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Boy the Bear's Age Gauge Warning - it might make you feel old. I'm glad I'm less than 1/2 the age of the pope! :) And he is younger than Cronkite.

An interesting bit of hardware hacking from old hard drives. Sounds like somethings I would do! :) Hard Drive Wind Chimes / Keychains @ wingie.org The link came from my sister who thought of me when she saw it. I guess I have a reputation!

You Are 45% Left Brained, 55% Right Brained The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports. Are You Right or Left Brained?

I created this blog one year ago yesterday. My sister noticed and reminded me. But do I really count this an my blog anivsary? I only made one entry on 2/26 and then one on 3/9. I really started more seriously blogging on 5/10.

You are What Rejected Crayon Are You? Is that nice? Hmph!

You are What Rejected Crayon Are You?

Well - I'm supposed to change shifts at the end of the month. But my counterpart on support asked me to change early. He wanted a week on early shift in a month. So he suggested switching four days early. I didn't realize until he came by later, is that he wanted to switch as of tomorrow! Get off 6am shift early. Hm. I don't mind that a bit. I might mind it more when I have to work almost 5 weeks of 6am shift in a month. But right about now it sounds great! Okay - I've felt more balanced with the workload on early shift. Hopefully it won't seem too bad with the workload on later shift. Heck - it might be better - I'll rarely have leftover work to get in the way of my 2.5 hours dev time.

Up a Wall Again We went to Estes Park for 2 nights this weekend. There was a rock climbing wall at one of the local sports shops. It was quite extensive. I went up 3 times. I did better this time. My arms didn't cramp up, and I made it up all 3 times. It was really fun. I could get into doing this. Other than the cost, of course. :)

Picture Theme Protective A worker in a protective helmet and orange vest - behind a work screen taken through a chain link fence. For Moody Monday

Today was an interesting day. Yesterday, the boss told us that starting today, we were going to split the support. This means that the morning person does support until 11:30, and does development type work in the afternoon. And the afternoon person had time in the morning, and would do support from 11:30 on. I also had a big piece of programming to get done by this afternoon. I had come up with this idea for putting a wrapper around a 3rd party download program. This would allow us to automatically send emails after we do a file transfer. The big reason for the pressure is that we have over 900 jobs that do the type of file transfer we want to add emails. And we don't really have a budget to get it done. And my boss' boss really wants it done very quickly. So my boss promised his boss I would have a demo ready by this afternoon. This would have been pretty tough in normal situations. But I had a number of things working against me. I had to do support for 5-1/2 hour...

Well - it is no longer sore and burning. Just rough and a dash tender. Much better than before. Now if I only didn't feel like I'm getting a cold! Vitamin C and Eicinata for me!

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fell on the same day. As Air America Radio pointed out [unverified], "It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog."

Valentines Day seems to be a big day for bloggers. Here is a list of my blog buddies talking about Valentines Day: Autowitch - Special Valentines Linkies Trinity - H V D   Trin's Feb 14th   Discovery Channel Disses the Valentine's card   Value your wife? Value your life?! Infinity Pie - "How do I see You?" Glimpse of a Grrl - Happy Valentine's! Simply Geeky - Chocolate Day Anna Banana - Almost forgot - Happy Valentines Day! What THHLN - Red Oxymoronic Existence - Update Woulda Coulda Shoulda - On Love Aurorealis - Sweethearts Average Jane - Average Jane's Valentine's Day Black Daisies - Happy Heart Day Dusting My Brain - Happy Valentine's Day A Day In The Life - Happy Valentine's Day... penn - Vday, Sleep, and more Chris Pirillo - Valentine Flowers! Chaos Girl - Happy f'ing Valentine's Day. My Favorite: Futuristicky - Robot valentine I know Valentine's Day can be a bit of an emotional land-mine - but I wish everyone a great day, rom...

Found on: infinitely pie 1. Reply with your name and I will write something about you. 2. I will then tell what song[s] remind me of you. 3. Next, I will tell you who you remind me of, celebrity/animated or otherwise. 4. Last, I will try to name a single word that best describes you. 5. Put this in your own blog.

I had an odd rash this evening. It felt like my shirt was rubbing me wrong. Along my sides on my upper back. Burning and sore into mhy muscles. Ang the odd thing is that I had a similar experience the day before last. It was a similar rash - but the worst spot was where my palm in my shirt pocket was pressing into my skin. It really hurt then too. Sore muscles. So I'm thinking maybe these two shirts got washed with my wife's power detergent she uses for her massage sheets. And I'm thinking I'm not washing any of my clothes in that detergent again. - Took the boys to a playground this afternoon. Had a pretty good time. All for now.

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Aurorealis' entry about search engine strings that match on a blog made me want to check my search terms. I do this occasionally anyhow. But I found some interesting things. I'm #1 in yahoo for /phs wifi/. windowsformsparkingwindow is still popular. And since the Tsunami, I've had regular hits on strings /ocean pictures/ But one interesting link to my blog was from a search engine I'd never heard of before: Mooter - Web Search It returns results in 'clusters' - with a starburst to keywords. It has an 'esc' boss hotkey (javascript). Shift-click did not work to open a new window :( But the results were interesting to say the least. Worth a look!

Internet Daily: Blogger booted by Google It is really sad that some people are finding that they do not have free speech if their employer says otherwise. :( And to hear that Google has done this is even more saddning.

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This morning, instead of sun, it was very foggy. It was kinda cold. As I was driving to work just before 6am, I noticed the car was handling a little oddly. So I pressed on the breaks. Ice. Black ice. The road had a thin coating of ice, that you couldn't tell was ice, it just looked wet. So it was a slow, careful drive to work. I was glad that there aren't as many cars on the road at that time. When I got to work, I debated parking under, but I felt sure it would warm up and get sunny during the day. But I was wrong. It was foggy all day. And cold all day. So as I was driving home everything windward had a coating of ice on it. Here are a few pictures I took close to dusk. Japanese Maple Leaf with Ice - Flash Ice crystals Ice on the bush out front Foggy Ice on the tree out front icy Fog

Boing Boing: Copyrighting the Eiffel Tower Wacky - the image of the Effel tower at night is copyright by the city of Paris.

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