double trouble

21May08

no no no not stevie ray vaughn’s band. the other kind. yep the twin kind. you heard me the identical twin kind. the ind that look exactly alike and are to be born to my wife in october some time. that kind of double trouble.

did i mention we have three other troubles running around at home.  i guess that’s what God gives you after you say you want four kiddos, God laughs and sez “how bout 5?”

looks like they will be boys as well. 4 boys and a girl. she will never date. not that i’m complaining.

so we are going to be a house full of trouble. a house mind you that we initially said that we would have to move out of once we have 2 kids. how about 5. is that enough. wifey and i think so – but the market won’t let us. 3 houses on our street are for sale not to mention the surrounding neighborhoods.  looks like we will be here a few more years. the best laid plans and all that.

no really we are excited……really!

.mike

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what i do not like

15May08

i do not like all of the ads on sites.

is it just me?

they get into the way of the page flow, they interrupt what you are trying to do, they distract you.

i know that is what they are supposed to do but man oh man do they piss me off.

i know sites have to make money, and banners are a way to do it.

it just bugs me.

call me shallow.

i calls them as i sees them.

of course i know the lack of capitol letters bug people as well, so go figure.

it is much the same as commercials on tv, at least when those come on you can go get a drink or something.

there should just be a sponsor page with all the blinking, scrolling banners you want.

but hey what do i know.

i think i’ll go grab a coffee.

.mike

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after a long weekend

13May08

after a 3 day weekend one might think that one would be well rested.

one would be wrong.

.mike

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good thing

06May08

it’s a good thing there isn’t a jackhammer working right outside my window.

it’s a good thing he hasn’t been at it since 8:00 this morning.

it’s a good thing i don’t need to concentrate.

it’s a good thing that we are out of coffee.

really.

.mike

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re-installing windows xp

01May08

a funny thing happened at work on monday.  a hard drive failed in one of my machines. odd, it is a dell optiplex 745 running xp pro, we purchased it maybe 6 months ago.  anyway after determining that i was indeed dead i contacted dell through the online chat.  15 minutes later i had a new hard drive being shipped.

on a side note dell’s service was quite good. i told the rep what i had done to determine that the drive was indeed dead, swap cables, swap drives, swap machines same result dead drive.  the tech said yep sounds that way to me, got some info and pow the drive was at my office the next day.

so i went about re-installing everything on a fresh drive.  i took a while but after i was done with the install and updates i rebooted the machine and almost fell over at how fast it booted up.  wow.  i guess the crap they load on it at the factory really slows it down.  i think i just may do that with all new machines from now on.  that may help.

later

.mike

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back in black

29Apr08

well i pulled out the ‘ol ac/dc cds.  still like listening to them 25+ years later.  just good old straight ahead rock-n-roll.  they will never amaze you with their song writing or music ability but there is still something to be dais for the thumping bass line and wailing guitar of angus.

takes me back to high school and college days.

boy i’m old.

later

.mike

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guitar lessons

25Apr08

well if you must know i am trying to learn guitar.  trying being the operative word here.  i’m not all that good.  still learning chords, strumming etc.  my friend dennis loaned me one of his guitars, and another friend robbie is giving me some guidance/lessons.  seems to be going well, u just need to practice more.  i really am enjoying this though.  i wonder why i never thought about learning sooner.  i always figured i learn the drums, huh who knew.

.mike

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audiophile in the making

23Apr08

i was walking through an un-named big box store that i swore i would never go into again. in my defense i was looking for a dvd player for my brother who is living in ireland. another story for another time. anyway i had all 3 kiddos with me. we walked into the “high end” stereo room. laughable i know. anyway my oldest son who is 5 stopped and listened to the music playing, some mozart if memory serves me correctly. and he said “i like this room”. i looked down at him, patted him on his head and said “save your money”

.mike

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change of format

23Apr08

well things have changed.  i still have my other blog about going freelance over here http://www.mikeostudio.com/blog. so i figured i would use this blog to put down all of my other random thoughts. which can be quite random i can tell you.

like right now i am thinking that i would like some more coffee.

i would like to move this blog over to it’s own domain. but until i can afford that i’ll keep it here for now.  hey free is free.

later.

.mike

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part 1 done

07Nov07

i have successfully installed wordpress on my site. now i have officially move my blog over there.  keep in mind that the formatting is still the basic wordpress theme.  i want to design my own theme. since i am a freelance web designer i should be able to handle a wordpress theme.  so off i go. oh yeah no more posts here. sorry that’s the price of progress!

later

.mike

ps – see you on the flip side

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