captbrando's log

Here ya go Baby Garrett’s First Swim!

Man, what a great time for a breather! Actually I realized that I was not accruing vacation days anymore and I had maxxed out. So I decided to take a day now, some later, and many more later as well. It is so far working out quite well! We took the kiddo for his first…

So Randy & I are driving to the client site this AM and we are flipping radio channels. Some radio show pops up and they have the editor of “ATM & Debit Newsletter” on there!?? Who the hell needs a newsletter for ATMs? I almost spit out my coffee. Weather is coming in here, so…

We had a fun power outage at the house yesterday, and the weather recording system did not start. Weather Data is once again being populated. Graphs will look funny for a little bit of time, but they will get better.

Wow, screw spring. We’re going to fast forward right to Summer it appears. Why is that? No, not because it got to 98.7 degrees at the house, or because the Heat Index was 105. It’s cause we had to call the HVAC guys out! New house, new A/C, thing just not running right. Little bit…

Slowly starting! I’ve gotten the cable nest a bit more trimmed back. My new wireless keyboard & mouse is very tasty. Still working on the KVM issues though. I believe I might have come across a solution. I’m going to try and use a different kind of feed cable for the monitor. I’m using one…

This week was interesting for sure. From the wheelchair incident to the fire department getting called out early yesterday (next door) to the grandmothers here, it’s been fun. This weekend affords me little by way of relaxation (until Sunday afternoon most likely), but that’s ok. Mother’s Day is worth celebrating and giving up some free…

Ok… BEFORE you answer…. So I’m in the D/FW Airport yesterday, coming home from a quickie down in Houston, and we pull up to the A-2 terminal. Some of you are saying “What the hell is A-2?” Others are saying “OOOoo… I feel your pain.”. It’s this tiny little satellite terminal built just for American…

Funny, cause Dad always likes to jab me a bit when it comes to reading the paper. “Oh, you wouldn’t know because you don’t get the paper,” and “There is some really important stuff in there, you really should get the paper.” Phoooey. But after all the kicking me in the balls, there is an…

So Randy, Jeff & myself are up in St. Paul this morning and we decide that since nothing is really tying us to the St. Paul office, we’ll try to catch an earlier flight home. After extricating ourselves, we head back (and hit EVERY damn light on the way) to the airport and go through…

Yeh, I changed again. N5BX. Nice 1×2 ring to it. Think I’ll stick with this one. Anyway, if anyone out there can recommend a good 4-port Ethernet card & a 4-port Modem card, lemme know. I’m in the market.

Wow, one of those longer weeks. Not long and tough by comparison to many in this world, but certainly an interesting one. Denver was fun, though it sleeted on me while I was there. The next morning was absolutely glorious though; Golden is so beautiful. Of all of the places I have traveled to (and…

You know, working from home I get to be removed from the Office Space like fun of the cube-farm. On the rare occasion I am placed in one for a client (I personally prefer conference rooms), it always amuses me what people say. It’s worse than standing in line at Starbucks around smoke-break time. Sitting…

Need anything? Hopefully the 2 feet of snow is melted!

Yep, I was banned from ladders for 6 months, but dammit if I needed to get the anemometer cable situation all taken care of. The way we left it was pretty bad. Although the long cable idea was halfway working, I think Dad was right about cable length. There just did not seem to be…

Please punch me in the arm. Hard. But only my right arm right now. Why you ask? Well… I got a weather station and was putting the anonemeter up on the house. I was on the roof, everything was fine. I go around back to staple the cable to the house and after a few…

Sitting around waiting for clients to finish is fun isn’t it? I talked to Chris earlier and she is feeling MUCH better. She went to the park around the corner today with her sis and kiddo and that can only mean things are better. I am positive yesterday was horrid, I went through it Monday…

Well, I’m better from my illness, but Chris got it. I’m away from the “Hot Zone” right now on business, but hopefully by the time I get back it will be entirely disinfected and no one else will catch it. I’m wrapping things up here and hope to finish by the end of the day.…

No, this is not the kind of post I am sure some of you think it is. Oh boy, here is another wacky post about some ass-clown who can’t drive while he/she is on the phone. YES he/she, although it seems like there are more SHE problems than HE. Sexist driving comments aside, I think…

Thank you Verizon! They only missed 2 appointments (was supposed to be hooked up on Thursday), but it’s all working fine now. I’ve just got the base package (15 down/2 up), but I’ll be looking at possibly moving up in the world to the 30/10 just for fun. It comes with Static IPs etc and…