Patrick Havens on July 6th, 2007

Actually I did… and I didn’t. This months issue had a custom cover sponsored by Xerox. So a few thousand of us who quickly sent in a picture got it on the cover. And so I had a quick snap made, and sent it in. It looks like they didn’t bother [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 11th, 2007

I’m pissed. I live in a very nice city… surrounded by a lot of people who for the most part are pretty nice. So we’ve thought nothing of the fact my wife walks a few blocks (around 12) from our house to her work and back. But today somebody got on my shit list.
As my [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 16th, 2007

I really suggest that everyone do this at least once. This was one of those crazy days where I went to lunch and came back to a dozen emails… wander off to deal with tech support and get another half dozen, wander back to tech support and come back to another dozen. And [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 10th, 2007

Just any FYI, one reason there hasn’t been a whole lot of posts tonight was the fact that I was finally getting around to actually posting some posts I had started on the family blog.  And also a  wine review on another blog of mine.   So if you want a a good cab this weekend [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 11th, 2007

I was just realizing as I was renewing my domains that it’s been a year since I started blogging. And saying it’s been an interesting year is putting it mildly.
I redesigned TheHavens.net from a family website to a blog January 11th.
But I was warned that a friend was quiting his job with Fullsystem [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 27th, 2006

I’m a mean father. I wanted my son to be well balanced and my sisters mother in law owns a dance studio. So I have him doing dance once a week. This last Christmas he did a number of performances and they all went well but… you knew there was going to [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 2nd, 2006

There wasn’t a whole lot of posts today, because I was busy around the house moving furniture and getting the Christmas Tree up. But since I like toturing my family by posting pictures of them. Here they are. So pictures where taken during the trimming, but not while we relaxed drank Hot [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 31st, 2006

Most won’t care, but I wanted to make sure and let you know that a few pictures taken today/tonight for Halloween are up in the gallery. So go ahead and enjoy.
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Patrick Havens on October 29th, 2006

I love my son, and I would like to think I would do most anything for him, but below is an ultimate story of a father’s love for his son.
[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 27th, 2006

The chances are one in a million that this woman in the UK would have these babies - they’re black and white twins.
Baby Kaydon has dark hair, brown eyes and brown skin - his brother Layton is blonde-haired, blue-eyed with pale skin.
The mother is of English-Nigerian heritage and the babies’ father is white.
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