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2009 was an eventful year - so eventful, in fact, that I practically *forgot* I even had this blog.  I posted once in January, and that was that.

2010 *will* be an eventful year - I've bought a new home with my best friend, fallen in love with an amazing girl, grown my business by leaps and bounds, and have a whole series of new challenges ahead - and it only makes sense to reboot this blog and start documenting said adventures!

I'll likely create a new layout for this blog to mark the occasion, but that's certainly not a priority so don't get your hopes up.

And for everyone who's wondering - I haven't forgotten about CoHLCD, and I've finally located my backup of the last functional source code.  I *hope* to have a v2.0 release in the next month, though my current workload might cause problems there.

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Well, my G15 Refinishing is now on hold indefinitely. Somehow, the Numpad Enter key, which was (along with every other key) soaking in a jar of water to release the paint thinner, turned into jelly and puffed up. The other keys, which all had the identical treatment, remain unaffected.

I'll probably look for a used/broken G15 or G11, and just swipe the keytops from it. However, this definitely pushed this to the end of the project list.

Sheeb's Tau Battlesuits are nearly completed, as is the Necron 'Hand of Despair' Terrain piece. I'll be making some related terrain pieces soon, and creating templates so others can make the same Hand.

I'm going to be out of town all weekend, so the list itself won't really get knocked down all that much for a while. Ah well, I deserve a *few* days off

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After soaking the Keys in Brake Fluid all night, and giving them a vigorous scrubbing this morning, maybe 30% of the paint has come loose - and that's being very generous. I'm back to looking for another method of paint stripping to get the Keys down to their transparent plastic bases.

On top of that, I had the brilliant idea of giving the main plastic pieces (which were spraypainted with Krylon Fusion yesterday) a quick Clear Coat. Bad idea. It caused a fair bit of the Krylon Fusion to bubble up, and now I have to strip the paint off these as well.

So basically, the only part that's gone right in this whole project has been replacing the Blue LEDs with Red Ones - assuming you don't count the small soldering iron burn I self-inflicted. Hopefully this project turns around soon!

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After a few hours of humming and hawing over Wordpress Themes and Plugins, Our Home Cookbook is now online. Though I did manipulate the theme a fair bit (and intend to do so more later), credit for the original design still needs to be given to BrightCherry Web Design.

Now I just need to give my mom a quick tutorial on blogging with WordPress!

As an interesting side note, I found a small bug in my 'Display Category Children' sidebar widget, which I resolved as well. I may end up releasing this Widget soon, since it can be rather helpful, despite being really simple.

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Ok, so it's been WAY too long since I've written anything on my blog. Frankly, summer has been a crazy and eventful time of year so far, and I just haven't felt any particular urge to write about it.

That said, I heard a bit of news on the radio today that, while upsetting, just made me realize how good we have it here.

Yesterday, the City of St. Catherines experienced its first homicide of the year. Just a few days shy of August, and there's only been ONE murder in a city with a metropolitan population of over 300,000.

I don't think I'll lose any sleep tonight.

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