Shut off email.  No seriously.  Shut off email.

I’ve been trying to get backups reconfigured at work for months now.  Everytime I try to work on it, something else comes up.  So today I put up a “Do Not Disturb” sign, and ignored my email.  I actually got real work done for the first time in about a month.  My day usually consists of one constant interuption after another and “please, will you do this little thing” which “little thing” invariably takes over the rest of the day preventing me from finishing the work I really need to do.

After getting backups where I wanted them, I checked my email and realized none of it was very critical, though everybody thought they had a really really important thing that had to be done right away.  I think I am going to keep the “Do Not Disturb” sign, and next time shut off the phone as well as email.

So last night I was looking through the Sunday Paper fliers, and found that Circuit City was running a sale on the laptop I had just bought.  The new price is what I actually wanted to pay in the first place, instead of what I ended up paying.  So I checked their website and they have a 30 day price guarantee.  Yippee!

So what does this have to do with dentistry? Well, I had the first half of a deep teeth cleaning done this morning.  Not lots of fun, and they numb up one side of your mouth/face.  It took about an hour and a half for the cleaning.  I listened to music on my Zune so I wasn’t totally bored (an idea I got from Steve Roberts). After the cleaning I headed over to Circuit City, and with half a numb face requested the price guarantee.  Which they gave me.

After I got my refund I headed out into the mall and joined up with my family for the end of their walk with the grandparents.  Then we did a bit of shopping and we came home.  I decided to play with the websites a bit, and sometime while trying to figure out Joomla to get a start on the GeoCon site, I could feel my face again.

Yes, I know, GeoCon is dead. Has been for lots of years. But, I like playing with web stuff, so I now have a site back up for GeoCon. Why? Because I can.

Someday I plan on putting up all the content I have for GeoCon, which will include scans of the program books as well as what pictures I took.  If I can ever find any of this stuff.  It has been a while.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Physical Touch.

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Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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I recently moved the website over to Dreamhost, and now I can have sub domains (like the one you are reading).  While looking at the web applications Dreamhost has available for install, I found phpGedView, which is a genealogy web application.  So I put it on heritage.dragonbard.com.  Software hasn’t excited me this much in along time.  It’s very interesting getting everything put in, and seeing trends and similarities within lives.

Well, here we are.  Yet another year has gone by.  For me, last year started with moving the Eastern Region office, then in the middle of the year we installed the network at Cama Beach, then at the end of the year we moved Headquarters.  I feel like all I did was travel and move things last year.  I hope this year will be a bit less hectic.

At least I got to go by Steve Roberts Nomadic Research Labs and see all the cool stuff while I was on Camano Island.

Had to take a picture with the web cam (mostly to play) because the baby was so cute in her fit.  Unfortunately she is faster than the web cam.  I’ll have to try video next time.

Mad Baby

This is a test post from my centro.

It appears that my old laptop is dead.  I was working on the site when our dog brushed past me and a charge of static zapped through my hand into the laptops headphone port.  A half hour later the laptop blue screened.  I finally got it running again for a half hour before is blue screened again.  Now it will only run about five minutes before dying.

Needless to say I was not happy.  So I went out and bought a very nice new HP laptop.  AMD with ATI graphics and Vista 64bit.  Three hours I tried to get it on the wireless network.  Just when I was about to give up, I tried entering all the connection data manually one more time.  And it worked.  Annoying.  The automatic process insisted the router was not talking to me at all.  Apparently some change with Vista makes the automatic association process break with some “older” routers.  Mine is only about a year and half old.  Tried the latest firmware updates, tried everything I knew.  Then it just worked.  These driver stupidity issues is why people hate Vista.