Well, the ol’ Captain is but a mere 9 beers away from his third (and likely final) plate at the Flying Saucer.  Yep, another amazing (?) life accomplishment. Anyway, it’s almost time for a party!  I’ll let folks know when it is. I’m in town today, but in and out the rest of the week. …

Thought you guys might enjoy seeing how Garrett is making his football picks this year! Click here to see the video!

Ok, ready for another travel rant? Thought so. As regional travel increases, many airlines have been operating smaller regional jets from companies like Bombardier and Embraer. Gone are the days of always expecting to ride on a big Boeing 757 everywhere you go. I primarily fly American Airlines since I live about 10 minutes from…

OK, so our new friend outside is a Brown House Spider.  She is a little smaller than a full grown one, but not a Brown Recluse or anything like that.  She starts spinning her web around 9pm or so, and runs from the tree to the garage (about 12 feet), and down to the bushes,…

Yep, I’m going to take the plunge.  The family is going to the Wiggles show in Grand Prairie tonight.  Doing it for the kiddo! I’m keeping my mind open, because I know he enjoys it.  I also know that he likes grown-up bands like Guster and Sorta.  His first live music event was seeing Dread…

Well folks, last night Bonzai passed on to go play with the giant yarn ball in the sky.  His condition has been deteriorating, and the very sad thing is we could not figure out how to fix him.  We thought we had it licked yesterday when we FINALLY got the latest test results back, but…

The last couple of weeks have been insane.  Between work going nuts and activities at home, we’ve been very busy bees.  We bid farewell to Erin this week.  We’ll miss her, but wish her the best on her new journey. SO ready for football to start.  Training camps started this week for most teams, and…

Massive thanks to James for helping me get the new radio installed.  I finally worked out what I think were the last of the gremlins, and my “Find Me” link on the right will now work again.  Apparently, some things have changed over the last 8 months or so, and the digipeater I use to…

Today’s Cyanide & Happiness..  Such greatness…. Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Man, what a few months it has been.  So much rain!  And travel delays, oh my!  Got stuck today in Cedar Rapids while waiting for weather north of Dallas to clear out so our plane could make its way up.  Round about way, it finally got there, and I got home. We had more fun…

Well, my PTO is over.  Unlike my boss who extended his PTO, I’ve got 2 trips to make this week.  Thankfull I’m not visiting each coast, just one.  Regarldess, more photos from the road starting tomorrow!

Yeah, just did the ol apt-get install php5 (plus addons I have), and replaced jpGraph, and the weather page is back up and running!  w00t!

Though I’ve done quite a bit of PHP coding in my lifetime, I’ve still not ventured over to PHP5.  I’ve got some systems that I’m worried about when I make the switch, but hopefully I have not been coding with deprecated methods! Since the Debian PHP maintainers just announced that PHP4 is now EoL in…

So, now day three into the “vacation” I am taking around our nations holiday, and I’ve been pretty good thus far.  I’ve only deleted a few emails that needed “special filing attention,” sat on a con call with legal and finance, and conducted an interview for an open position on my team… not too bad. …

You guys want to hear them, so I deliver. OK, so I’m standing at the B22 gate trying to see if the gate agent is ready to hook me up with a boarding pass (since the flight was only checked in at 80% full and I was number 1 on the list). As she is…

Well, along with many other travelers, I was stranded last night in Boston.  After hearing that the first available flight out was 8:00pm TODAY, I had them get creative.  I start a journey through LaGuardia to Dallas to try to get home.  Weather everywhere caused major issues, and it was not until sitting on the…

Yeah, it’s a couple of days late. I could adjust the publish date on the page here, but then the story I am going to tell you will be out of order. I went to bed Sunday night exhausted from all the Dad’s day fun and watching the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode (What the…

So we had a meeting get rescheduled this Wednesday, and I’ll be heading up earlier than I planned.  Moved around my meetings (no worries there), and now it’s time to call our travel folks.  If I move the flight, they have to cancel my non-refundable ticket, and issue a refundable. What’s the net cost you…

Well, this is an odd one…  I’m going through the mail that I’ve accumulated over the last week and I just opened a 2 page slick advertising a “Hot Uranium OTC Stock!”  I’m used to the one or two emails telling me how to ride the bull wave to massive profits that get through the…

Found an interesting link at lifehack.org today.  Using consonant sounds to remember numbers.  Could be an interesting way to remember long strings of numbers with practice! Give me a Ch(u)B.