April 2007

I’m Up…Barely

rmiles7721April 4, 2007Parenting/Family

Somehow I have managed to drag myself up and out of bed this morning. The alarm went off about 40 minutes ago so I started coffee and lay back down on the couch until it finished. I just woke back up again. Luckily I set my alarm on the cell phone to wake me up or I would still be snoozing away. I hate going back in having no sleep like that. It makes for a very crappy first day back. I will have to make sure and take a short nap this afternoon when i get home.

Even as a teenager my sleeping habits sucked. Although I would have an occasional day where I would sleep until very late in the day I was normally the first out of bed among my friends. Once I get to sleep I am OK, but if I am awakened for any reason I have the hardest time getting back to sleep for an hour or two, occasionally even longer.

If it weren’t for the fact that I have to go in a little early today I probably could sleep longer for a change. I can barely keep my eyes open this morning, which is one of the reasons I am working on this as an exercise to wake my mind up. Something along those lines anyway.

I haven’t looked outside yet to see if it is still raining or not. It was storming pretty heavily when I was up earlier, but it sounds as if most of it has moved on past. Just checked the weather and we are supposed to have rain (duh) and turn into just a partly cloudy day later. That works for me. It means it won’t be too hot. My plants all need the rain anyway. The flowers and other things are starting to look really nice and this will only help.

Back to Work

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Ten days of vacation. Man. I do not want to go back to work today at all. I will probably get to meet the new division manager today. My boss is off so I am supposed to help out one of the new managers with closing out her paperwork. It is shaping up to be a long day already, but perhaps I can get out of there at a decent time.

The Wife and kids are out on Spring Break until next week. She has to go back on Monday and the kids go back Tuesday. Luckily I get next Monday off so will spend the day with them. Unluckily I only have one day off next week because it’s a holiday.

More About the Chocolate Jesus

rmiles7721April 3, 2007Site News

Some of you will remember my post last week about the Chocolate Jesus:

I spent a couple of hours at the hated Wally World this afternoon getting various foodstuffs for the weekend. I need to run to the liquor store in Carrollton tomorrow or Friday for beer and perhaps a few other sundries. I also need to get another load of mulch, but I am pretty much finished other than that.

Whilst I was wandering the aisles of the wondrous warehouse attempting to avoid large asses with cartloads of screaming curtain climbers and rug rats I came across the EASTER CANDY AISLE. Of course I had to get some Ferrero Rocher chocolates. While perusing I ran across nothing other than a chocolate cross, in white and milk chocolates of course. I never could find the chocolate Jesus to go with it. I am assuming that they sold out and that’s why there was still such a glut of Easter Bunnies there.

Maybe come the holiday season at the end of the year I can pick up a chocolate nativity scene. With all the folks that are usually in the Nativity, I could spend a week or two eating the little buggers.

I particularly enjoyed Mr Fabulous’ comment in my entry:

It would have been cool if they had a chocolate Jesus. Then all you would need is some peppermint nails…

No doubt. What I was not aware of at the time is what a damn fuss was just starting to go on about another Chocolate Jesus as reported by the Zero Boss as well as a shitload of other bloggers and news sites. Damn, I wish I had thought about this one first. I would melt down the Easter Bunny in a heartbeat to mold my own savory savior. I was back over at The Zero Boss this morning looking at the Sugar Rush and came across this site called the Chocolate Deities comments/z7shysterical.gif Oh my. A veritable godly amount of theobromine just for me.

Internet Servers and Remote Code

rmiles7721April 3, 20073Blogging, Technology

I am so tired of having slow loading times because of other people’s crappy servers that I will spend some time this afternoon copying any images that are supposed to be hosted remotely to my server and host them here, with just the link to the other site, and then remove some of the items that are holding things up at load time. Some of the code I have to keep unfortunately, but it still should help out.

I can keep several of the items such as my blogroll on a separate page and then have them load via a lightbox so that you never leave the page. That should help things out a little bit anyway.

Rosie Shows Why She’s a Surrender Monkey

rmiles7721April 3, 2007Entertainment, Politics

Just checking out some of the sites this morning and over at Blue Star Chronicles I came across this post: Rosie’s Flying a Flag and Backtracking. Apparently Rosie has a new post up at her blog backpedaling from her support for all of the 9/11 conspiracy wackos.

9/11 affected me deeply, as I know it did many Americans. The falling of the twin towers served to remind me that many of the assumptions Americans have about their lives are rooted in false feelings of security. In light of this reminder, I have begun doing exactly what this country, at its best, allows for me to do: inquire. Investigate. America is great in…

The whole post is up over at BSC and you can also check it out at Rosie O’Donnell’s (sp?) site as well. Comments are closed. I suppose whe doesn’t want any of her wacky readers calling her out for the chicken-shit she is. Now I certainly don’t have anything against stepping back from a certain view and changing your tune when you are wrong. When something is wrong it’s wrong but it this case it is obviously wrong from the start so if you are going to spout idiotic convictions you should at least stand by them. emoticons/shake.gif

Scheduled Posting with Movabletype

rmiles7721April 3, 2007Blogging, Technology

I put together several of the posts for today first thing this morning, and scheduled posting seems to work OK except for the fact that when Movabletype publishes the post it doesn’t bother re-indexing the site and so the post doesn’t appear until I have done another one or someone comments on a previous post. Very weird.

Updated – OK, I just needed to add a cron job in my cpanel to run the periodic tasks. I’ve never done that so it was sort of weird.

Prayer at Rumayla – Chapter Five…

rmiles7721April 2, 20079Entertainment

…is now up to listen to over at Charles’ site. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to the podcast you really should go check it out. Here is a little blurb on it from Charles’ site and a couple of reviews:

Nineteen year-old Chet Brown arrived home from the Gulf War in the spring of 1991 and found that, for him, the war was only beginning. Betrayed by his friends and lover, ignored by his family, Brown travels across the country in search of meaning behind the horrors of his war.

“Bleak and disturbing… dead-on-target …This first novel is a work of pure psychological conflict.” – Pulitzer Prize winning reporter John Hanchette, Reno Gazette-Journal

“Brutally honest, direct, and meaningful, Prayer At Rumayla is a compelling novel of coming to terms not only with dangers and traumas of the battlefront, but with its aftermath upon the lives of the surviving combatants.” – Midwest Book Review

Luckily I have a copy (a couple actually) but it has been at least a couple of years since I read it, so listening to the podcast itself is like reading it again.


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The deed is done

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Men of Science…

rmiles7721April 2, 2007Site News

…er, women that is. I don’t know where the heck she found it, but Dr. Doches has found the funniest damn picture of Al Gore that I have seen in awhile but you have to read the post first.

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