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Since I’ve posted up here. What’s been going on you ask?

Well….

I am finally working at a great place, springbox. I absolutely love it too! I’m surrounded by dynamic, passionate, and skilled people. Everyone here brings a great asset to the table and I truly enjoy coming to work everyday! Oh, and their work is pretty good too.

I am still rocking out crossfit, or rather sicfit as it is being called now. The dogs are happy, Amber is beautiful. And I bought a tablesaw. Hopefully the next post will be pictures of something I build!

Anyways, figured I’d open the door for a flood of new posts. Enjoy!

-E

Originally posted 5/04/2009:

So I did it. I sold my old trusty IBM thinkpad and purchased a 6 month old black macbook. Here are my first thoughts:

THIS THING IS AWESOME.

Other thoughts? Besides the obvious, I’m REALLY happy with this laptop. I bought a program called Parallels which basically is a virtual machine where I can run windows (any version) on top of the Mac OSX.

This means that I can have my trusty Visual Studio and MS SQL Server running on my mac. Woo Hoo!! This mac runs pc stuff way better than, well, my pc does. Crazy isnt it? Besides the expensive price tag (which I think now is TOTALLY worth it), I can’t really find anything wrong with this badboy. I upgraded to 4GB of RAM for $40 from newegg. This thing is a hoss.

Visual studio had one thing where I had to figure out – When you step into while debugging, the f11 button was set on mac osx to show the desktop. I went into system preferences and unchecked that as a default key, and whallah! I’m stepping thru just fine now.

Also, the fine folks over at zagg make an invisibleshield for the macbook too; keeping it ever so pretty.

So anyways, if anyone is wondering whether or not to make the switch, I say DO IT!!! It’s totally worth it! I love it

Here at the start on staten island. I’m glowing!

So freakin excited. The crowds are crazy. About to get corraled. Yipee!!!

This is awesome.

E

Oh, so if none of you are doing anything Saturday morning before ACL… come join me on my 20 mile run. See you there!

So, I received an email last night – about someone named Kali Gehrman that added me as a friend on Facebook. Kali, huh? Turns out Kali took it upon herself to add every Gehrman on Facebook as a friend in an effort to figure out who we were / if we are related. I actually admire her for doing this.

Ya see, Gehrman isn’t a very common name. I’ve often googled the name “Gehrman” to see who was out there. Of course, my blog comes up (hopefully it will be higher in the list after this posting). But I’m intrigued by the amount of other Gehrmans that are out there. For instance, there is Dale Gehrman, an artist. There is the Gehrman Animal Hospital in Minnesota. Jody Gehrman is an author. Steve Gehrman apparently runs a software company in California (being a techy apparently is a Gehrman skill). And don’t forget to check out the Gehrman Family Website (My family’s website, although a little biased towards my brother Scott).

Anyways, whoever all these Gehrmans are – The email from Kali definitely has gotten me thinking about whether we are all related from some distant distant past. Would be very cool if that was the case! I look forward to figuring this all out! I’ll let you know what I find.

Oh, and thanks, Kali. I dont know you…. But I think you’ve initiated something very cool!