Saturday, October 10, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Four day weekend starts NOW
I am so happy that I have a couple of four day weekends ahead of me for the month of October. I was planning on going out of town to visit a friend of mine in Denver for 4 days but that plan fell through. So, instead of taking 9 days off I am going to hold off on the out of town visit and just take some extended weekends instead. Hopefully in January I can make the trip to Denver.
My experience with going back to school has been pretty good thus far. The hardest part was just making the decision and going through the hassles of getting registered and providing the school with all of the paperwork involved. Six weeks later and I am finding myself getting into a rhythm and figuring out when I need to do what. I work during the day and then I take a break and then hit the books. It makes for some long days during the week but if I get most of my stuff done during the week then I can have most of my weekends to myself.
For several months now I have watched a friend of mine at work lose weight using Take Shape for Life program. From what I can tell she took the weight off and has kept it off. Granted, she does not have to lose anywhere near what I need to lose but it works. Last week I made the decision to give it a 30 day trial. I bought my first months worth of pre packaged meals , snacks etc and starting on Monday I am going to give it a whirl. I have been reading on the support website of the men who have had a lot of success with this program as well. The key to the success is to stick with the program as it is designed and not cheat. During the day while I am at the office I should not have too much problem with this program. At night and during the weekends that is when this will be the most difficult. I may have to buy Katy a tranquilizer gun or a taser to keep me in check. I am thinking that once I see the pounds coming off that will be all the motivation I will need to stay on the program.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Dallas who ?
Has the billion dollar fish bowl gone to the cowgirls heads or what? I just sat through one half of a football game to watch the Dallas field goal kicker miss a 40 yard field goal and the Dallas offense is sputtering worse than a two bit lawnmower with bad gas. The offensive line is going to get Tony Romo hurt if they dont do a better job of protecting him. I am also thinking that the coaches need to teach the players in the Dallas secondary how to tackle someone. You can not tackle someone that is the same size as yourself or bigger by slapping them with one hand on the waist line. This is not touch football girls this is the NFL. If you can not tackle someone please go sit on the bench and let someone else that can tackle get on the field. If Dallas can not beat the Panthers tonight then the season is absolutely over for them. How in the world will they be able to compete with some of the more high powered teams in the NFL? The answer is they can not.hope to compete playing like this. If Dallas plays like they did in the first half then they will lose the game. I wonder how it felt to the Cowboys when they got booed at the end of the first half?
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Out of money?
How often do you go to the bank to cash a check and they turn you down because they are out of money? I got off of work early today to go to NBSC on Folly Rd and when I showed them my student loan refund check they told me "we are sorry but we are out of money until tomorrow afternoon when the Brinks truck arrives". I thought that certainly there must be some mistake for a bank to be out of money. Make no mistake sir the teller said, Trident Technical College gave out all the refund checks at once and gave us no warning whatsoever. That means that it was a first come first serve situation at the bank today. All of the brances for NBSC were out of cash , not just the one on Folly Road. I was told to come back to the bank tomorrow afternoon and they might have enough money to cash my check. I am thankful that I just got paid and I can be patient while the bank replenishes its supply. No, I do not want to depost the check in my account so my bank can put a 10 day hold on it. I would rather just cash it and put the cash in my account.
I am surprised to see that I have 7 people subscribed to my posterous blog. I can understand why my wife and close friends might want to hear my driveling but what about the rest of you folks? In order to reward you for your subscription to my blog I have in turn subscribed to your posterous blog as well. Thank you for tuning it to my occasional drivel about this and that.
So far my adventure back into the halls of academia has not been overtly painful. The experience of getting registered was more than irritating but with tons of patience and keeping the phone lines hot I managed to come through that process ok. Financial aid came through to pay for school for this semester and next semester so I now join the ranks of students out there that now owe a student loan once we get out of school. Yeah me!!!
The first three weeks of school were busy but I adjusted my free time schedule to where I spend most of it studying but still have time to do a couple of things I like to do. It basically works out this way. I study for 3.5 hours four days a week and then I use the weekend to finish up any papers that are to be written or project assignments that must be done. When I read a chapter I go over the chapter summary notes and then I go straight to the quiz and take it while the material is still stuck in short term memory. That seems to work better than reading the chapters on Monday and Tuesday and then having to wait until the weekend to study the notes all over again to refresh my short term memory and then take the test. I guess everyone has their system and as long as it works for you that is all that matters.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Windows 7 and XP dual boot
In the last couple of weeks I have been using Windows 7. Thanks to being a student and an associating between MSDN and our school we have access to download the OS and take it for a spin. I installed Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude E6500 with an 80 gb hard drive and 2 gb of ram. I downloaded the ISO file and burned it to a DVDRAM disk with iamgeburn which is a free image burning utility. The install process took about the same amount of time as any other OS. During the disk partition selection process I carved up my hard disk into two separate partitions so that I can dual boot Windows 7 and XP professional or Linux depending on what strikes my fancy later on.
I was very impressed with the install process which gave me no problems to mention. All of the drivers for my E6500 were found and I have been running Windows 7 without any incidents. I was highly impressed that the Cisco VPN client for Vista installed and worked with no problems. I installed Office 2007 , MIRC and several other programs that ran just fine. Windows 7 has the same look and feel of Vista but I have to admit that it runs much better. One of the features that I like on the start button is the ability to type the name of the program and it will give you a selection of applications you can click on. Another program that I love is the Snippet Tool which is similar to SnagIT 8. The Snippet Tool allows you to take a screen shot of any portion of your sreeen that you want. This is a very useful tool if you are doing any kind of documentation and you need to show people screen shots of what you are talking about.
Today I had a break in the action so I made the mistake of installing Windows XP Professional SP3 on the second partition of my hard drive. Everything went just fine and then the laptop rebooted. Windows XP came up just fine but access to Windows 7 was gone. POOF!! Luckily for me I had not mistakenly overwritten the wrong partition during the install phase. I installed XP to the second partition but I guess that XP overwrote the boot.ini file and replaced it with one for itself. Needless to say I was a bit panicked after all the hours I spent installing software and configuring Windows 7 to be my primary OS. I did what I always do when I have a technical problem and I started surfing the Net on the different techie forums looking for the answer. I found a lot of information however I did not find the answer I was looking for. I fixed the problem by booting the laptop to the Windows 7 install media and it gave me the option to repair Windows. Repair windows had five or six options and one of them was to fix the boot up process. BINGO!! I selected that option and a dos prompt popped up in the bottom left portion of the screen and it magically fixed the issue. I rebooted the laptop and now Windows 7 is once again available to me.
I still want to dual boot another OS with Windows 7 so I will have to do some research on HOW to do this and then I will let you know what I find out.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Cowboys made me proud today
Living in the Lowcountry means that Dallas Cowboys fans are very hard to find. I had to go to King Street Grill this afternoon to watch the Dalls vs Tampa game and I was surprised to find four other Dallas fans that wandered in to watch the game. At first I was a little bit concerned about the Dallas defense as I sat there and watched Caddillac from Tampa run through Dallas like they were swiss cheese. The field goal kicker for Tampa missed two field goals which did not help their cause. I was very suprised to see the Dallas passing game burn the Tampa secondary for three touchdowns. Dallas wins 34 to 21 which made this Cowboy fan right proud.
Friday, September 11, 2009
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