Just rambling. Unorganized thought. Posting on a whim.
Pretty good “TL;DR” (Too Long; Didn’t Read) of the Bible from cover to cover.
Yes, the “nailed it” in the headline was intentional. #TheCross I won’t lie, this made me laugh pretty hard. Props to the anonymous soul who made
Source: A guy posted a short version of the Bible on Facebook, and he absolutely nailed it
I’m now using Linux (Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit to be exact) exclusively at work on my computer and I LOVE it. Did I mention I’ve got a new job? I’ll get into that later. I just needed to quickly jot down a quick nerd-type-post and be on my way. I’ve got some stuff to throw out there about a family get-together so that will have to take more priority for the time being.
Changed around the look and feel of the blog. Again. There’s a method to my madness though. If I like it, I’ll buy it. Consider this more or less like a “kicking the tires” session. 
It’s almost as if it gets down to who is more stubborn (and I refer to my blog as a “who” in this case). Me, or as you may have guessed, the blog. What a pain! What a great learning experience. It’s like one of those challenges that you keep losing at but, because you’re determined enough to see it through no matter the cost, you keep pushing through. What started it all was that I updated part of the blog and it basically reset the ENTIRE thing. Not that this is at all interesting, I’m determined to make sure it’s working. I spent the next half a day (seemingly) reworking, fixing and resetting everything.
That’s what I love about WordPress blogs. They’re completely fixable. They’re completely customizable. They’re completely user-friendly. Even for people like me.
Now that I’ve band-aided it together, it’s off to start my taxes.
OK, I win. Got the danged thing fixed. It was my fault (as one would suspect). Now that we’re up and going, I’ll have more time to concentrate on adding actual content.
More to come. Hopefully sooner than later. For now, I’m uploading photos. Check back on the “Pictures” link.
I’m not sure that the image on the left really has anything to do with Easter (as a matter of fact, I’m about 110% sure it doesn’t!) but it’s a picture I like and since I’m the author here, I get to choose. 
Don’t get me going about pictures (see previous post) and we’ll all be happier!
I didn’t get to spend today with Sarah, Isabelle and Violet which was definitely a bummer because from what I hear, they had quite the time at Sarah’s parents’ house, surrounded by family. I can’t really complain, though, as I’ve had pretty much every other holiday off since I’ve been working on the north slope. Speaking of work and Easter, I find it odd that Easter is seldom a paid holiday whereas Christmas is. If you think about what each means, and I was talking to a coworker today about this, they’re definitely similar yet one is very seldom a “paid holiday” whereas the other one nearly always is. Just kind of odd, if you ask me (which you did, because you’re reading this).
For me, Easter is the reason we have the chance for eternal life. To live in Heaven with God. Jesus was resurrected after dieing and, because of that, God grants those of us who believe in Him eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven.
I’m curious to hear what Easter means to anyone else who reads this.
I’ll just say, I’m REALLY annoyed with this blog right now. I’m hoping my next post (tomorrow. cross your fingers) will have a much lighter tone to it.
I just wish software would work the way it’s designed to work. In the words of Forrest Gump, “That’s all I’ve got to say about that.”
Talk about a bad streak of techno luck. My laptop dies. My XBOX 360 dies (again) and my desktop computer decides to go on the fritz. Pretty much out of nowhere. It’s weird because it all happened at once!
At least it’s football season. Go Steelers. 
I’m one of those people who has bounced from “new shiney” to “new shiney” over the years when it comes to on-line tools and email providers. I’ve tried everything from using my ISP (blarg.net at the time) to Hotmail to just about everything in between. I went through a long phase where I was a huge fan of Yahoo. I was wholly against Microsoft buying them because I didn’t want to slip into the second coming of Hotmail. Yahoo had just released their Ajax-like version of their new mail system and I was QUITE happy with it. It wasn’t broke, don’t freakin’ fix it.
Anyways.
So. I decided one day, in a fit of boredom, to check out the services Google offered. You know, like most people are doing nowadays anyways. The last time I had really “checked out” Google was when Gmail was in early beta and you needed an invite to use it. I had received an invite from a friend of mine and wasn’t overly impressed with the early version of the mail client. It was just … mail. If I was going to switch from my beloved Yahoo!, it needed to be more than just … mail. So I decided to look into it a little more and, wow, I had no idea. From Google Documents, Google Calendar, Picasa to Google Voice, this is what I was looking for. I didn’t have the unlimited storage or the mega-sized attachments but I didn’t really need those, considering I have my HostDango.com email to use for (overly) large attachments. Not to mention, I picked up an iPhone 3G and pretty much everything I use in my Google account(s) works VERY well with my iPhone.
What is this post all about? Rambling, basically, about trying new things.
So today I ordered this thing from NewEgg.com. It’s supposed to make it so you can get an Internet connection through walls, or at least extend the crap out of your wi-fi range. Where I’m at when I’m at work, I’m probably 15 feet from the end of the Internet connection. Talk about frustrating. I had a room a while back that was able to (sometimes) get and keep an Internet connection. THAT was frustrating. At night, I like to sit and talk with the fam. There’s limited seating where you can do this and not have people walking by peering over your shoulder. It’s frustrating enough being away from the family but then having to share it with everyone else?
I think this will be well worth it.
