Ugh... I've had a recent event that I won't discuss much further, but I basically didn't have time to do something that was necessary. Not a "sort of nice" thing, but something I really needed to do. I missed out.
Anwyay, my life will continue, so don't worry. This weekend was a little slower. Friday, we hit the grocery store, and I paid some bills and the baby-sitters. I also got a new "big" flat-panel monitor and sold a 19-inch CRT monitor to someone who needed it way more than me.
Saturday, I made sausage and eggs for the kids, and we kind of lazed about. Some laundry, which is a standard Saturday activity for me, and a little bit of tinkering. I've still got a stack of paperwork to go through that I intended to complete this weekend.
Sunday, we went to church at CHURCH52. A friend of mine from high-school is the Music Pastor there. My wife and I both grew up going to chruch, but we've really faded out on it. However, she, I and my mom have kind of been nagging each other to get back into it. I know our kids need it. LOL. We enjoyed it. I'd like to go back. I think my wife has a few issues with all the singing. I don't really have issues with it, but we definitely both grew up worshiping in a more "reserved" manner. Pray for me and my family as we come to terms with it all.
I didn't get around to actually installing Amahi, ClarkConnect, or Windows HomeServer. Maybe one night this week, but I honestly think it'll have to wait until the weekend. I did do a bit of research though, and in the back half of the weekend, I realized Amahi came out with new stuff based on Fedora 9. I'm really excited about what they're doing with it, but ClarkConnect has a proven track record with me, and a seemingly more "mature" web site.
Lunch time Monday progress report... that's what this feels like. Blogging is too hard again. I just don't do anything I want to blog about on a daily basis... I guess I can change what I do, or how I feel about it. That way, my Aunt Staci won't say my blog posts are "boring".
I guess I could get those pictures of my kids uploaded...
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Even more Facebook, switching Mom from Mac, Warhammer Online
Wow, an action-packed weekend, and a quick start to what will probably be a super busy week...
I connected to a lot of old acquaintences on Facebook this past weekend. Awesome. I guess I'm officially out of hiding. I have quite a few responses that I need to get to, but it also probably means that I have many more readers of my blog. (The content of my blog gets syndicated on Facebook.) Thanks everyone!
My mom uses an older Mac that I had. I have a PowerBook G4, and if I ever come into some extra money, I might upgrade to a 17-inch MacBook Pro. I still keep my desktop PC for games, and I don't see that changing at the moment. Anyway, the reason I gave my mom the Mac was because the accessibility features were top notch, compared to Windows XP anyway. However, My mom might be able to benefit from having a PC and I wanted to investigate how screen magnification works in Vista. My mom's vision isn't great, and the zoom feature in Mac OS really helps her out. I'd like to upgrade her to Mac OS X Leopard so that I can do remote desktop assisance more easily. Options? If you're reading this, and you care, hit me up.
I hit the doctor's office for a 3-month checkin. Hemoglobin A1C is rock bottom 6.0 so, apparently, this working out and eating better has done a little somethin' something. Weight is down to 293 (officially) a little higher than what I've seen on the scale, but hey, it's about 45 pounds from what the doctor observed by browsing through my chart. We'll be cutting one of my meds down to half, and I'll have to watch my sugar when I exercise to make sure that I don't go hypoglycemic.
Oh, and my wife's sister had a little baby shower this weekend. We also finally got a few of the baby things that we were saving from our two kids over to Amy and Paul's house. They're getting the baby's room together, and I think we might have to spend some time helping them prepare their home for the arrival. We'll see.
We took the kids to a fire truck showing at the library branch this weekend. I took a few pictures, but I don't know how many of them turned out well. I'll try to put some up on my blog for everyone, but no promises. Scott pooped his diaper, so we cut the visit short. They had fun.
Since my kids were up in Fort Wayne Sunday Afternoon with Holly and her Dad, I got some personal time this weekend. After a long struggle and much internal debate, I decided to return the set-top antenna I purchased and empty the coin savings jar and pick up Warhammer Online. I only got a quick spin in, but I'd say I'd rather play that than World of Warcraft right now. I don't know if WotLK will change that, because I *still* haven't gotten any end-game content, so they're just adding more stuff I'll probably never see.
I connected to a lot of old acquaintences on Facebook this past weekend. Awesome. I guess I'm officially out of hiding. I have quite a few responses that I need to get to, but it also probably means that I have many more readers of my blog. (The content of my blog gets syndicated on Facebook.) Thanks everyone!
My mom uses an older Mac that I had. I have a PowerBook G4, and if I ever come into some extra money, I might upgrade to a 17-inch MacBook Pro. I still keep my desktop PC for games, and I don't see that changing at the moment. Anyway, the reason I gave my mom the Mac was because the accessibility features were top notch, compared to Windows XP anyway. However, My mom might be able to benefit from having a PC and I wanted to investigate how screen magnification works in Vista. My mom's vision isn't great, and the zoom feature in Mac OS really helps her out. I'd like to upgrade her to Mac OS X Leopard so that I can do remote desktop assisance more easily. Options? If you're reading this, and you care, hit me up.
I hit the doctor's office for a 3-month checkin. Hemoglobin A1C is rock bottom 6.0 so, apparently, this working out and eating better has done a little somethin' something. Weight is down to 293 (officially) a little higher than what I've seen on the scale, but hey, it's about 45 pounds from what the doctor observed by browsing through my chart. We'll be cutting one of my meds down to half, and I'll have to watch my sugar when I exercise to make sure that I don't go hypoglycemic.
Oh, and my wife's sister had a little baby shower this weekend. We also finally got a few of the baby things that we were saving from our two kids over to Amy and Paul's house. They're getting the baby's room together, and I think we might have to spend some time helping them prepare their home for the arrival. We'll see.
We took the kids to a fire truck showing at the library branch this weekend. I took a few pictures, but I don't know how many of them turned out well. I'll try to put some up on my blog for everyone, but no promises. Scott pooped his diaper, so we cut the visit short. They had fun.
Since my kids were up in Fort Wayne Sunday Afternoon with Holly and her Dad, I got some personal time this weekend. After a long struggle and much internal debate, I decided to return the set-top antenna I purchased and empty the coin savings jar and pick up Warhammer Online. I only got a quick spin in, but I'd say I'd rather play that than World of Warcraft right now. I don't know if WotLK will change that, because I *still* haven't gotten any end-game content, so they're just adding more stuff I'll probably never see.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Kiss... Daddy... Cheese
A quick one before I start work, since the training class I was supposed to go to got cancelled (and I bothered to check my messages before I headed over... good thing.)
Anyway, my son bit his tongue yesterday, eating shredded cheese. He asked me to kiss it to make it better. Nasty... He was eating shredded cheese, because he chewed up and spat out the cubed chese he had eaten earlier, but also refused earlier... Julie is a good eater, she ate them all up.
The gym sucked today... I could hardly lift the weights, I just wasn't focused... I was a bit short on time, trying to make sure I got out of there in time to get to this training session at work... only to find out it got cancelled. :( I did speed up the tredmill today though, it was fast enough that it actually recommended that I not use the hand grips to measure heartrate... Yikes, I might be running sooner than I thought.
I weighed myself today, and I actually gained 3 pounds... must be all that muscle I'm putting on... or the two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I shared with the kids on Tuesday, LOL.
I think I'm going to like the Shadow well enough... XT9 predictive text messaging is okay, for not having a full QWERTY layout. The phone doesn't make me look like a nerd, and I think I'll go ahead and get those bluetooth headphones for me and holly to work out with. That might push me over the edge to stick with Vista Media Center on this computer too.
Oh, speaking of which, I found colorcase.com through copious, extended google searching... They have an eBay store that has the Ahanix cases (302, 303, and D4). Then there's the Moneual Store, which basically has the Ahanix MCD303 with a stamp and iMon for $300... uh, no thanks. The colorcase eBay store might work out though. I'd love to get a D4 and a couple of 30x cases... but that really brings me back to the front-end/backend scenario with MythTV. I might just have to do MythTV, and have some sort of music synchronization scheme worked out with the phone, or get back on the freedom pony and get a Cowon iAudio 7 and go with .ogg files... I dunno at this point...
Anyway, my son bit his tongue yesterday, eating shredded cheese. He asked me to kiss it to make it better. Nasty... He was eating shredded cheese, because he chewed up and spat out the cubed chese he had eaten earlier, but also refused earlier... Julie is a good eater, she ate them all up.
The gym sucked today... I could hardly lift the weights, I just wasn't focused... I was a bit short on time, trying to make sure I got out of there in time to get to this training session at work... only to find out it got cancelled. :( I did speed up the tredmill today though, it was fast enough that it actually recommended that I not use the hand grips to measure heartrate... Yikes, I might be running sooner than I thought.
I weighed myself today, and I actually gained 3 pounds... must be all that muscle I'm putting on... or the two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I shared with the kids on Tuesday, LOL.
I think I'm going to like the Shadow well enough... XT9 predictive text messaging is okay, for not having a full QWERTY layout. The phone doesn't make me look like a nerd, and I think I'll go ahead and get those bluetooth headphones for me and holly to work out with. That might push me over the edge to stick with Vista Media Center on this computer too.
Oh, speaking of which, I found colorcase.com through copious, extended google searching... They have an eBay store that has the Ahanix cases (302, 303, and D4). Then there's the Moneual Store, which basically has the Ahanix MCD303 with a stamp and iMon for $300... uh, no thanks. The colorcase eBay store might work out though. I'd love to get a D4 and a couple of 30x cases... but that really brings me back to the front-end/backend scenario with MythTV. I might just have to do MythTV, and have some sort of music synchronization scheme worked out with the phone, or get back on the freedom pony and get a Cowon iAudio 7 and go with .ogg files... I dunno at this point...
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