journaling: enabled

to the driver in the green Pontiac Grand Prix that passed me as I was on my way home this evening… a couple of driving tips:

1) when the solid yellow is on your side of the road, you really shouldn’t pass.  if it’s dashed on the other side, that’s for oncoming drivers.

2) passing while approaching a curve in the road?  generally a bad idea

3) the highway number does not equal the speed limit (otherwise you’d be in trouble on US Hwy 12).  Even at that interpretation I think you were being generous with the accelerator given that you were more than 1/2 a mile ahead of me after 3-4 minutes.

I hope you got pulled over.  Driving that way is unsafe.

… trying to be more regular about posting.  :D  I’ve corrected the comments form issue.  I like the way this theme looks, but I’m not a big fan of how it handles fonts (default is serif fonts in very small sizes … I think the designer must have 40/20 vision or something like that).  Anyway, I’m sure it will continue to be tweaked.

I pulled the feed out of facebook this evening because I’m not sure I’m comfortable with it sucking in all my posts and keeping them.  Not that I want to hide them from my facebook friends … I’d just far rather Facebook didn’t suck the content in for its own.

Two days of work done this week already.  It’s flying by.  Monday started out like a “Monday” … and not in a good way.  A couple of little crises to deal with at work but nothing that couldn’t be handled.  Today was a day full of meetings.  I basically spent 5 hrs in meetings today.  Thankfully my day started out really productive so it wasn’t a loss.  Tomorrow I don’t have a lot going on so hopefully will be able to get more documentation done for our Active Directory project as well as make some progress on building our web sandbox.

On the home front, I had hoped to do some updates on the church website but the Internet connection was being ornery, so I punted that for the evening.  I think I need to get someone out here to figure out if it’s a cable or our connection or what.  It’s been pretty flakey since mid-August.  They (BTI) have replaced some equipment on their end but it still flakes out a little now and then.  Tomorrow I need to call up the hosting company for the church website and talk down the price.  We’re currently paying about $30/month for hosting … but new people can sign up for a better plan for $8.95/month.  Saving the church money would be good.  Speaking of church, I’m also researching video recording equipment for church services.  I keep waffling back and forth about what route to go though.

I decided today that it has really been too long since I’ve gotten together with Rich.  We need to catch up on what’s going on in our lives and “talk shop”.  I also need to get him over to the house to see if he can help me out with my FreeBSD booting problem … it boots, but it needs some geeky assistance to do so since I did some hard drive swapping.

… most definitely here.  The wind was blowing fiercely this afternoon … gusting to around 45.  I was watching outside waiting for the cows and horses next door to start flying through the air.  Fortunately for the neighbor, they stayed grounded, though at least one cow did escape the pasture.  Today was one of those days I wish I had a weather station (though I don’t want to get one of the cheapo wal-mart varieties).

Yesterday was pretty uneventful.  Liz spent a chunk of the day out and about at a baby shower with Warren for one of her friends.  Laura and I did our usual Saturday morning garbage/recycling routine followed by fun at the park.  She likes the slide though yesterday she wanted to swing more.  Last night I spent a good chunk of the evening researching video equipment for church.  I’m still not sure what route I want to go with it.

This morning we went to church and I assisted with communion as I often do (one of the duties of being on the board of deacons).  I found myself irritated with the two people who were assisting, as they failed to help clean up afterwords.  Both have been around enough to know that there is cleanup to do after the service.  Oh well.

This afternoon we watched part of the Packer game and ate yummy popcorn.  Eventually sleep became a higher priority so we took a nap.  Woke up to good news and bad news … Packers won but so did the Vikings.  Liz left me with the kids while she went grocery shopping.  We watched Extreme Makeover: Home Edition … they helped out a family in Wisconsin! 

Back to the title of the post … it’s windy, rainy and cool outside.  I made the comment to Liz earlier this afternoon that it felt like it should be snowing outside.  I’d like to enjoy the season a little more before snow flies though.  A bonfire with s’mores sounds good too.  :)  Anyway, my night to do the mid-night feeding and I have work tomorrow … so I’m going to catch some Z’s while they’re still easy to catch.

I’ve been contemplating starting a new blog for a while now.  I’ve had one on LiveJournal for a few years but I just don’t feel motivated to post to it.  I think part of it is that I don’t feel like I have a stake in it?  I think there are two reasons I’ve hesitated …

1. I don’t really want to walk away from the content I’ve posted out there.
2. I like the visibility it offers … though I am not sure anybody goes to LiveJournal anymore?

Well, I think I’m going to try this for a while and see how it goes.  There’s apparently a client to post from the iPod Touch so I might have to try that out too.