Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
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9:38 pm - The times they are a-changin'
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That about sums it up.
This afternoon I gave my two weeks notice to my current employer. I have accepted a very cool position at a local software company doing Mac OS X development.
As well, I plan on changing from LiveJournal to my own site managed 'bloging' software.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
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1:25 am - A message for GoogleBot.
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
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11:14 am - What a difference two months make.
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The past two months have been extremely stressful for me. I would apologize for not writing sooner but I'm sure all will understand.
So it all started the beginning of February. When we had a pretty bad wind storm come through Atlanta. The winds were howling through with gusts up to, and I would be surprised if they were over, 60 MPH. Unfortunately, our house is totally exposed on the south-west side with hardly any wind break. If you have lived in Atlanta long enough you know most of our storms and bad weather and wind come from the south-west.
Well, that morning we lost approximately 40 or so shingles from our roof. So I took the day off and with help from my father-in-law and dad, by the end of the week in the cold and wind we replaced every torn off and broken shingle.
Then about a month ago, I had just purchased our brand new lawn mower and was ready to tackle the bermuda grass that needed to be scalped from the year before. It was fairly windy that day. And for some reason I stepped back during a gust of wind and looked up at the south-west facing roof. And poof... lost 20 shingles while I was standing there looking.
So we've been getting estimates and quotes to either replace that side of the roof or the entire roof. As you can imagine it's a bit stressful to think that we might need to drop that much money so soon. But I figure it's an investment and it's best to get it taken care of.
Of course during the past month we had our refrigerator stop working. And have a swarm of termites invade our house. It seems that our house was due for a "booster" treatment, from the company that already held the bond on the house, this month. But given what I've seen around the house, I wouldn't go with that company if my life depended on it.
So we defrosted the refrigerator... back to working normally.
Termites... we have received several quotes and have chosen to go with a very reputable company that will install the Sentricon system and also spot treat the current infestation on our house with Termidor.
It's been a crazy stressful time. And I hope everything will get back to "normal" soon.
current mood:  stressed
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
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3:54 pm - Listen to the music!
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I'm a part of a monthly music club where someone comes up with a theme and then someone tries to come up with a track list that maches. The whole idea is to expand other's musical disc-ology as well as experience. Here is January's tracks that are available on the iTunes Music Store as an iMix.
Early Morning Dreams Sleep Furiously (Link Requires iTunes)
Total Songs: 10
Date: January 31, 2005
current mood: busy
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
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9:55 am - Happy New Year!
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Hello and Happy New Year. OK, I'm only 3 days and 10 hours late... but I guess it's better than nothing.
I have had a wonderful two weeks, my boss gave me two weeks off at the holidays. So while it sucked to have to wake up and come in to work it's better than having to come in around the holidays. So April and I are very thankful. It's been like a second honeymoon just two short months after getting married.
Anyway, I'm back in the saddle and ready to get going on another year. I feel 2005 will be interesting for sure, I guess we'll see how it develops.
current mood: busy
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Monday, December 13th, 2004
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8:35 am - Hit and Run...
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This weekend... this weekend was pretty bad.
I went out with a group from church to see Oceans Twelve. The movie, isn't so great. They took the wonderful plot from the last movie ripped it out and replaced it with humor and hoped no one would notice.
On the way home from the movie I was stopped at a light when all of a sudden we heard the sound of skidding tires behind us. Next thing we know we were hit in the rear. It lurched us forward a good bit. Stunned and trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do next and angry that someone just hit me. I started to think about pulling over to the left hand turn lane one lane over. When the teal green 92-94 Civic Hatchback (seemingly manual) squealed his tires across all lanes of traffic (3) to the right with his lights off down the cross road.
Not only was I hit, I was hit and then the person didn't even have the courtesy to stop and own up to it. Coward.
Luckily, there was only about 0.5% damage to the vehicle. The bumper didn't crack. There only appears a minor scratch. The only "serious" damage appears to be in the metal struts that hold the bottom of the bumper. The were bent in like this.. '/' by about 1/8" to 1/4". So my bumper barely look like it's leaning in... where before it was perfectly up and down straight.
There goes my perfect 10 year driving history with no accidents. Although I didn't cause this. It still sucks.
But we are very blessed, we are OK. The car is OK. All I know is the hand of God must have been in front of that car. Because I know we were whacked pretty hard.
On top of that this will be the first year I won't be sending out Christmas/Holiday cards to friends. :( There is just so much going on. But, I will be on top of the game next year! With the new married life and wife... there is little time to do a lot of things right now. And people seemed to be just plain rude this weekend while out shopping.
Anyway, everyone take care.
current mood:  indifferent
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
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8:45 am - MythTV... floored.
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You've heard me talk at length about my MythTV box that I have built. Last night I did a small "upgrade" to my setup.
All I have to say is... ^*&#*#! This thing rocks.
So what did I do? I enabled multiple frontends and used a pre-built Mac OS X package that allows me to use my MythTV box on my OS X machine. And the scary part... it works. It works well. OK, it's awesome and amazes me. As a friend would say, "It rocks my face off!"
I was able to watch pre-recorded videos with no problem. I was able to watch live TV with no problem.
Now there is a caveat in here... My MythTV linux box only has an 802.11b USB network interface. The laptop has an 802.11g card. With previously recorded videos the network didn't have much problems. Sometimes the video would slow down but the audio always appeared to stay constant. The MPEG video has a bit rate of 3500 bps burstable to 4750 (I think, I have forgotten how I have set it up.) The linux box only has a USB 1.1 interface so I don't know if upgrading it to 802.11g would help or not. I could move the router to the cabinet and try cabled ethernet, but currently I think knoppmyth has some problems with the built in NIC on the motherboard. Knoppmyth is the linux distro that I'm using that keeps me from having to build the machine from scratch and saved lots of time getting the machine up and running.
Also, I tested LiveTV on the TV while watching a previously recorded video on the OS X frontend. No problems. Now I can watch something else if April decides she has to watch that program she already taped.
Wow, very cool. And all for free.
current mood:  bouncy
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