To say I've been busy would be a complete understatement, so let's just skip it. Sorry DB! I am a week behind on my daily pics, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel. I went on two interviews yesterday (thus the haircut). H had been saying for a week that I needed to get it cut in her cute little 6 year old ways.
I have spent the last week wrestling with OpenOffice.org, trying to get it to format things correctly and consistently. For some reason, I closed out the docs I was writing and the headers and footers messed up. GRRR! I ended up deleting them because the clock was ticking on getting on the road. Sometimes no matter how smart it seems to use open source software, you wind up failing on the grounds of semantics. I should know that after using this stuff for 10 years. Maybe it's my coaches from Junior High Basketball instilling the need for follow-through. I just don't know. I found myself exporting the docs to PDF to guarantee the formatting stuck. <insert some comment about how it's better than the M$ alternatives to save face> I would get better quality posting on Wordpress than using OpenOffice.org at this point. Maybe I'll start doing that.
Well, I am going to participate on DB a little more over the next couple days while I wait for some calls. Wish me luck!
To say I've been busy would be a complete understatement, so let's just skip it. Sorry DB! I am a week behind on my daily pics, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel. I went on two interviews yesterday (thus the haircut). H had been saying for a week that I needed to get it cut in her cute little 6 year old ways.
I have spent the last week wrestling with OpenOffice.org, trying to get it to format things correctly and consistently. For some reason, I closed out the docs I was writing and the headers and footers messed up. GRRR! I ended up deleting them because the clock was ticking on getting on the road. Sometimes no matter how smart it seems to use open source software, you wind up failing on the grounds of semantics. I should know that after using this stuff for 10 years. Maybe it's my coaches from Junior High Basketball instilling the need for follow-through. I just don't know. I found myself exporting the docs to PDF to guarantee the formatting stuck. <insert some comment about how it's better than the M$ alternatives to save face> I would get better quality posting on Wordpress than using OpenOffice.org at this point. Maybe I'll start doing that.
Well, I am going to participate on DB a little more over the next couple days while I wait for some calls. Wish me luck!
Damn, I love her so much! The way I can read her smiles in the texts, the way her tone of voice changes when I figure out how to put to words what she means to me. God, please grant us patience that we can develop this properly. We both need it after last year's debochles.
Damn, I love her so much! The way I can read her smiles in the texts, the way her tone of voice changes when I figure out how to put to words what she means to me. God, please grant us patience that we can develop this properly. We both need it after last year's debochles.
5445.1 in a little over two years. No complications. I love my xB! I'm going to budget for adding a small computer that syncs all my music for it this year. I am considering hacking a ZipIt like my daughter's with a huge SD card and making it sync wirelessly so I don't even have to take it out of the car. Getting tired of fumbling around with mp3 players that don't really do what I want or aren't charged when I want them. Trying to simplify and be able to just get in and go.
I was tagged by @GRRRRGirls for my goals of 2010. I went on a rant over at mikeschoon.com, so please check those out for more detail.
1) Less Facebook. I am streamlining my FB profile a lot. Already went on a mass cleanup on the apps and games yesterday. Just want to manage my time a little better on there.
2) More website projects. I love building websites and I want to add more after I get sourcetx.com off the ground.
3) In the past few years, I've been a little wreckless in my career goals. Okay, to be honest, I've been like a duckling that can't find his mother. I am going to look for a really serious company to work for and avoid smaller places.
4) DB Bonus goal: Get a decent digital camera. My point and shoot days are numbered.
I will tag
@Lemonlily74
@anniemal
@filmphantom
@chuckm
@LaurenIsFun
5445.1 in a little over two years. No complications. I love my xB! I'm going to budget for adding a small computer that syncs all my music for it this year. I am considering hacking a ZipIt like my daughter's with a huge SD card and making it sync wirelessly so I don't even have to take it out of the car. Getting tired of fumbling around with mp3 players that don't really do what I want or aren't charged when I want them. Trying to simplify and be able to just get in and go.
I was tagged by @GRRRRGirls for my goals of 2010. I went on a rant over at mikeschoon.com, so please check those out for more detail.
1) Less Facebook. I am streamlining my FB profile a lot. Already went on a mass cleanup on the apps and games yesterday. Just want to manage my time a little better on there.
2) More website projects. I love building websites and I want to add more after I get sourcetx.com off the ground.
3) In the past few years, I've been a little wreckless in my career goals. Okay, to be honest, I've been like a duckling that can't find his mother. I am going to look for a really serious company to work for and avoid smaller places.
4) DB Bonus goal: Get a decent digital camera. My point and shoot days are numbered.
I will tag
@Lemonlily74
@anniemal
@filmphantom
@chuckm
@LaurenIsFun
Argggh! Just had to get these cups when I saw them mixed in with Halloween stuff at the store.
One might ask why I refer to my resolutions for 2010 as goals instead. It’s simple, really. The more I think back to 2009 the more I realize that resolution isn’t the appropriate word for what I want to do. There is a process to meeting goals, resolutions are immediately assumed to fail. Resolution implies that what I want to do is reactionary and also that the first time I slip up, I might as well pack it up. So, with that said, here is my list of the things I want to reach for this year:
- LESS FACEBOOK - Social networking has gotten ugly. It is a good tool, but not an art. There is nothing artistic about “Liking” everything I see, getting nagged to take care of my fake fish, and finding out which president my personality most closely matches. I enjoy connecting with people, but Dailybooth is more fun in that regard: Add a daily photo, any photo, and people comment and interpret it. It is so much more interesting. Not sure if I will ever really delete my account with FB, but it is certainly getting less of my attention in 2010.
- MORE WEBSITE – I need to add more content to my sites. 2009 was the year of digging down into the nitty-gritty of Wordpress, messing with constant upgrades and doing SysAdmin and Developer stuff. This year, I am going to blog more and have fun with it. SourceTX.com is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites to work with and I want to start hammering out a lot of content. The idea is simple. I am going to start offering a place for authors, artists, and musicians to post one-off content and I am considering interviewing in the future. Kind of think of it as an online art magazine that never claims to be.
- GO CORP – The romanticism of being a part of a fledgling company that stands against all odds has kind of taken a back seat with me of late. I am going to focus on practicality in job offers this year and not delusions of grandeur in regards to being the next big thing. No companies that are buyout-bait or refer to their service options as “solutions” to add marketing value need apply. I’m ready for something real that clients really want.
These are the things I am going to work on. 2009 is done and gone. Time for a new decade and a new year. Wish me luck!
From the Family Room ~ Well, there's one thing I will say for the new cam: a LOT better white-balance. I'm still working on the settings to be able to just go to DB and hit "Snap A Picture". I also have to remove the tiger stuffy from the couch. LOL. A new view for the new year.
I am thinking it is time for change.
It is time to simplify things a little. I am on a quest for a universal remote. This is the assortment I currently use on a daily basis, and it is driving my six year old absolutely crazy. That’s not mentioning the fact that it is driving me crazy trying to keep them all in one place with a six year old.
From left to right, you have two Wii Remotes (for the Wii and also the Media Center), a Roku Player, the Magnavox DVD Player, the Philips TV, and the DirecTV Tivo Series 2.
I am very skeptical that I can find one universal device for all of them. The Wii Remotes will have to stay and are pulling more than their share of the load. I have my Media Center computer connected with them over Bluetooth as well as using them for normal gaming. The Roku Player is fairly new. I am hoping I can find something compatible, but might have to manually program it for that. The DirecTV, Tivo, DVD Player, and TV should work with most devices.
I am going to look at the Logitech Harmony and see what I can come up with. Anyone else have any suggestions?
