Category Archives: Personal

Personal stuff about me.

A lazy July 4th 2008

Ah, nothing better than a 3-day weekend.  Well, that’s not true.  I do appreciate the rare 4-day weekend (e.g. Thanksgiving.) Yesterday, due to unforeseen circumstances, I ended up working from home.  There was an early dismissal, but it didn’t matter … Continue reading

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Joel’s Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Ever heard of Emotional Intelligence (EI)? We had an interesting all-day session on Wednesday at the office about EI. Turns out that my social style is “The Expressive Style.” I found the session useful, but similar to a class I … Continue reading

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Horny Cats

As much as I like cats, for the past few weeks, this very vocal, possibly horny, tomcat walks around our neighborhood and yowls for a long while. I dunno, maybe he’s lonely, or Timmy is stuck in a well, or … Continue reading

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Site updates, watching TV, and living with fish

Ah, the weekend has finally arrived. I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I converted the April and May 2008 galleries. You know, I haven’t really heard from anyone about the redesign. If I stay up working on this site, … Continue reading

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Josh goes to preschool, and George Carlin died

Ready for the big news? Josh has moved up to Preschool. More big news, and I’ll credit my wife. Josh is nearly potty-trained. It’s been nearly 2 weeks, but he’s wearing “big boy underwear”, and he hasn’t required a diaper … Continue reading

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Joel is finally redesigning his website

Has it really been nearly 6 years since I started joelipe.com? Really? Six years? No wonder I’m so tired. I have some good, better, and best news. Good news: I’ve started working on the last 20+ days of photos since … Continue reading

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A little bit of everything

What a busy few weeks it has been. I recently upgraded to Firefox 3, and it’s pretty good so far. I installed a cool extension called PicLens which lets you view photos and movies in a free-flowing wall of media, … Continue reading

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Sunday, June 8th 2008

We finally finished watching Good Night, and Good Luck starring an all-star cast — David Strathairn, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr, etc. It was a little slow, but a decent movie. Did I mention that our gas stove … Continue reading

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Sunday, June 1st 2008

So tired. This past weekend was busy, to say the least. First off, it was “the Mancation.” My friends Doug, Paul, and Sean, and I traveled to NYC for a weekend in the city to hang out with each other … Continue reading

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