April 2007

Catholics

rmiles7721April 24, 2007Site News

My wife and my son are Catholic although they are not practicing. Actually my son, although he was christened, has never been a practicing Catholic and doesn’t believe in any kind of higher power. Her family is also Catholic, and most of the older members are very devout. One of the things that I never understood about the Catholic religion was the heavy use of rosaries and what they meant.

I do have a very good friend who went to seminary school who finally explained some of it to me, and he used to talk a lot about the mysticism involved in religious objects, and their use. Even though it’s just not my thing I have always found it extremely interesting and I like to hear and read about it.

Business Cards

rmiles7721April 24, 2007Site News

I had almost forgotten about this. Once I take that district promotion in a couple of weeks I need to go get some business cards printed up. Since I will have three stores it’s not a simple matter of telling people thy can get in touch with me at my store, I need to be able to give them my email address and cell phone number. There are other ways to get the info to them, particularly if they use an electronic gadget, but not everyone does, and one of the simplest oldest ways is to make sure that I carry a few cards around with me just in case, particularly since a big portion of my job is going to also be recruiting new managers.

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The drama queen

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The drama queen

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Oh so very true

Another Vacation Idea

rmiles7721April 24, 2007Travel

Two of the people that went to the blogmeet in Helen have their own yacht and ever since I talked to them about their trip to Belize last year I have been really interested in taking at least one vacation and just sailing somewhere in the Caribbean. I would be really cool to just ship the kids off to relatives one summer and take one of those yacht charters with the wife for a couple of weeks. Possibly in the next couple of years, but it probably won’t happen this year.

My HTPC Setup

rmiles7721April 23, 2007Technology

Even though I am very much into gadgets and home theater, our setup is very “retro”. My cabinet is this huge hulking behemoth of wood with doors on the top with the TV and a few IR inputs behind it, and doors on the bottom that hide my HTPC when it is hooked up, my receiver, DVD player, VCR, wireless router, and a few others. I really like the setup.

Along with the theater cabinet all of the furniture is heavy wood, big wooden tables, and lamps to match. The only thing that I really want in here that would complete the setup is a grandfather clock. Clocks are just one of those things that no matter how much technology changes and gets better (and in some cases worse) they pretty much stay the same. They do their job. Might as well have something attractive as well as functional.

Lists…

rmiles7721April 23, 2007Travel

Well, I was going to try and see if I could afford getting plane tickets for the wife to go to Kerrville TX next month, but at this point it doesn’t look like she is going to make it. That kind of sucks, but it’s just one of those things.

We have been making lists of some things that we need to get before we go on our next vacation though, and as much as I hate spending money we need to get a new set of luggage. I have always pretty much been fine with just using my old canvas carry on, but for any kind of traveling where we have to pack heavy, that just doesn’t work well.

I need a Do-Over…

rmiles7721April 23, 2007Site News

…for the day if not the entire week. This whole week has just been completely FUBAR and I feel like ranting and cursing so for those with delicate ears, don’t bother reading the extended entry.

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Day Off

rmiles7721April 22, 20073Blogging, Parenting/Family

This has probably been the least amount I have posted in months. I worked for awhile on my template, moving the sidebar to the right hand side of the page, which was more of a pain in the ass than it would seem.

I’ve found that using the divs in CSS is screwy in some browsers. Most of the templates that I have used throw the sidebar to the bottom of the page in IE 6, or if the person is using a low screen resolution although the work fin in Firefox and IE 7. I set the new page up using hard-coded tables so that they would display the way I want them to. I’m not very good with tables so it took awhile.

I’ve also tweaked a bunch of the javascript that I use on the site thanks to the help of Eric. I have the comments pop-up working correctly, as well as a live preview of each comment and when you post the comment it throws you back to the listing. If you commented here when I was using the popups you know that once you hit “Post” it would take you to the individual entry page in a little 500×400 window which looked really stupid.

Anyway, I decided to just take the day off from blogging. I haven’t even read or answered any comments. I may get the chance tomorrow afternoon, otherwise I am off Tuesday and Wednesday and will get around to everyone’s comments and links then.

Pete hasn’t been feeling very well today, so we just had kind of a low key evening with the kids as well.

Couldn’t let the day go by without at least posting once, nothing major, just wanted to say hello before I went to bed.

Hello.