Archive | May, 2006

28 May 2006 View Comments

Do not panic

This is what I get when I boot up the MAC. This is not reassuring and cannot be good Tweet

28 May 2006 View Comments

There is no way it could happen twice.

To be honest, I am not quite sure what caused it. Not like it really matters, because it happened plain and simple. My harddrive croaked – Did you get that? It died. It ceased to function. It worketh no more. The past few days have all been such a blur, I am not sure if [...]

27 May 2006 View Comments

At the movies

Talon and I are sitting in the movie theater waiting for Over the hedge to start. The popcorn tastes like shit. They must have burned it or something. I’ll wait until after the movie to return it. Check this out, we are sitting at the back of the theater, with over 30 seats available and [...]

26 May 2006 View Comments

Microsoft releases Office 12 Beta 2 to the public

For those of you interested Microsoft has made Beta 2 of Office 12 available for the general public. My installs went pretty smoothly except for the of OneNote. It threw an error. I sent in the report, I guess we’ll see what happens in the next release. I might even try it again after a [...]

24 May 2006 View Comments

I am LOST and hungry for more

Season finale of LOST just finished. All I can come up with to write is Holy shit!! I will have to get my thoughts together, but it has definitely left me hungry for more! bah! Tweet

23 May 2006 View Comments

North Carolina lets murderers go free

You heard me correctly, apparently we here in North Carolina, do not care if parents make decisions that lead to their childs death. I know, crazy right? But have a read of this article and you will see what I mean. Now, one can assume (possibly) that the mother was a single mother doing her [...]

23 May 2006 View Comments

He’s hot blooded

… he’s got a fever of a 103.. he’s hot blooded, hot blooded… Talon came home yesterday from school with a slight fever. I had expected it to ease up by morning, unfortunately that did not happen. He has been kicking it at 101.7 ° this morning, then rollercoastering (new word?) up and down most [...]

21 May 2006 View Comments

That boy will be dangerous someday

We’ve had a pretty busy and eventful week(end). Friday evening we had a TaeKwonDo picnic at Womble park in HollySprings. There were three schools in attendance. We did a bit of bo (staff) training, then eats after that. Talon had a great time. He gets so excited when he does TaeKwonDo, I cannot help but [...]

19 May 2006 View Comments

The horse checked out ok

I took the beast to the vet’s this morning for her checkup. She’s a healthy horse and weighed in at 105 lbs. The visit cost a bit more than I had originally planned, but I had to pick up a 6 month supply of heatworm and flea stuff, so that added to the bill nicely. [...]

18 May 2006 View Comments

Teacher let kids skip gym class for $1

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) — A former gym teacher pleaded guilty to taking $1-a-day bribes from middle school students who didn’t want to change their clothes for class. Under his plea deal, Terence Braxton, 28, was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation for felony bribery, ordered to pay back the students at Ernest Ward Middle School, [...]