I didn’t compete this year but I had a great time regardless both at the tournament and the seminar before that. The seminar was fantastic as usual. Grand Master Willie Adams went over basics in excruciating detail with the explanation, “If you’re not doing all of these things, you’re not doing Karate.” Sadly, I’m not, but I will be trying. A very small part of...
Or at least hates my hard drives. I went to power up my workstation PC today and it started up as normal. After 5 minutes of use, the drive started power cycling. It’s still under warranty, but there is some data I’d really like to get off of it. We’ll see what I can manage. That’s two or maybe three hard drives that have either failed or started to fail in the last two...
The “tea room(An Afternoon to Remember Tea Room and Gifts)”: expansion is finally done and open for business. Hopefully this will be better for customers since they now have a place to congregate while waiting for their table in case they get there early. As a side benefit, it should increase sales as well. 🙂
Thomas made it on the honor roll for the second trimester in a row. Today was his award ceremony for it. Great job, Thomas! Also, earlier this week, he presented his science fair project on removing tarnish from metals. He did a great job on that as well.
UPDATE: Pictures of Thomas with his honor roll certificate are “here”: and “here”:.
It seems like every time I’ve turned on the news lately anytime the Iraq is mentioned the phrase “sectarian violence” follows. I’ve been paying attention to the news and media for a while now and I’ve never heard the phrase used with any kind of repetition in the past. I wasn’t totally sure what “sectarian” meant so I looked it up —...
So the other night, one of the hard drives in my RAID-1 (mirror) array triggered a failure. No biggie. The other drive was working just fine. The next day I went out to Fry’s and they actaully had the exact same model so I bought it and brought it home. I removed the old drive from the server and stuck the new one in, partitioned it and added the drive into the RAID. At about 99.99% of a...
Grrr… It’s been too long since I updated the site. A lot has happened. * Thanksgiving. Normal Thanksgiving celebration at the ranch. A major highlight was seeing Roger and Clarice’s baby. They were the cute, paranoid new parents not letting anybody hold the kid. * Kids got out of school. The boys has a long Thanksgiving and Christmas break. Given they modified traditional...
I tried to get an X-Box 360 pack from Sam’s Club this morning. Apparently they only had 20 units and they were all spoken for by the time I got there (around 6:40AM.) No great loss as I was simply going to put it up on ebay.
Amy got me a “smoker(Smoke’N Grill Charcoal Smoker & Grill)”: for my birthday and we finally were able to pick it up yesterday. To start out, I smoked some chicken breasts. They tasted great and I’ve got plenty to last me through the week. We bought a 15 lb. turkey today and I’m going to try smoking it for Thanksgiving. I’m thinking about a nice...
There has been a lot going on with the “Tea Room(An Afternoon to Remember)”: lately. Besides moving into the busy holiday season, we’ve put out a “new newsletter(Volume 3 Issue 1)”: and rolled out a “new website(An Afternoon to Remember)”: with an on-line store. The Tea Room is decked out for the holidays and it’s looking really nice. The one bummer...
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