Amazing Walkthrough

I don’t know honestly how to deal with this. I have a co-worker who has honestly told me, “I won’t register to vote because the first Bush election has proven to me that my vote doesn’t matter, but if I did vote, I would vote for Ron Paul because he has the changes I want to see.”

REALLY??? Are you that jaded? Why even select a candidate to support if you aren’t going to vote? I can understand supporting one candidate. I may not agree with your choice, but I will respect you more than if you just spout some drivel without having the cojones to actually back it up with placing your vote.

I just realized that I am going to have to spend most of the day next to this tool that is going to be one of the causes of the movie Idiocracy (if you haven’t seen this movie, it is not family appropriate or really all that redeeming of a quality but it is funny and sad commentary on where the world could be coming to) to becoming a reality!

“Electrolytes, it’s what the body craves!”

Thanks to AzJade (you going to get a new nickname due to your recent relocation?), I now have a new widget on my blog. It is called Black Boxes. While I can’t make any promises as to the content of the linked blogs, it is a cool element that may take you to a new site or a new place to read. Heck, I already have a new link under the other blogger.

I can’t skip Halloween completely now can I? No, probably not. I know of a certain blogger who has BIG plans for the holiday and with Nancy having to work that night, I am very hopeful that we may be a part of that.

Besides, the theme I wanted to use for Christmas needs some tweaking and I haven’t had loads of time for those changes yet.

Yes I said it.

Yes, I am listening to it too!

That’s right, I am now listening to Christmas music! WOOT!

The theme on the blog is coming soon.

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Merry Christmas!

The other day, as I was doing something on my PC my iTunes kicked up a song called “I Can Hear the Bells”. My little 4 year old darling Sydney came running in and said, “Daddy, that is from “Hairspray”!” and she started to dance!

Maybe I might have watched that movie a time or two too many times with them around?

Haha!

Last night, a friend of mine told me about the dissolution of her marriage to another friend of mine. I haven’t heard the other side of the story of course but I do feel for both of my friends. They have always had a difficult life. They have struggled through life and through faith. Now I don’t know the whole story or everything that they have gone through but it is a sad event. So I guess the song that I am listening to right now is appropriate, “Goodbye Love” from Rent. Lyrics below:

Mark:
Mimi still loves you
Are you really jealous or afraid that Mimi’s weak
Roger:
Mimi did look pale
Mark:
Mimi’s gotten thin
Mimi’s running out of time
And you’re running out the door–
Roger: No more! I’ve gotta go.
Mark:
Hey! For someone who’s always been let down who’s heading out of town?
Roger:
For someone who longs for a community of his own, who’s with his camera, all alone?
I’ll call. I hate the fall.
(Mimi enters)
You heard?
Mimi:
Every word
you don’t want baggage without lifetime guarantees
You don’t want to watch me die?
I just came to say
goodbye love, goodbye love
came to say goodbye love, goodbye
just came to say
Roger: Glory
Mimi:
goodbye love
Roger:
One blaze of
Mimi:
goodbye love
Roger:
glory
Mimi:
goodbye love goodbye
Roger: I have to find
(Roger leaves Benny enters)
Mimi:
please don’t touch me understand I’m scared I need to go away
Mark:
I know a place, a clinic
Benny:
A rehab?
Mimi:
Maybe could you?
Benny:
I’ll pay
Mimi:
goodbye love
goodbye love
came to say goodbye love goodbye
just came to say goodbye love
goodbye love goodbye love goodbye love
hello disease

So a friend of mine pointed out this page. Wordle.net so here are my results:

If you have seen my Twitter over to the right, you may have seen that I have been out of it for a couple of days. I had a tooth removed. Now two days later, I have a cleaner backyard (thanks to Clint and the young men), one less tooth (thanks to my Dentist), a new window (thanks Jim Leedy), and a new place for a garden.

After the rain, I am hopeful that it might be easier to start. At the same time, I wouldn’t mind putting in a couple of small cement beds (one for my barbeque grill, one for our bikes so that they could have a good place to sit) and then using another part to build a small garden.

At least that is the plan… and you know the best laid plans …

So it has been a couple days since I have updated. Let me just throw a warning out for you.

Get a good Antivirus program and stick with it. Nancy’s boss had some virus protection and it apparently expired. Then a program called Antivirus64 installed on her pc and it took me two days, and a new network card to get it all removed. I can suggest AVG Antivirus. It is free. It keeps itself updated and catches about 99.9% of the viruses. There are some upgrades to that program which will cost you, but the company who made the program has promised that they will always provide and update the free version.

Also, please for the love of all tech support, get Firefox and use it as a browser. It blocks more pop-ups than Internet Explorer (also known as internet destroyer in tech support circles), and general is not quite as exploited as Firefox.

I can also suggest that you install the plugin for Firefox called Noscript, which will prevent the scripts running automatically when you load a webpage which is what those scriptkiddies/virus designers are looking for you to use.

And that is your tech support tip for the day.

Also, stay away from World of Warcraft. Seems to be addictive. At least it is for me!

• They know better than anyone how to destroy a room.
• They know how to climb to heights unassailed by any other child of their age… as long as there is a treat in the end.
• They know how to put off bed time by talking to each other for hours on end.
• They know how to wrench my heart by pleading to finish watching this movie or this event.
• They know how to get dessert after dinner after I told them no in the afternoon.
• They ultimately know how to turn my heart from my steel exterior to the soft marshmellow internal with something as minor as a scraped knee or a hurt feeling.

What brought all this up? Well a few weeks ago, I had cleaned the mutants room with tons of help from Mo, and some work with Herman.
I promised them a new computer which my friend Cedar had put together.

For the last two weeks, they have summarily destroyed the room. Now, of course those of you who know Nancy and I, know that we are not the cleanest of folks. I try hard to do better. I have been much more efficient in cleaning and cooking more balanced meals. I have also corrected some of my worse habits of not clearing my own plates/clearing my own clothes.

Last night, I broke the final straw. I went in to retrieve a piece of their computer in order to troubleshoot a computer for Nancy’s boss. As I stepped into the room, I fell over a toy. Into a pile of our dvds. Then the computer was pulled apart (not totally but they had been moving it as the video card was moved and so forth.

Today, I have a new media pc for the family room.