A nice Saturday

Here I am sitting outside (I know…shocking) and the dogs are outside with me.  Zephyr is sitting up on the hill and Beatrice is now chasing Zephyr around. 

It’s good to see BZ up and going this morning.  Yesterday Amy took her to the clinic and she had a dental.  Now I’m not really 100% sure what happens during a dental but I do know that they do knock the dogs out with gas, and Beatrice apparently doesn’t respond too well to the anesthesia.   When she got home yesterday she was very tired and really wanted nothing to do with anyone (even Zephyr.)  It was really strange.  This morning she was still a bit out of it, but it seems like this being outside is helping her get herself back together.  Maybe a bit of ball play would wake her up…hmmmm…I’ll do it in a bit. 

Today also marks the first time that I’ve tried out the Suns Virtual Box Virtual Machine system that I found on Lifehacker a few days ago.  You can Google virtual box and you’ll get what I’m talking about.  It’s actually a really nice, really simple to set-up VM client, sort of like the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.  This one is totally free though (big bonus.)  I downloaded the latest flavor of Ubuntu this morning Jaunty Jackalope, so far so good.  Since it’s really my first time with a full blow version of Linux to mess around with on my own, I’m really going to have to dive in over the next few days and see if Linux really has become as easy to use as everyone now claims it is.  I have messed with Ubuntu previously, about 3 or 4 years ago, and I know many improvements have been made since you now get Ubuntu installed on your Dell machines.  I’ll let you know how it goes. 

Ok, so Beatrice is looking at me being very hot, so I guess it’s time to go inside.  I’ll write more later.

~C

Tuesday Night Rant

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here so I thought I should get something here.

Life has been pretty crazy since we got back from Louisville.  Work has been really busy, since we still only have two IT guys it’s pretty nuts.

Home life has been nice though, we had some friends over last weekend which was very nice and we’re going to have a birthday party for Amy this weekend so that should be good time too. 

Now, onto the real meat and potatoes of this rant…more random stuff :)

Fringe: If you haven’t seen this show, you need to either turn on Fox right now or check out the Fringe channel on Hulu http://www.hulu.com/fringe.  It’s an awesome show.  More of a mix between Bones and X-Files.  Since I am an X-Phile and also a huge fan of Bones, it’s pretty much the perfect show for me.  It’s been on a 2 month hiatus back at the beginning of the year due to the beginning of American Idol, the election, and then all of the presidential press conferences.  It’s no problem though since the show is SO AMAZING! 

HULU: Another one of those super amazing things…streaming TV…how cool is this?  I know I’ve talked about this some before, and also just linked it above, but it’s really great.  Mostly they have Fox, NBC, and CBS network shows, but it’s limited commercials, plus they also have movies, mind you only old ones and less popular ones, but still, you can find an occasional gem on there that’s good for a laugh, or good when you have about 2 hours to kill. 

Games: Not really much new on the gaming front for me, still playing TF2 (not much recently though.)  Did bust out some old school StarCraft recently though, that was a good time.  It made me realize how much I really need to practice before getting back into the LAN party world since I used to be able to tear up some StarCraft, but I couldn’t really even keep up with the AI when I played, it was a strange feeling.

Ok, Fringe is on, I’ll post more later on.

~C

Post from Louisville

For the past 3 days Amy and I have been in Louisville for a wedding. Amy's old college room mate Ingrid got married today. It was a beautiful wedding and a good time at the reception.

Amy and I decided to make this a full blown road trip...we started out leaving early Wednesday morning, and headed off to Tennessee to visit my mom's parents (which Amy had never met.) Then we left Thursday afternoon to come to Louisville to hang out with Ingrid and her fiance and attend the wedding today.

It's been a great trip. We got to see the Jim Beam Distillery...awesome! Aside from being pretty cold, it was a good time and even got to sample a few of the products from the factory. It was great. After that Amy and I went to Zappos, for those of you who don't know this is a massive online shoe store and they have a big outlet store in Louisville. They had great deals on shoes and Amy was able to score 4 (yes, count 'em 4) pairs of Dansko's for the price of one normal pair...craziness. Amy is super excited though cause now she has Dansko's that will last her a super long time.

In other news, not much else has been going on as far as gaming goes. Hopefully I'll be able to get some TF2 play in soon, I'm hoping to get my Medic fully upgraded with all the new weapons so I can be a much more effective medic for the team. I'll let you know how it goes.

Well, it's getting late and Amy and I have to get up early to start back on what will probably be a 10 hour trip home. I'll post more later on.

~C