Today was a pretty laid back day. I have been trying to keep myself busy doing things outside the house so I wouldn’t bother Sarah as she prepaired herself for finals week. So I decided to clean up my wire mess that I made for myself back when I wired up my house. It was a pretty big mess that needed to be cleaned up and organized but I never really wanted to take the time to do it. Once I got started it became apparent that this was no easy task with trying to keep everything in order so I’d remember how to hook things back up. After spending over 2 hours on it I finally got everything hooked backup right and the mess looks a lot better. I still have some work to do with it but I need to find a F81 Barrel connecting Block (if they even make such a thing) so I can run all the cables to a central point and just jump the ones I am using to the Satellite feed. I took some pictures after I was done and found some from before pictures from random bar pictures that I had…..
Before……
After…..
Much Better 
-B-rad
Mama kitty has been busy this week…two days ago she had baby kitties. At first Brad had counted 4 little ones, 3 white and one gray. Well today i peeked in at them and i found another one so now there are 5 little kitties. i wish i could just keep them all cuz they are soooo cute. I am gonna be one of those old ladies with 500 cats in their house-dam crazy ladies! well hopefully i can put a couple pictures up here for you all to look at (hopefully brad will help me.) If you look close you can count them, the little gray one is hard to see because it is on the bottom of all the other ones.
Sarah
So I went into work this morning at 3AM to do some maintenance on our exchange environment and soon after arriving I found that our blackberry service seem to have stopped working. I didn’t really mind to much because it actually gave me a chance to sleep without the constant interruptions caused by email pages throughout the night. After doing some research I found that the our Blackberry server stopped working at about 7:20PM. Now knowing that it wasn’t my exchange maintenance that caused any of the issues I began to dig….. and dig…… and dig…. Until my head was black blue and bloody from beating my head up against what was the largest concrete wall I could find. Then I decided that the only thing left beside calling there tech support would be to reinstall BES server… I vocally announced it to my co-workers that that’s what my plan was…. No more than 2 seconds later Chris, one of my co-workers, yelled to stop if I haven’t already started. He found in one of his RSS feeds that there was possibly a North American Wide BlackBerry outage. So after discovering this piece of information my blackberry started to work again…… YEAH!!!!!!! Kind of bitter sweet I guess…. On one hand I know that it was nothing wrong in our environment and its RIMs fault in its entirety, but on the other hand I wasted a couple of hours trying to figure the issue out. By now I see that everyone has information on it but I wonder why Blackberry support didn’t put this information up on their site. I spent a lot of time on their support site and if I had seen something up on there I wouldn’t have wasted all that time….. DAM YOU CRACKBERRY!!!!
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9016981&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2655&rss
-B-rad
I think we either have one of the stupidest cats or one of the smartest cats. Our gray cat, Shasta, likes to be naughty to get attention. But lately he has gotten worse. He will either go into our bedroom or into the bathroom and push on the door until it shuts. Once he does this he proceeds to meow continuously until you go and let him out. As soon as he is out he runs around and meows like he was all scared and worried about being locked in there. Well about two minutes after this whole show, he goes back into the room and tries again. He is a nut, and I think I am worse because I keep falling for it every time and I go and let him back out because I feel bad. I think this is a game he plays to make me go a little crazy or something!!!
Sarah
So this morning i spent about 30 min or so playing around with Macromedia Flash Professional 8. In that 30 min I created a basic image flash. Its kinda cool and I’m looking forward in playing more with the software to see what I can create. This particular flash file I created for the sponsers section on The Motorcycle Ride For The Mind website……
Check it out!
http://www.motorcyclerideforthemind.com/images/sponsers-v1.swf
-B-rad
So i decided that i was going to boycott subway today because they really pissed me off. I went there for lunch today with my mom and i ordered my usually veggie sub. Well today they informed me that the veggie sub no longer comes with cheese as does EVERY other sub on their menu, and that if i still wanted cheese it would be an additional $.30. Come on now…..how ridiculous!!!! Just the veggie sub doesn’t get cheese, this seems a little like discrimination for my poor veggies. And i know the $.30 wont break the bank (although it could) its the point of it! So i e-mailed them a nasty comment about what they could do with their new policies and vowed not to go there again until they change it. I guess i better get used to Quiznos!!!!!
Sarah
Kyle sent me a link to this site and its a pretty cool widget. Its the best baby countdown ticker I’ve seen so far…
check it out!
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/baby-ticker
Welcome all to my new blog on my new site. I plan to use this blog to give everyone updates on what I find interesting to me. Whether that be info about our new baby on the way, the fact the Humorist Art Buchwald died according to his son, info on the battle of Blue-Ray vs. HD DVD, info on the battle of the home gaming consoles, ect……
Please feel free to leave comments on any post you have something to comment on.
Thanks and Enjoy!
-B-rad