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Joe

jurgenhadley

About Me

I work at a pretty cool place, called Erickson Retirement Communities, where I can do what I love doing: Using computers to help people do all kinds of stuff.I'm an uncle, and my niece Lauren is uber adorable.I got married on September 16, 2006 to the most wonderful woman in the world, Shannon, and now she's stuck with me forever.Life is going pretty good right now. My next goals are to lose about 50 pounds, get some technical certs, and catalog every episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple where the kids actually made it out of the temple!

My Interests

Music, Reading, Movies, TV, Having fun, collecting beer steins, and exploring outdoors. As for sports teams, BALTIMORE RAVENS, BALTIMORE ORIOLES. Ialso like the Baltimore Blast, though I don't follow them. Also, I love tinkering with stuff on computers. Click a little here, delete a few things there, and wha-la, Your Windows ME is now Mac OS X.

I'd like to meet:

Bill Gates...for a punch in the face over Windows ME
Elvis Grbac...for a punch in the gut because he sucks
Peter Angelos...for a punch in the arm for refusing to write checks with it
Chuck Norris...well, I wouldn't be able to punch him because he'd Roundhouse Kick me to death before I even blinked, so I'll just offer him a handshake

Music:

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Del Shannon, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Def Leppard, Weezer, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, The Clash, The Thrills, Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, Daft Punk, Fischerspooner, LCD Soundsystem, Rilo Kiley, Ozma, The Elected, Phoenix, Kings of Convenience, Elliot Smith, more to come later when forever is now

Movies:

Army of Darkness, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Red Dawn, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Saved!, Fight Club, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Better Off Dead, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Big Fish, A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, American Graffiti, Anchorman, Ray, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Garden State, The Boondock Saints

Television:

24, Heroes, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Lost, House, Jericho, Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Fairly OddParents, Spongebob Squarepants

Books:

I like a lot of them, but not enough to have a nice list.

Heroes:

Superman, Spiderman, Aquaman, Six Million Dollar Man, but never Batman (he's just a scientist with toys).And for the record, the coolest hero on Heroes is Hiro.

My Blog

The Big News

I did a longer entry for this, but it must've gotten eaten by myspace... PREFACE: If you are a family member of mine, please contact me before sharing this news...I have certain family members I want ...
Posted by Joe on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:00:00 PST

too lazy to think up a good subject

reaching the end of a week alone, while Shannon and Erin enjoy their cruise in Key West and Nassau (which is where I was about a year ago...although we only really passed through downtown Nassau comin...
Posted by Joe on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:39:00 PST

The Summer of Joe...

No, I'm not being egotistical and saying this summer is all about me.  But, all things considered, quite a bit has happened, even since the last post... I'm back in MD.  We bought a house in...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:42:00 PST

Catching Up

Goes without saying, I haven't really updated in a long time.  I still have mixed feelings about blogging.  On the one hand, I like updating friends with the ongoings of my life, since livin...
Posted by Joe on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:08:00 PST

Catchup in the Rye

cheesy, yes I know...Ok, so when I realized it'd been about 4 months since I updated, I felt horrible for ragging on others who were actually updating without me knowing it, saying I needed updates on...
Posted by Joe on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:58:00 PST

Phase Education: Complete

Tenativley, but seriously, I took my last final today.  I already have Bs in 3/6 courses, and I really don't expect to get anything lower than Cs in the rest, so that should mean I'M DONE COLLEGE...
Posted by Joe on Tue, 23 May 2006 12:29:00 PST

Half the equation is complete...

I got the job for after graduation, now I just need to get the graduation part done. Erickson had me in for an interview Tuesday morning, and didn't even let the day expire before calling me with an o...
Posted by Joe on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:29:00 PST

Orioles in full swing...

i know it might not stay this way, but damn if it doesn't feel awesome to be 2-0!!!!  It's the first time in 9 YEARS we managed to win our first two games.  GO O'S! Also, this guy is awesome...
Posted by Joe on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:27:00 PST

Jack Bauer's a BADD-ASSS...

yes, I spell that with an extra D and an extra S.  The D stands for DANGEROUS, and the S stands for....well, it stands for itself! Not sure what really got my attention on 24...I guess it's a com...
Posted by Joe on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:59:00 PST

Corporate Technology SUCKS

Steve suggested I try upgrading Firefox on friday.  I went to do it and something failed.  Now Firefox is gone completely.  When I asked what gives, Steve says apparently Comcast has li...
Posted by Joe on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:05:00 PST