds - Esse Quam Videri Foo Fighters - Virginia Moon Gin Blossoms - Virginia America - Old Virginia John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth R.E.M. - Cuyahoga The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio Johnny Cash - Sa...

Occasionally, I get emails intended for ANOTHER Eric Stewart. How do you handle these incidents? What should I do the next time I get one of these? From: Random Lady Subject: Drama Queen Hi Stew, I'm doing ok... I can still feel I am crazy, but hopefully can pull it together. Just had a meeting with my new boss and things seemed to go well, I think I am nervous but excited. Should have called out, I'm doing nothing.         Somethings I'd like you  to ponder: Can you make either wedding? 6/6 or 6/20 - I think I am pushing for 6/20 (Random Lady's Friends Name)... While I know its not your fav activity, it means a lot to me and these people will always be my friends and while they can drive me crazy I love them a lot and its very important to me that you both can get along and find you great and awesome like I see you. I don't know if I will be going to Chicago, we might do another city, so maybe we wanna go?? My Reply Wow, I don't know what t...

This weekend, after our trip to Wilmington, there was laundry to be done. We loaded the washing machine and then headed out to the grocery store, as that was also a priority. Upon returning home the washing machine was still going. It has long been a joke that our washer and dryer work on "Gina Minutes" in which a minute is actually much longer than 60 seconds. The display showed "15" minutes remaining. Twenty-five minutes later the display read "5" minutes. Finally, when the washer was  done, there was an error code of "F 21." Looking on the internet I found this video After watching I opened our lint trap to clean it hoping to clear the error and return the washing machine back to a normal working state. It should be known that we live in a household of six. The kids are now aged ten, thirteen, thirteen and fourteen. You can imagine some of the things that were found in the lint trap.

I was asked by a co-worker to create some Revit families from CAD blocks. They are 2D plan representations of people. I asked the requester if she wanted them named any certain way because this is what I saw.