Nice Day...

It is an awesome day outside so far. I plan on getting some yard work done today. I am completing up the shed that I must have bought over a year or two ago! Maybe tonight I can get some more pictures formatted and posted... maybe not...

Guess who I found in the yard a day ago?

Long time coming...

Well I think I am back into a routine... man the govt. took some out of my left cheek. Kinda hard to sit now! Well at least I have started to organize some pictures from my grandfathers funeral.

Here is a taste...

Happy St. Patricks Day...

It is starting to turn to spring. I finally have the opportunity to roll down my window while driving... ah fresh air.

Just in case you wanted to know more...

MediaScraper

Well I found something today that will be able to provide me with meta data (along with much more) for my recorded TV... mediaScraper is a pretty neat looking program. I will play with it once I get home tonight. Hopefully I won't fall asleep before then!

Bachelor Party

We are heading up to Louisville for a Bachelor party today. It should be a lot of fun as we are getting all the old gaming group together to play... I was so excited I had a hard time sleeping last night! WOO!

Gone all Gone!

Well I was rash this morning and thought I had saved all my critical data before I formatted my hard drive... turns out I was right and wrong. The wrong was a biggie though. I lost metadata on 3 years worht of recorded TV for my HTPC! I have tried everything I can think of but, can't get that data back... oh well time to look at other possibilities.

The driving is done... here comes the driving...

Well we are finally in NY... I am slowly getting rid of my cold. I think by tomorrow I should be out of it... I hope! It was good sleeping last night so that is a good thing. We are all about to head in the van to the Diner and have breakfast. Grandpa is in the hospital... not sure how that is all going to go. We are driving down there after breakfast...I should drug myself up so that I don't have to sniffe in his face.

to NY

Well I am heading up to NY on friday to see my dad's side of the family... It is always a good time up there. It will also give me some time to relax. Maybe I can copy some of my TV to a HD I have and catch up on the hockey games I have missed... I need to find out of the AC converter is being brought up with...

Catching Mice...

Man I feel like a cat! I just caught two mice in my house. One had sadly died in a keep-alive trap I had set. He must have been in there for a little bit. And I found another snooping around in my garabe can. I promptly trapped him and took him over to the local middle school. He ran away quite quickly... at least he won't be in my home anymore. Make me wonder how many more there are! I definitely need to get my outside wall patched up to stop stuff like this!

Netflix...

Well I have been thinking about getting one for a while... I signed up for a trial 2 weeks and so far I have only got one movie. I do like the watch instantly option that they have and hope to watch some more tonight to see what the high picture quality is like...

I start officially paying for it tomorrow... I better get on the ball and watch!

www.netflix.com

Simpsons in HD!

I went to watch some of my recorded shows from the weekend and was surprised (and a little miffed I didn't record it on an HD channel) that The Simpsons has now gone to an HD format. When watching I could tell it was clearer and that I was missing out on the whole picture. I can't wait to see what it looks like next week with my recorder now poised to get an HD recording... I guess I could try to watch it on HULU.com but oh well...

VDay and hopes...

Well VDay was good this year... I actually had a date for once! The date was fun but, I didn't feel a spark with her at all. It was a good time in Downtown Louisville though...

I hope things keep getting better... they seem to have been getting that way over the past few years. I guess the thing to do is keep my chin and and keep going...

Bad new though... I heard that my grandpa has lung cancer yesterday. I am hoping that he is doing well and it turns out to be benign. I hope to see both my grandpa and grandma very soon...

Big Weekend

I am going on a first date this weekend (just happens to be valentine's day too!)... hopefully it will be okay. I have to make a trip of it but that is okay. I wasn't planning on doing much on Sat anyway. I feel good getting out of the house as much as I can lately! Sometimes it feels like I am trapped (literally!)...

Hockey game tonight as well... hopefully that is a good one.

I just found some panorama software and here is my first attempt!

Windy...

It is great when weather changes... lots of stormy weather. That is good stuff... maybe some good thunderstorms tonight. Hopefully no more damage to the house though! I found a small hole in the roof that was patched this weekend. Glad I noticed it quickly because of the recent rain...

Routine

It seems hard to get back into a routine since the ice storm... more than anything I feel like I have been doing nothing but playing catchup! Hopefully that won't last much longer and I can get to somethings I want to do like posting back here regularly... I guess the next few days will let me know if that will be a possibility.

Power is back!

It is so nice to have power back... I have been without since last Tuesday and it has been tough. But, a good thing that seemed to come out of it is that I dropped about 4 to 5 pounds! Woohoo! I have been busy recovering from Super Bowl... I had a bit too much to drink and payed for it that night and the next day. I am soo ashamed! :(

Well I am better now and have power back... maybe I can get back into a routine.

Snow?

Well the forecast for tomorrow calls for snow and ice... I am happy that I might get to stay home but, aprehensive that I might get my power knocked out. That would kinda be a good and bad thing... no work! (BUT) no play :(

Why won't the insanity stop!! If I don't want to talk I am NOT talking... how hard is that to understand!

Halfway there...

At least I can say that much. All the materials to finish up the computer room have been purchased. Now I just need to paint the trim, rip the floor out, put the new floor in, and finish painting... simple enough right!? I wish...

Boy did the local hockey team stomp the visiting team. To be fair it was only the visiting team's 4th game where we have played 5 times as much. At least it is good to win every once in a while!

Here comes the weekend...

Not much planned for the weekend. Heading out tonight on the town to see what trouble I can get into. Tomorrow will probably be a day to catch up on all of my tv homework... I have quite a bunch of it! I really want to do more on the computer room but, I feel like I am kinda strapped for cash. Who knows... maybe I will bite the bullet and just do it. (It definitely needs to be done!)

I have found a mouse living in the house (I am calling him mikey). I went to Lowes today to get a trap but, couldn't bring myself to buy it. Afterall, what is he hurting? He just hangs out in the kitchen scavenging... as long as he sin't leaving crap all over the place I think he will stay until I start to sell...

Shedding pounds

Well I did my weigh in this morning and lost about 4 pounds... not a large gain but, I think for a slow and steady pace it is good! I can't wait to see how much further I can get down. So far, I haven't been changing a whole lot but, rather cutting back on large meals. I pull back on portion size and sometimes instead of having a regular dinner, I just fix myself a bowl of applesauce. It seems to do the trick.

here is my motivation: caloriecount.about.com

A good day....

Ahh... what a good day. I was in training all day and got to watch the inauguration to boot. I am glad to hear that Obama wants to "restore science to it's rightful place"... makes me really hopeful about the future I hope will be there!

Check this out!!!!

Cold!

It has finally gotten officially cold for the season. Single digits?!? That is kinda crazy but, will only increase my heating bill... Not much has changed recently... I have been working on putting together all of my photos and documentation on the house renovation. So far I have all the text done and just need to upload the photos.

I can't wait until mid feb when TV seasons start back up again!

new pictures!

I just picked up some new pictures for the website! I should have a lot of information going up today.

We also start the Freeport Pathfinder today! It should be a lot of fun (at least I hope it is since I am providing most of it!)...

Old "Blog" entries

I just moved all my old posts from googlepages over to here. Looks like a few from 06 and 07...

Decisions, decisions...

Well I have gone back to my old website adn trying to add more stuff to it. It has been over 2 years since I last updated it! Man... that is too long. I have done a lot fo stuff to the house since then. So there should be lots to update. I think I need to get some pictures from my father's camera on some of the construction...

I might be going dancing tonight with a friend of mine. She is getting involed with some people from her work about a new dance instruction school that is opening up... I am not really hot to trot (pun intented) on dancing but, it is a lot better than sitting at home. I want to stay away from home tonight... but that is a big long story that I would rather not get into...

Well now I am just rambling... I have webpages to update!

Random thoughts...

I have been digging the website ted.com recently... it is a great source of thinker and interesting people. I can't seem to get enough of it! It really gets my geek juices going with all the possibilities that people talk about here...

Like this one!

Avoiding Aging

Gear up for Biggest Loser!

I actively vegged out and ate horribly tonight so that I could get the highest weight I possibly could for tomorrow's weigh in. We are doing a biggest loser contest at work. 5$ to enter and the one that looses the largest percentage wins some amount of the pot... well that kills two birds with one stone.

It puts a monetary value on me trying to loose weight (since I have been). That should be enough momentum to finally watch my portion size! Let's hope it works!

Sick Day

I thought I would have been able to jump right back into work but, apparently my stomach has other plans for me! I have been at home all day trying to work through all my recorded TV... I never realized how much I have to go thru!

My computer was being a little bit of a baby this afternoon when he decided not to send out any of my multichannel sound recordings. I had about an hour worth of tweaking to get it back to somewhat usable state... But, now I will never know if I am truly in multichannel surround sound... (poor poor pitiful me :P)

First Post

I am just trying out this blogging tool. I have a website that I haven't updated in quite a while. Since I was doing something like this on that website already I thought this might be a good idea to try. Also it might get me into good practice into taking some time each day to write something down!

This is a good link to start it out... 

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