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Well, tonight was a special night. We had a double header in softball. We lost both games, that makes us 0-10 I think, we just can't seem to put it together. I however, had a great night. I hit my first home run, ever, in my life. I played ball as a kid up until 13, never ever hit one over the fence. Tonight I wasn't even trying, was just trying to go the opposite way, reached out and boom, off it went. At first I stood there, thinking wow. Then I thought, damn I need to run that might drop over the guys head. Then by the time I got to first it was dropping over the fence! That was our 4th run that game, we ended up losing 14-4. We've got two more games left, HOPEFULLY, we can get a...

I haven't woot'd in quite a while. Darn impulse buys. I just woot'd. Picked up a new Vacuum! It's robotic, and self charging, so hopefully it'll work well to keep the dog hair down around here. The thing we'll have to watch out for is how Pylon will react to it. I'm predicting he'll try to eat...

We've been busy here at work lately, Brian in particular with the newest side of our business. If you're looking for healthcare marketing solutions for your hospital or health facility check out our latest project here at Engage Software. We've also been expanding our DotNetNuke business, more on that later! Posted from...
If you're looking for some good Mexican food, DON'T go to Zapatas on Manchester Road! We, the office, went there the day they opened, for lunch, to give them a shot. The food was horrible, no one enjoyed their meals. I figured, maybe, just maybe, that was just a bad day to go, the first day a place is open. So, a month later, I tried it again last night. We went there for dinner. It was STILL HORRIBLE. The food is just very low quality, high prices and the chips both times tasted burnt. So, if you are looking for a restaurant on Manchester road for some good Mexican, I suggest trying one of the other places. Senor Pique's (sp?) down near Sulpher Springs Road is a good start, I've eaten there twice in the past two weeks and it's been great food and service both times. Don't eat at Zapata's, trust...
Google even tells me so! https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=excellent+programmer <--currently 5th on the search results for excellent programmer. I will be number one, I will be the most excellent programmer of them...
I'm not a huge fan of PETA and their opinions, but this story will probably be a big battle win. Summary, an 81 year old man found a mouse in his home. He was burning leaves out side, so he put the mouse in the leaves to dispose of him. The mouse ran back in the house, on fire, and set the house...
Christmas was good this year! Natalie and I both spoiled each other rotten! I just installer her new car stereo into the F350. The stock stereo was hurting! It only had AM/FM, no CD or Tape! I got her a nice Sony CD Player for the dash, two new kicker speakers for the front doors, and an XM Roady2 for the must have Satellite radio. There's no Sirius in this household, down with Howard Stern and Sirius Radio! I installed the CD player this evening and made sure everything worked. It's a very clean install, you have to love Crutchfield for including everything you could need to install a radio ordered from them. The new CD player went right in the old unit's place courtesy of the Crutchfield mounting hardware. I also picked up some fine jewelery from Krekeler Jewelers for Natalie's Christmas gifts. Thanks to Jeff for all the help picking a few nice things out!  Natalie spoiled me with some new Oakleys, a cool North Face Jacket, and the Klipsch floor speakers I'd been asking for! The new speakers sound amazing in front of the 50" plasma! I've ordered the Klipsh C-3 center channel speaker from Best Buy using some great gift cards I received. Sometime later this year I'll get the new receiver and 4 surround sound speakers to complete my new and improved home theater setup. My parents sent me money to purchase an aircompressor and some tools for the garage, so I was out looking at Sears today. I did realize however, I'm going to need to take the truck next time I go, as the air compressors won't fit in the 350Z! Thanks to everyone for the great Christmas. Natalie and I spent our first of many Christmas' together, hopefully next year we'll be able to see our parents though, it was my first Xmas away from my family :( More to come in...
If you want to live life on the edge, choose to live in St. Louis! https://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/0D1170CBA78D0F6F862570C0001BE022?OpenDocument St. Louis was rated as the 3rd most dangerous city to live in for the United States. That's great. I'm glad Missouri has a Conceal and Carry law nowadays! I've seen this crime first hand, I had my Camaro broken into while I worked downtown a few years ago. Car theft in the city is horrible, kids do it for fun, and then they don't get punished for getting caught, which doesn't really help to deter them from doing it...
So you're wondering how to get yourself an Xbox360 before Christmas? Here's a few tips. Take 1: On November 21st, head to your local Best Buy, Wal Mart or Circuit City, Target, Kmart. Take warm clothes, some food, and a comfortable folding chair, you're going to be there a while. Wait, wait, wait, until 8am on November 22nd. Go in the store and buy one! If you're lucky enough to be one of the few in line that will get one. Take 2. Bid on one on Ebay. Take 3. Try finding one on Black Friday. (yeah good luck with that.) Take 4. Wait till after Christmas!   Any of your own tips on how to find a 360 before Christmas? Post them...
On nightline tonight there was a story about a girl named Sarah Reinertson, she's 30, and only has one leg. She attempted the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii last year, she made it to the transition after the bike ride, but was 15 minutes too late to go on the run. The show is still on, but I believe she's going to attempt the triathlon again this year. It really makes you think about life when you see what she does. She's got this challenge she has to live with every day, and she has the drive to be able to compete in this hardcore...
CNN has an article about earthquakes along the New Madrid fault. It's an interesting read, though not likely. I guess I can say I'm just glad to not work downtown anymore! and I'll keep parking the Tbird in the carport and the Z in the...
Why in search results is this web page dropping????? Who is Chris Hammond? He's currently a 28 year old software developer in St. Louis Missouri. He likes photography, baseball, automobiles, autocross, and programming! Chris Hammond is really trying to bring his ranking up, thus you are reading this...
So this wacky Pet Store owner thinks he see's Satan's image on the back of a turtle shell, the only animal to survive a petstore fire last october. https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/21/evil.turtle.ap/index.html I think the guy is nuts, clearly the turtle shell has an image of Donkey from shrek on...
I love non-alcoholic egg nog. And now I love the McDonald's Egg Nog milk shakes!!!! I grabbed one yesterday, and had to stop by there on the way back from lunch today to get another one! Darn good stuff they have going on...
I let pylon out a few minutes ago, next thing I know I hear something weird squeeking outside. Looks like we got Rabbit number 2 tonight. He got one back in February I think, but it was still alive and kicking, and as far as I can tell once I put it outside the fence it left, or something else came and got it. The rabbit tonight didn't fare near as lucky. I went out there and it sounded like pylon had a toy in his mouth, I heard a clicking, well, that was bones.... Finally got him to drop the rabbit, which at first seemed to still be alive, though not moving. I sat him over the fence, went in and grabbed a flash light and some paper towels. As far as I could tell upon return he was dead :( poor little guy. I was afraid I was going to have to kill him myself, which I didn't want to...
What's the next best thing to being able to go to Ted Drewes for some custard? Being able to go to the Grocery store that is two minutes away to buy prepackaged Ted Drewes! I don't know why I didn't think about that before, but in the past week I think I've had Drewes 3 times, all from the Schnuck's right up the...
Scientists are predicting that MSH will blow sometime very soon. The forrest service's servers have been overloaded with all the activity this is generating on the internet. The following VolcanoCam page with images updated every 5 minutes keeps going up and down. If you get a file not found try it again...
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Chris Hammond is a father, husband, leader, software developer, photographer and car guy. Chris focuses on the latest in technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and has spent decades becoming an expert in ASP.NET and DotNetNuke (DNN) development. You will find a variety of posts relating to those topics here on the website. For more information check out the about Chris Hammond page.

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