captbrando's log

I’m wrapping up my trip here in St. Paul and this city sure is nice during the summertime. Its in the low 70s here right now. Mmmmtasty. One thing that is driving me absolutely BATTY about St. Paul is the fact that the majority of the local businesses surrounding the city have the craziest hours…

Yeh, I passed. I’m a licensed amateur radio operator Whee! So now when natural disasters happen, I’m all about helping out and being in the know. I’ve only got a little 5 watt receiver, so I’m not going to be sending long ass signals across the world, but maybe someday I’ll upgrade my license to…

Well, the weather is nice up here in St. Paul. It was really beautiful both Saturday and Sunday, but yesterday was a record heat day. I guess those nice folks up there wanted to make a boy from Texas feel at home. 94 degrees. WHEE! Its cooler today as a front is working its way…

Well, I promised a new look, and I’m workin on it… I’ve been playing with some bloggers, and recently, Zope. Its pretty dang nifty, I really do have to say. I’m looking forward to completely finishing it, one way or the other. Next week will be interesting… Back from Pine Bluff, AR, and off to…

So its finally time for a new site design. I’m currently evaluating CMS systems to determine whether I want to go that route or not. I’m really thinking that I’d rather use someone else’s code and maybe add a few hacks as opposed to starting from scratch again. Not sure if I just want to…

Welp, this week I am in Pine Bluff, AR. Lovely town. (I wish sarcasm could be communicated better over an electronic medium) So I did find one good thing in this town (aside from the Super Wal-Mart) and that is Garfield’s Pub. Nice little joint in the local mall. Great beer on tap, and the…

Welp, it looks like they FINALLY found WMD in Iraq! I wonder if all of those bleeding heart liberals will walk around with their tail between their legs (not likely)? Oh well, take that lefties. I wonder what the Kerry camp will come up with next

Well, I did get my first 2 jumps in yesterday! Wow. Indescribable. It certainly was scary being the last ones out, taking position at the door, and praying your instructors help you out. Just for clarification, I was in the Accelerated Free-Fall Program. My first jump was me piloting my own chute and two instructors…

Welp, the voters in McKinney sure spoke loud an clear. Those silly oppressors of the Beer & Wine law were squashed today and we are getting Beer & Wine in McKinney! According to the negative propaganda (quite poorly written I might add…), brothels are next. Yesterday evening, James, Donny, Chris and myself were all sitting…

Well, we witnessed it. I gotta tell you, I really did like Friends in the day. There were a couple of years towards the end that I started to lose interest. Especially when they started making the episodes odd lengths. I will tell you though, its not necessarily the show, the actors, or the concept…

We’ve been dealing with more death in McKinney. You all heard about the murder of 4 people that happened a few weeks ago (including 2 high school football players). Last weekend some kids were drag racing down Lake Forest and the two in one card plowed into a tree. One died at the scene and…

NICE and relaxing week it really was. We enjoyed the beautiful resort and all that Mexico had to offer. Great fun. I’m slammed with work at the moment, but I’ll leave you with a little nugget…. Pictures from Vacation.

Welp, tomorrow is vacation! I’m so glad to finally have this week off, its going to be great. Chris and I are going to have quite the time in Mexico and it starts pretty soon! Anyway, just a quick note and I’m out!

Heh, the fewls are Comcast lately. I am all TV cable free at this residence. Its GREAT. BTW, my good friends at S&S Communications have a website! They installed my satellite and it was the most pleasurable part of the entire process. Enjoy your fewl day and try not to get suckered in!

Sorry bout that folks… Anyway.. So far I am very pleased with the DirecTV Package I got. My new Tivo has most of the features my ReplayTV did and it does not take 8 seconds for it to change channels. w00t! The local installation folks, S&S Communications, are the bippety bomb. They were really the…

Welp, today marks our third anniversary! Its really hard to believe that three years has gone by. In some respects, its flown by so fast that at times we have not had much time to enjoy life. In other respects, its been an amazing journey that I wouldn’t trade for anything. Pretty soon its going…

What a weekend! This new pay schedule that I am on really sucks. I like 24 pay periods a year. 26 sucks. Badly. Oh well. This weekend we busted some serious ass around here. Chris had to work on Saturday, but while she was there I changed the impeller on the parent’s boat and took…

Hi Wendi!

Gotta love all of those acronyms. Welp, I took another plunge this week (jeez, why does it always happen like this? Digital Camera, Satellite TV, multi-function printer and now VoIP) and got my VoIP stuff up and running. VoIP means Voice over IP, or in even more laymans terms, my telephone service works through the…

Welp, all the old gear is up on eBay! Time to go! Here are my current auctions.