I could not do this story justice by rewriting it. Make sure you read the entire story if you decide to start reading it. It’s pretty amazing how fast people with undeserved authority can overact entirely.
Have you had any experiences like this? I hope I get to experience it at least once in my lifetime.
It seems like only a few days ago that we were having a long weekend and we’re already having another one. I guess I better enjoy it because I’m not due for another one for a few months.
I’m really looking forward to the next year. I’m not exactly sure why, but I’m looking forward to it anyway.
I got a new website for free. I thought up the URL while listening to TWIT. Let me know what you think I could do with www.FunnyLookingURL.com.
Well, I have to admit that I told Christle around noon yesterday that I didn’t have to return to work until tomorrow, and she took it better than I had expected. We had a nice weekend. People came over, I smoked my first turkey (it took forever to get it lit), ate a big Christmas dinner, and played a few new games. Having company over this weekend was a pleasure.
That being said, I must return to work tomorrow morning, and I already know that my plate is full. Only three days in this week, and I’m fairly sure that I will not have much down time. I actually spent some time today placing some orders for work online.
I’m listening to a few new podcasts recently, and I’m planning to post a few of my suggestions soon. If you’re new to podcasting or interested in finding out what they’re all about, I’ll try to explain the process a little more in the future. The one thing I’d like to make clear up front is that you don’t have to own an Apple iPod to be a podcast subscriber.
I know I’m not the only person returning to work tomorrow or sometime soon, so good luck getting over the break and getting back into the swing of things.
Wow… was this week long enough? It seemed to creep by quickly even though I worked a lot while trying to get through it. I was trying to keep my posts up, but just didn’t seem to get to it as often as I’d have liked.
This has been a good year. There have been a few things we’d have skipped if we could have, but the good things have far outweighed the unfortunate.  I’ll expand on that next weekend, though.
I’ve got to get back to the gym. I haven’t been in almost 4 weeks! I’m going Tuesday morning. Really.
Merry Christmas!
I have disabled the option to let anyone register on here. I have gotten a few registrants who turned out to just be people who were trying to figure out ways around security and spam filters recently, and I don’t want to have to deal with someone new trying to get junk in here.
If you’d like to register, just shoot me an email with your desired username and I’ll respond probably within a day with a password for you. You can change the password when you log in again.
You don’t have to be registered in order to leave comments, though. So I’m not really losing any functionality on the site. I just wish there weren’t so many people out there trying to abuse the system.
I have tried multiple times with several types of printers and have never been able to print photos that had the same quality of film cameras that I had developed. Laser printers, inkjet printers, photosmart printers… none of them measured up.
I was browsing go2web20.net for Web 2.0 sites and stumbled on Cardvio.com. I was hoping that it would work, but when we got the test card back from them, it looked worse than some of the others I had done myself.
Last night, Christle said something to me about giving photos to family members this weekend at the Christmas party. I thought that there had to be a way of getting our digital photos printed quickly, easily, and hopefully cheaply.
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I went to Walmart.com and went to the services section where I found a service to print digital photos. I created an account, had 30 copies of our portrait printed in 4×6 in one hour for 19 cents each plus tax. Just over 6 dollars and we would hopefully have something worth sharing.
Christle picked them up and the quality definitely measures up to my standards. I wouldn’t be able to tell you if I didn’t already know that I had submitted these digitally instead of dropping off film.
I went online to order some of the ones that were of the girls and when I selected one hour photo, they said they’d be ready at 5:02pm today. I’ll change my post if there are complications with this order, but I just had to write about my surprise in the quality of this product.
I can’t seem to keep my desk clean!!! I get it just perfect and then I realize that I’ve cluttered it back up in what seems like no time at all. Why is it that I put stuff on my desk knowing that if I’d just put it where it belongs I wouldn’t have to deal with a cleaning job every week or two?
I don’t want to throw everything away because I may need it, so I have to make a concentrated effort to put everything where it belongs.
I’ve read countless stories of how to manage a desk/work environment so that it is always clean and tidy, but I can’t seem to apply the suggestions I’ve read to what I do on a daily basis.
What I am going to do over the next few weeks is try to develop a game plan for constant organization so that I will have a fresh start on the new year. If you have any ideas that may be useful, please let me know.
Just for reference, right now I have bills, a letter, receipts, my Bible, my Bible study guide, some bank stuff, a t-shirt, some tweasers, a few catalogs, a… thingy… that Alaina made for me, some loose change, a CD case filled with data CDs, and a rarely used external hard drive.
The time for Christmas parties has arrived once again. My first official Christmas gathering will be tomorrow night. There’s a Christmas show at church tomorrow night, where we’ll be having cookies and stuff afterwards. The kids are doing it, so it’ll mainly be all about the cookies… but it’s still my first “Christmas” event for the year.
I will be attending a Christmas party on Thursday and Friday. We’ll be having Christle’s dad’s extended Christmas gathering on Saturday, and then my Dad’s family gathering on Sunday. They both have their awkward parts… I will not be sharing any related stories… but it should be nice to see everyone, anyway.
Then I have to go an entire week without Christmas events. I’ll probably need a break anyway, though. I will be just rested enough to get back into the swing of things the following Friday night through Monday night.
Christle doesn’t read this blog very often. She doesn’t know that I have the day after Christmas off as a holiday this year. If she finds out, that’s fine. But the reason I haven’t told her, is because I don’t want to do anything that day but sit around and enjoy the day. I’m afraid that if she finds out too early, that plans might change. I don’t want that. If things work the way I’d like, I’ll probably get up and leave at the same time I usually go to work, and go work out. Then when I get done with a much needed workout, I’ll come home and say… “I thought I told you…”
Then I’ll show her this post, and we’ll have a nice laugh about it.
I changed my homepage to look just like the blog. It took a bit of work, but I think it turned out just the way I had envisioned it. It’s so difficult to find a template that I like that I had to jump on this one once I found it. Â
Let me know what you think of the new look.
Penn & Teller show why Environmental Hysteria is Bull***t!
Penn has a bad mouth, so don’t watch this with kids in the room, but the evidence they provide is as astounding as it is funny.
