Back to school

Monday was back to school day for Thing1. God decided to bless us with a little bit of rain to wash away any dust there might have been - well anywhere.

This was the retention pond outside his dorm when we got there. It had been raining for an hour or so. Not real heavy.


After a couple of hours of incredibly heavy rain (it's really fun moving computers and guitar amps in the rain) the pond had a bit more water.



According to the news we got 2.5 inches of rain.

It took a while to get his stuff unpacked and organzied. I stayed around and helped him get his computer on the campus network. Had to install .net 2.0, deinstall AVG, install McAffee (campus license), and do a full HD scan before we could get a routable address. What a PITA. After a couple of hours of scanning he was online. I realize that colleges have to be careful but this is ridiculous.

Funny thing about being a college student - he still retains his inner child. Look at what he brought along to protect his room.



Unlike the first year there were no tears this time. Just a hug and I was off. He's becoming quite the fine young man.

Cheap Gas?

A Visitor

My sister Maggie was in town over the weekend for a CEU class. She had time to have dinner with us on Friday. Twas nice to catch up.

If you compared Maggie's high school graduation picture to Thing2 today - well they could be sisters. Separated by 34 years...

And the answer is

I like this answer to the question,

"How many guns do you have?"

More than I need, fewer than I want.

via a comment at Tam's View from the Porch

Hot Apples

They are on fire!

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All of the victims of 9/11 have someone remembering them.

Well done DC and my fellow bloggers!

Father and Son Reunion - In Iraq

But when his father recognized other members of his son’s B Company while walking to Camp Victory’s dining facility, he started frantically looking for his own son.

Within minutes the two were united with the help of an officer who intervened.

“All he said was, ‘Oh, my God,’ and he hugged me for what seemed like five minutes,” the elder Peter Joyce wrote.

They wound up spending the next five hours together, including sharing a meal together and shopping at the military base store.

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Best Drama - 24

Hell Yeah!

After giving the pile of crap known as The Office an award the Academy redeemed themselves by recognizing a truly excellent show.

I've been a fan since the first 5 minutes of season 1. Can't wait for January and Season #6.

Best Comedy - The Office?

What a craptacular show. The best comedy on TV is Scrubs.

WooHoo

Keifer Sutherland - Best Actor in a drama series.

24 just plain rocks as a show. Keifer makes it so.

And remember - Jack Bauer for Senate! Not only can he save the world but he can handle an award speech.

Designer dresses

Anyone else think that Julie Louis Dreyfuss' dress, with the black line/strap under the breasts, looks really stupid?

Thing2 Abducted

In a good way.

Our churches senior high youth group starts off every school year by 'kidnapping' the freshman and introducing them to the youth group - the high school way. Thing1 was McDucted when he was a freshman. They went off to McDonalds for breakfast before school.

Today a group of girls showed up on our doorstep at 6:15AM and woke Thing2 up with pots and pans and cymbals. She bounced right up and off they went. Fun and games and breakfast at Church and then bowling in their jams.

Picked her up 5 hours later. The whole group had a good time. So good that right now she's fighting off sleep as we watch a movie.

We sleep in tomorrow...

The Dew House

I know the guy who owns the house

It's a dogs life

The wife has a friend who's pug Elway just might like this.

 

 

 

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Invincible to Viruses

Thats what I just heard about OSX based Macs. It must be true. It was on TV.

hahahahahahahahaha

Profiled

Cox and Forkum nail it.

Brother Jesse

Living near Chicago means we get to see Jesse Jackson on tv a lot. Tonight he was on as he's heading to the middle east to attempt to get Steve Centani and Olaf Wiig released. While it's a noble effort something he said bothered me.

He stated that his mission was one religious man talking to another. Terrorists as religious figures? I know that they think they are doing Allah's biding but should Jesse should know better than to refer to these scumbags as religious.

Vista and Cygwin

I'm a huge fan of the Cygwin *nix environment for Windows. I've been using it at home for a couple of years with Windows XP. With my new system at work I skipped installing our standard X server Reflection and decided to use the Cygwin X server. The main reason for this was that Reflection insisted that my dual monitor setup was backwards. I prefer monitor #1 to the right and #2 to the left. Reflection wants monitor #1 to the left and complains every time and doesn't want to work right. Cygwin just works. My way. I like that.

 

So I have Vista Beta 2 running on a spare beater laptop. It's ok and for a slow machine it works ok. A faster machine would make it more usable. So today during class (Windows Security Event Log Secrets) I decided to download the latest Cygwin installer to the Vista box and install it. 99% of the install went just fine. The post-install scripts fail. Doing a bit of searching on the web and this is a known bug. Something changed in Vista to break Cygwin.

Nice move Microsoft.

High School - Day 2

She made it through. Still having a bit of a problem finding classes but it's getting better.

There is hope...

High School - Day 1

Thing 2 survived.

Her day started on Wednesday at 5:30 am. Way early for her but she got up and moving pretty quickly. When I got home from work yesterday she was all smiles. She had a bit of trouble finding a few classes but the upperclassman were very friendly and quite helpful.

We'll see how Day 2 goes today...