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Introduction Have I warned you that I am an engineer? If not, consider yourself warned.  A long time ago in place not too far away, I learned about the Theory of Constraints from a book: The Goal. The mantra of the book was an application of Carnot's Second Law of Thermodynamics (also known as entropy) to management philosophy. It's ...

Victim: Sugar Rabbit; Age: approximately 4 days; Eyes: dark; Skin: brown; Height: 2'' and 3'' (respectively, post-crime) Suspect: Riley Cooper Leonard; Age: 1.5 years; Eyes: shifty and innocent all at the same time; Skin: tan; Height: 31'' On the morning of 8 Feb 2009, the suspect was caught Rabbit-handed - holding pieces of Sugar Rabbit in ...

Happy Birthday Boof! I'm a little late blogging this - Riley's first birthday was last Sunday! Here we are on the big day: We wore our spiffy new orange-ish colored shirts and khaki pants to church Sunday morning to celebrate. Why orange-ish? Not sure. Christy dressed Riley and I matched him. Manda gave me a Hokie-colored polo shirt for ...

I was surprised last night. Andrew Duthie - aka TBDDEOTP (The Best Damn Developer Evangelist On The Planet) - called me a few weeks back and said ''Let's have dinner, and bring your family. In hindsight, I should've suspected something but I didn't. We set up a dinner meeting at Maggiano's Little Italy in Short Pump. Christy and the kids all ...

Well it's official. The listing for the house is live. That's not our house in the background, it's our neighbor's. But that is our driveway. The house has everything I was looking for when I buy a house: Close to town but not in town. Quiet neighbrohood. Land. This place has 3 acres. High-speed internet access. I have 10M ...

I replaced the storm door out back this afternoon. It was my first storm door replacement. I'm happy with it. We're fixing up the house to sell it so we can move to Atlanta! Anyone want to buy a 4 bedroom cape cod in Farmville, VA sitting on three relatively rural acres? :{> Andy

It's Father's Day 2008 - officially! I feel like every day is father's day. I'm very blessed to have five wonderful children. I'm proud of each one of them, and proud to be their Dad. Manda, Tim (my favorite son-in-law), and Penny took us all out to brunch this afternoon at a snazzy restaurant on the Appomattox River in Farmville. It was very ...

We finally managed to get everyone together for a family portrait! Penny and Manda are in the back, Christy is in the middle with Stevie Ray and Emma Grace on her right and Riley Cooper between her and some old fat guy with a fu. What a cool Father's Day gift! The funniest thing about this next series of pictures (of just my five children) is ...

More for the ''Every day is father's day'' category. Me and the boys...   Riley fading fast... And my shirt is still wet from bath time! Every day is father's day. :{> Andy

Stevie Ray and I went fishing today - and this time we took Emma with us.   Continuing a proud family tradition, I told her she needed to ''hold her mouth right'' to catch fish. This is how she holds her mouth when she's catching fish, she says. She has a Disney Princess fishing pole, and was so excited when I returned from Walmart ...