July 2007

The Police

rmiles7721July 3, 2007Entertainment

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A while back I posted a bit about the Police, their new album, and the subsequent concert. The new album is a two CD compilation of their most renowned songs. The Police were the quintessential 80’s band, and these songs show why. Here is the track listing:

Disc 01
01 Fall Out
02 Can’t Stand Losing You
03 Next To You
04 Roxanne
05 Truth Hits Everybody
06 Hole In My Life
07 So Lonely
08 Message In A Bottle
09 Reggatta de Blanc
10 Bring On The Night
11 Walking On The Moon
12 The Bed’s Too Big Without You
13 Don’t Stand So Close To Me
14 Driven To Tears
15 Canary In A Coalmine

Disc 02
01 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
02 Voices Inside My Head
03 Invisible Sun
04 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
05 Spirits In The Material World
06 Demolition Man
07 Rehumanize Yourself
08 Every Breath You Take
09 Synchronicity I
10 Wrapped Around Your Finger
11 Walking In Your Footsteps
12 Synchronicity II
13 King Of Pain
14 Murder By Numbers
15 Tea In The Sahara

I’m not a huge die hard fan, everyone knows I am into metal and classic rock as well as the blues, but I do enjoy their music. Enough to purchase The Police CD and see them on tour anyway, which is a pretty good bit I suppose.

They even have a widget at their website that you can install on your page that shows their upcoming and current tour dates.

Here is a spot that has been running on TV in the UK recently.

Anyway, the CD has been out for about a month now, and along with the two CDs includes a vintage Police poster as well. One of the things for me not being a humongous fan is that I don’t constantly listen to them anymore, and I was extremely pleased to listen to the album as I forgot just how catchy and enjoyable their music is.


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Dragging…

rmiles7721July 3, 2007Site News

…ass is about all I am doing this morning. I fell asleep watching Eddie Izzard last night somewhere around ten and then didn’t wake up until almost five this morning. I guess it’s this week is starting to wear on me. It’s not like it’s my eighth day at work or something. Oh wait, it is my eighth day at work. No damn wonder I am dragging.

One of my managers is off today so this will be the only day this week where I may not get out early. For some reason the city of Villa Rica is having their fireworks display tonight rather than tomorrow, which is all screwed up. Still not sure why they are doing that. Tomorrow is the Fourth, that’s when they should have them.

As dry as it is I didn’t even bother to buy any fireworks this year. I’m too afraid I would set my yard on fire. That would not be a good thing for anyone concerned.

Tomorrow is also my last day prior to starting vacation as well. It’s only been three months since my last one, maybe a bit longer, but I feel like it’s been about twelve months already. I will definitely enjoy it even if I have to be somewhat cheap on this one.

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That was weird. My Internet connection went down for about three minutes or so. I was getting ready to get all pissed off at Charter again. I haven’t had any problems in the last 24 hours or more since that little rainstorm knocked out my connection on Sunday night but with Charter you never can tell. Shit, if I could afford it I would pick up DSL and keep cable just to have a backup connection. That’s just one of those unnecessary luxuries that I am not willing to pay for though.

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There goes the wife’s alarm on her cell phone. I managed to make it into the kitchen where it is this morning, without getting injured. Didn’t want a repeat of yesterday. My toe is fine, but damned if my knee still isn’t hurting where I ripped off several layers of skin on the carpet. Dumb-ass.

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I am having a hard time paying attention this morning. My mind keeps wandering. I think the wife found us a babysitter for Thursday night, so I know I am looking forward to going out for awhile. I’ve heard from a couple of people we may be meeting up with but I know this time of year is pretty busy for quite a few people.

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Everyone send out their best wishes for RSM, who is going to be offline for awhile in basic training. As he says, it’s not goodbye but merely a hiatus and a bit of change…Good luck buddy, although luck isn’t something you will need there, just the determination that you already carry with you.

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That’s about it for this morning. I have to get off my ass and start getting ready for work now matter how much I am hating it at 5:58 this morning…

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

rmiles7721July 3, 2007Site News

Here I was sitting and drinking my coffee. I almost forgot what day it is…

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Earthfrisk

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Technology

Earthfrisk is one of those Social Bookmarking sites that are around on the net, but this one also combines media with it. I just ran across it today and so far it looks pretty cool.

User post different links and other media and you pick the ones you are interested. It’s a good way to check out new content that you may not have seen before. Some of the best content on the Internet can be found here. You can post links to blog entries, articles, and videos as well. There are already a ton of links there to check out and joining is easy. You can also post your own pictures as well.

What’s cool is that it’s not only links but an active community where you can join in on the discussion on various subjects and categories as well as vote on them. If you want other users to vote on your articles they can be posted as well.

What it comes down to is that EarthFrisk is not controlled or guided by the admins but by the users themselves. Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to find interesting topics and links, so go check it out.

Entries

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Technology

Since I post a bit often I have cut back down the number of entries to four days worth on the main page again. The page itself seems to be loading a bit faster now that I have changed everything over. Still not using FastCGI though. After that last attempt I am very wary of changing anything like that. Maybe I will mess with it a bit next week.

I am also running the beta 4 version of Movabletype 4 now, oh by the way. I really like what they are doing with Movabletype although a lot of the newer features are stuff that I just will never use, or at least it seems so right now.


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Finalizing Vacation Plans

rmiles7721July 2, 20071Parenting/Family

We finally figured out exactly what it is we are doing this week. Thursday evening we will be meeting some fellow bloggers at some Indian restaurant next to a big hotel in Atlanta, as Eric explained it. Boy, that fucking helps don’t it? Anyway, if I forget to email you give me a call or shoot me an email.

Friday morning the wife has to run to the doctor and then we will probably make the drive down to Bluffton and stay the weekend. We will probably be down there until Monday or Tuesday morning and hit Savannah at some point over the weekend. I would stay longer but since I have to be back at work on Thursday morning I want at least one day at home to get stuff taken care of.

The wife and Pete just went to the store to get the makings for a Greek salad. That will be a nice cool supper. Salad and bread. I am sure that I will be craving beef by the time tomorrow morning rolls around.

Just two more days until vacation. I have a manager off tomorrow but my relief manager will be with me as well as a manager trainee. I am going to try and take it as easy as possible before I am finished on Wednesday. I do have to check on the fireworks. Someone told me that they are doing them locally tomorrow evening. That may very well be a problem as I really don’t have the help I need in my stores on a Tuesday night for that sort of rush. I may end up working fairly late on Tuesday night.

Places to Go…

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Travel

With the impending vacation it’s only appropriate that I come across this post sponsored by DialAFlight. DialAFlight has some pretty nice destinations at a reasonable price. As hot as it is I have been wanting to go someplace that is not quite as hot as it is here.

It’s pretty easy to book a flight and a great hotel and get away on one of their great New York weekend breaks. I’ve been to New York once but it has been quite some time. From what everyone I talk to says New York has cleaned up immensely and is once again becoming a very attractive vacation spot to visit.

This is a shot of Times Square. Man, it has changed a lot since I was there back in the eighties. At that point in time it was pretty nasty.

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DialAFlight also has flights to Canada, which at this time of year is extremely beautiful. Much nicer than the 90 degree weather that I have been having. Talk about the dog days of summer. What we normally have as August temperatures moved in here last month and have yet to leave.

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Above is an unknown lake (to me) and below is horseshoe falls, which is the biggest part of Niagara falls.

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Although I said I want to go someplace cooler I will probably end up going to Hilton Head and be hot AND go to the beach. There area a couple of places I would like to eventually visit that are slightly warm right now and one is Johannesburg South Africa. Not quite among the coolest places around but I certainly wouldn’t give up a chance to go, no matter what time of year it is. Believe it or not there are fairly decent flights to Johannesburg. Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 40 largest cities in the world.

Karpet Killers

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Parenting/Family

It’s nice to have the girls home. I slept much better last night with them here and the wife in bed. I enjoyed the quiet time, but it is much better to have them home. Have to start getting ready for work in a minute but I injured myself this morning and had to whine about it for a minute.

Dinner last night was really nice. We were all stuffed afterward, except for my smallest girls. RePete is just one of those extremely picky eaters and doesn’t eat 90% of what we fix so she ends up going hungry quite often until she gets tired of it and finally eats whatever we have made. Catering to them is not something that we particularly go out of our way to do. If they want to eat fruit or make a sandwich they are more than welcome to but that’s pretty much it.

The wife does the same thing that I do in the mornings and has her cell phone set up with an alarm for the time that she normally gets up. The only thing is that she is on vacation but hasn’t disabled it. The alarm went off a couple of minutes ago so I jumped up from my computer desk and went to run in there and grab it before it woke her up.

Most of their luggage is still sitting there on the living room floor, and I missed seeing a bag and tripped over it, catching my big toenail and snapping it bending it back. I landed on my hands and knees tearing off several layers of skin form my left knee. My big toe is hurting and now I have this nasty fucking carpet burn on my left knee that is oozing blood. Just what I wanted to go to work with. Heck, if I were one of my employees that would be enough to call in to work about, the assholes.

I have to go shower and I am sure that my knee is going to feel wonderful once soap and water hit it.

Screwy Div Tags

rmiles7721July 2, 20071Technology

I will have to be careful and watch anything else I put in with Bloggerwave or any other one that inserts code. Part of the disclosure is a <div> tag that just completely screwed up my site. It’s gone now but took me a minute to find.

U.S. Adds Air Marshals On Overseas Flights.

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Site News

We have apparently added more air marshals on overseas flights, particularly those between Britain and here.

This is something that I am certainly not opposed to, and we probably should have already done that. In the wake of the supposed London terrorists and their Rube Goldberg car bombs that wouldn’t have done anything anyway it looks kind of stupid if you ask me.