I’m not going to shoot my TV. Why? It’s a pretty nice TV. I shouldn’t be that upset with it. It’s not the TV’s fault what I choose to watch. If I choose to watch Dancing with the Stars and get upset that Bristol Palin is still on the show, I’m certainly not going to take it out on the TV. Why is this relevant? Because some idiot shot his TV over that. They walk among us. And he’s from Wisconsin!! D’oh!
You may or may not have noticed I moved this blog and changed the links. I decided to consolidate the software that Liz and I are using so it uses the same install… so I only need to update it once. Smart, huh? It works reasonably well, but for some reason some of my old permalinks broke. The new permalinks shouldn’t do that.
Work has been going pretty well for me so far this week. I was home sick on Monday… ended up sleeping 4-1/2 or 5 hours. Tuesday morning I got up bright and early and moved one of my applications to a new server to try and resolve some performance issues it had been having for the past month and a half. It’s actually worked better than expected (knock on wood). This means I can finally focus on some other things without worrying about a system falling over and interrupting me. I have a few coding-type projects to work on. One is re-implementing our website’s people search feature in ColdFusion. Should be interesting. Another is coming up with “professional profile” pages for faculty and staff.
I spent some time a week or so ago working on my Christmas list. I wasn’t able to come up with much in the line of “geek” items. I did find several CDs to put on my list. It occurred to me today that a new computer case might be an option. Maybe something in a desktop profile with a less obvious power button. I’d have to find one that’s reasonably price though, which could be a challenge based on the last time I looked. Some other options I thought of weren’t quite as “physical” … web hosting packages or museum memberships.
I’m happy to have snow on the ground again. A lot has melted and I still want a little more to melt so I can go out and put in driveway markers easily this weekend, but I’m looking forward to having more snow on the ground. It’s cold. We need snow. I *really* dislike cold without snow. Cold and brown = boring. Maybe Laura will be more willing to go sledding this winter and generally get into playing in the snow more. Maybe we can build some snow people!!
Tomorrow night Liz and I are going out on a date! We’re going to dinner at Ava’s followed by seeing “Red” at the New Richmond theatre. We’ve never been to either place, so hopefully both are good experiences. In other news, we got tickets to go see Gaelic Storm in Milwaukee on St. Patrick’s Day. It should be a good time. Liz’s parents will watch the kids so we can stay in Milwaukee overnight. We’re both really looking forward to it.
Well, that’s all for this fine evening. Tomorrow is another day of work for me but I’m actually looking forward to it. 
