Got back yesterday and the weather here was not as bad as I was expecting. Yes, it is warm, but I was expecting warmer. Hopefully fall will begin its arrival as September arrives. Labor Day Weekend! We’ll be making our way out to the farm for a short stay, but hopefully the weather will hold…

So I’m walking back to my hotel after checking on a few things here at the office (they are right across the street from each other so its easy. Oh and the St. Paul Hotel does not have high speed internet….), I happen to walk by a construction worker who is cutting through some concrete.…

Dunno about you folks back in Texas, but damn the weather is nice up here! Of course, I do realize that it will be extremely NOT nice in a few months. While we will be enjoying 50-60 degree Novembers/Decembers, its surely not the same up here! I just found out I’ve got to make a…

Happy birthday you old fart!

Oh well! I thought summer was on its way out but it sure has come back with a vengeance this week! I hear that a cold front is coming through this weekend and by Sunday it will cool down a little bit. I certainly hope so! Boy what a cluster tonight. I get a call…

We got to hear the heartbeat of the kiddo today! Freddie the Fetus is alive and thumpin! What an amazing sound to hear. I’ll make sure Chris posts something about the experience

Wendi was telling me about this last night, but here is the story. Dave Matthews and the Big Stink.

Man just did not enjoy the sleep thing last night. After I got home last night, Chris and I watched the Family Guy marathon on Fox, did a little computer work, and went to bed. Not much sleep for either of us I think tho. She said she did not sleep well, I said the…

As I am enjoying these days without school (ok, so I am helping to teach, but its a little different on this side of the table), I am finding that catching up on reading is definitely something that is possible. The problem is, I’m continually adding to my reading list and it does not seem…

I’ve been up for a while because I have a client in Ft. Worth that I have to be at this morning. Gotta love the hour and a half drive (sometimes two if I’m lucky!) that sits before me. Man, I can’t wait to move. Anyone wanna buy a House?. Pros: Close to Oklahoma Quiet…

So I’m observing a graduate class earlier this evening and I get to campus about 15ish (more like 10, but who’s counting?) minutes before class is to start. I had been up at Barnes & Noble picking up a couple of texts that needed updating since the last one was almost 2 decades old and…

I forgot to mention (among all the craziness of the new site and all…) that I passed my 5-wpm Morse Code (Element 1) exam and the General Exam (Element 3) this weekend so I am a General Class Amateur now. I’m studying for Amateur Extra but the morse code is behind me now. I also…

Strangely enough, after the big mass upgrade I did on this server yesterday, it appears that the PHP Command Line package has totally forgotten about the modules that were added to the system. Not that there are tons of processes that use it, just one and it emails me every time it runs. Nice. I’m…

Hey folks! Welcome to the new site! There will no doubt be some style changes as I get my hands around this new CMS I have here. For those more technically inclined, I decided on b2evolution for its code maturity, ability to work within PHP/SQL environment, and its ability to import. Now you can comment…

After doing some serious reflecting on what exactly this site should end up being, I think there will be a new revision forthcoming. I’ve decided that the majority of the meat behind this site is this blog (however sporadically updated lately) and the Photo Gallery. I’ll take the rest of the junk (resume, whitepapers, etc)…

Personal feelings aside, this video which former Mayor Rudy Guiliani says “Every American Should See” is pretty amazing. Check out John Kerry, on Iraq.

Boy it sure was! We had our first sonogram of the baby (Chris is 10 weeks along) yesterday and we confirmed that there is really something growing in the baby oven! See if you can find its head and tail! What a humbling experience. It was really cool to see that little dude (only 2.4cm…

Hey folks, been a busy week. I did get clearance to Graduate! YAAY! So I guess they give out MBAs to anyone these days I’ll be official on Friday. No bites on the house yet, but it is late in the season and we hopefully did not miss our window. I know our house will…

So sorry, but things have been ABSOLUTELY NUTZ over here. Starting with too much travel lately, to really looking for a new house. Yep, our place is on the market now. The listing is here. They finally got everything up on the listing! Jerry is pretty upset that we are moving. I’d like to leave…

Very interesting communications today! I got an email from the new owner of the Spice of Life! He said he came across the picture and my adventure by using Google (what a great little tool that thing is) and wanted to know how our voyage went. Apparently it had been renamed since I sailed her…