why anyone would do this is beyond me.

hey! look! it's my place!

tommy tutone - 8675903

anyone remember that song? i do. here is a guy with way too much time on his hands. he actually dialed that number using every area code that has the 867 prefix. kinda interesting

jenny, are you there?

for the kid in all of us

bigwheel

hiking in the mountains

hopefully if the weather holds and the planets align (which they truly are right now)we will go hiking this friday. it's been awhile since we have gone. last time was a trip to table rock. a must for anyone who can exert the energy to see a wondrous view from the top of a granite mountain.

this weekend we will go a different route. same area, but different trail. we will not see the wonderful view from the top of the mountain, but will see a beautiful stream for most of the hike and huge trees that must be over 100 years old, some small caves and maybe a few wild creatures.

hiding in the caves
tms

4th of july

is quickly approaching. two things happen this weekend. first and foremost is my wife's birthday! happy birthday sweetie! i love you very much!

second if the celebration of our nations independence. this deems pretty important in our times today. it was the beginning of what we call freedom. freedom is special to us, as it's the foundation of our society. with our soldiers fighting over seas to help protect our way of life, we should truly be thankful for what we have and what they are doing to help preserve it.

this guy needs to be slapped!

yoga

in case you were wondering

shelf life

a house is a house, right?

home for sale

rant again?

i know i have covered some of this before, but today just seems like a day to express.

music....music should be an journey. traveling along the musical plane. carrying you into a world of sensory overload. drifting along the waves of beats and rhythms.

lotus notes....i am not sure if anyone reading this even knows what lotus notes is, but i have to express a little. this week has been notes week. corporate is changed from a server based lotus domino environment to a mainframe domino environment. this has caused us to have to migrate the server on people's notes client. it should be as simple as changed a server name, but NOT! it's been hell week for sure. along with the server migrations we also have a client upgrade. this is the upgrade from the 5.x client to the 6.5.2 client. again, you would think that all you need to do is upgrade the software and be done with it. NOT!

i guess i shouldn't complain. i have a job and i definitely have work to do!

work'n it
tms

here's a cool little link for ya

mud jake

braves win

well they actually win three games in a row. they have not done that in a long time. it was good to see them hit the ball and scrore runs.

anyone have a few hundred thousand dollars they want to donate to a good cause? you can donate to me! i am in need! :-) i really dont need that much money, but hey, while i am asking!?!?!?


money hungry
tms

um hello? hello? anybody in there?

my bad. have not posted in a couple. not much going on right now in the world of the sun. just trying to muddle my way through the mundane repetative duldrums of work.

braves win! braves win! they are not doing too well at the moment. hopefully that will change. they are starting many rookies and i am sure that has contributed to their no quitting attitude. they are fighting every day and that is exciting to watch.

summer seems to have showed it's lovely head. sun, sun and more sun! i love it!

shinning brightly
tms

p.s.
if anyone is interested in a little darker side, then you can visit my other blog. aimless posts. beware, all kind of things lurk in the shadows of my mind and they come out on the pages of that blog. those easily offended should not visit.

starwars disappointment

i am a huge sci-fi fan. as if you hadn't noticed and after this weekends movie marathon, of watching star wars 1, 2, 3, and 4, i must say that i am finding the acting and character's to be a little under par. now that i have had time to actually watch them and really look at them, i am disappointed. i feel episode 4, 5 and 6 are actually better with the story line and acting, then 1, 2 and 3 have been. episode 1 was the best of the first three. the acting was decent and the story line decent. after episode one, it went downhill. the worst acting job would have to be actor who played anakin skywalker. in episode 2, he was almost an automaton. very re-hersed sounding lines and no emotions unless he was angry. the other actors did a better job of creating the appropriate emotion for the scene.

on a better note, it is really neat to watch episode 4 right after episode 3. i now understand it better and see things in it that I didn't see before. it's rather enjoyable. i assume we will watch 5 and 6 this week to complete the series.

the ultimate critic
tms

starwars - episode 3

going to see starwars episode 3!! since the wife has not seen episode 1 or 2, we started watching those last night to get prepared for episode 3 this weekend.

avoiding the clone
tms

conversation from the office

at work yesterday we started a conversation about marriage. it is uncanny how many of us have married people that remind us of our parents. i feel that i have done that. maybe that is why i get along so well with my wife. we fit very well. i see many thing in her that i also see in my mother, personality traits, mannerisms, ideals, and others.
we talked about people marrying too young and/or too quick. my parents are an exception to that rule, but many are not. i married my first wife when i was 27. i was an immature 27, which i would say alot of men are in their 20's. i did not really know who i was and what i wanted. i married because i felt that is what i was supposed to do. my coworkers that have been married more than once stated the same ideas.
we also talked about how people do not seem to want to work towards a relationship. they feel like they are the only one right in the relationship. but it takes two to make it work, and it takes two to make it go awry.
something the minister told me and my wife when we were about to get married is to not leave your partner in anger. always give your partner a kiss and hug bye. never go to bed angry. these ideals are good practice.

trying to practicing what i preach
tms

weather-r-us

after one of the prettiest weekends this year, rain is again upon us. what i find interesting is that with all this rain, we are still below normal. huh?

i was reading yesterday and today about apple computers switching to intel processors. i find this move a good one. risc processors are wonderful processors and perform great, but they do not lend themselves to desktop computing as well in cisc processors do. by this i mean that the home computing world is dominated by intel and amd. both are cisc processors. most of the home computing software including the majority of games, are designed around the cisc processors. with this being said, apple is now opening the doors for game developers to port their games to the unix/linux os. i truely hope this happens. i have been a proponent of the *nix os's since the early days of redhat. my only complaint has been the gaming industry's reluctance to port their games to that os. with apple now using the cisc processor, it will be much easier for the gaming industry to do just that, port away!

prayer: may the braves win a game. amen

hoping for a win
tms

among the stars

as you may already know, space fascinates me. if you look at the links on the right you can see a link for apod. apod stands for astronomy picture of the day. it is a great tool to get educated on the current happenings in space technology and also what space is all about. they post a picture every day that relates to space in some fashion. they then give a great explanation of the picture and create many links within the description of other sites that my have similar information about the picture. have a look if you are even remotely a space buff.

word of the day - paragon - a model of excellence or perfection

try to use the word in your everyday conversation. u would be surprised how many of them stick with you after you do that. expanding your vocabulary is a good thing! :-)

happy monday
tms

word of the day

troglodyte - 1. a member of any of various people who lived or reputed to live in caves 2. a person characterized by reclusive habits or outmodded or reactionary attitudes

i can name a few people that i have felt were troglodytes. i even work with a few of them. :-)

fridays are days of waiting

i would assume that i am like most. fridays are a day of waiting for the work day to end so the weekend can begin. if not, still, that is me today. hopefully it wont be a long day as even tho it has been a short week by day count, it has been a long week by the way it feels. :-(

i normally do not write about my personal life in my blog. today i am making an exception. i truly want to go hiking and kayaking soon. the problem? rain and cool weather. it has rained for two weeks. we had a record low/high on sunday last weekend. what is that you say? it means that the high temps for the day were the lowest ever for may. we have yet to see many day above 80. normally this time of year we have 90's. the water in the lake and rivers is still a little too chilly to kayak without any wet wear. i don't own any as it's always so nice in the summer. i have videos of may dad and i kayaking in april. no suck luck this year.

weather report for friday.......overcast with rain. wonderfull

soggy in sc
tms

after the holiday

i guess by now you can tell that i do not write in my blog over the weekends and on holidays. i find that i am too busy to try and put much thought into it when the weekends are here. the holidays are even more booked.

in my previous post i ranted a little about a package i sent via fed-ex. well tomorrow i will be able to file a claim on that package. i also found out that i did not put enough insurance on the package. not sure how this will turn out yet, but will try to let you know.

rain, cold rain at that. one day summer will actually arrive and the family and i can go out on the boat and potentially get sunburnt.

wet on a wednesday
tms