July 2007

Could Be Worse I Suppose

rmiles7721July 18, 2007Blogging

Yesterday sucked much more than I thought it would. 90% of it was my attitude I am sure but it ended up being just one of those fucking days. My cook never showed up and it was pretty busy so I was pretty much chained to one store yesterday. It did have the side benefit of making sure that I saved a bit of money yesterday which is a good thing, but I damn sure wasn’t happy about it. I ended up not getting out of there until Five O’ Clock or somewhere around there.

I was staffed the rest of the day but I spent several hours trying to find help for my other two stores as they were both hung on the evening shift. One of them got covered and was able to go home, but the other manager ended up having to work a double. Considering how much out of line he is with expenditures he needed to work a double anyway.

Now that I am starting to wake up I can’t really remember any of the reasons as to why I had such a bad day. Sometimes life is just funny like that I suppose. It sure did seem like everything was crappy yesterday, but now none of it seems particularly important.

As I said in the last post I am in the process of upgrading to Movabletype 4 Beta 7. If this thing gets posted prior to 6AM then I suppose the upgrade went fine. I was looking through the change log and it looks like they got one of my problems fixed.

54585: Pages can not be published dynamically
FIXED: Page could not be correctly published dynamically (some conditional tags may worked wrongly). The bug has been fixed.

That’s a good deal and it’s one of the issues that I was having. Hopefully some of the other little nagging bugs have been fixed as well.

I am pretty much all over the place this morning, but don’t really have anything of import to post, just rambling. Some days I am just not in the mood to post and it seems as though I have to force myself to sit down and write. Today is one of those. Of course I may end up posting even more tonight when all is said and done.

Last night I posted about the hits that I am getting for people looking for Deathly Hallows Spoilers. Apparently I am currently #12 for the google search “Deathly Hallows Spoilers“. Not that it matters a whole heck of a lot but the extra traffic is nice because some of those folks hang around to see what the site is about and then come back again. The rest of them go to Harvey’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Spoiler page or they click on one of the Google ads

Received an email yesterday that I just now read. It’s from Odiogo and apparently somebody saw my post about integrating Odiogo into Movabletype and have some code up for it now. I’ve looked through it and don’t know how well it will work with MT 4 but I will try and implement it this afternoon if I get home at a decent time.

Hopefully this upgrade will finish uploading in the next few minutes. I have been typing this as my FTP client uploads because I have to CHMOD a few files as soon as it finishes, before I can start getting ready for work, otherwise the site will be broken until I get home. Can’t have that can we 🙂

I use an offline editor to write up most of my blog entries, thus the fact that I can write this while it’s running. I have tried the online one, and it’s great for adding stuff like google ads or other bits of code that would get changed around a bit inside my editor, but for the most part I dislike the online editor in MT or with Blogger for that matter. I much prefer a text editor that will connect and upload when I am ready for it. It makes it much easier for me to write several posts and then publish them when I want. I don’t guess it makes much difference either way but this is what I am most comfortable with.

It’s all done now and so far everything seems to be working OK. Have to get ready for work…


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So That’s Where They Are Coming From

rmiles7721July 17, 2007Technology

I was wondering where all these extra google hits were coming from. Apparently everyone is looking for Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Spoilers which of course I posted something about back in May. It’s actually just a short post and a link to Harvey’s site. Hopefully he’s getting a few hits off of it as well.


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Harrel Braddy Finally Convicted

rmiles7721July 17, 2007Site News

Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst

rmiles7721July 17, 2007Site News

Blogs for Borders has a new video blogburst up. If you are interested in protecting our borders or illegal immigration go check it out here.

Another Day, Another…

rmiles7721July 17, 2007Site News

Whatever. I stayed up too late last night and damn sure didn’t want to gt up this morning. I’ve been up sipping coffee and surfing the net for about half an hour now and need to start getting ready for work soon. I’ve got a manager off each of the next six days so this will be another long week. One of them goes on vacation the 25th so things should be pretty interesting at his store. It’s the slowest one that I have but also the one that I have had the most problems with so maybe I can get some of them fixed while he is out of town. I’m certainly hoping so. Either that or I will just end up in a big old dog and pony show and fire a bunch of people. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

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It’s only about 40 minutes until Tuesday and I am getting ready to hit the proverbial sack. No dammit!, the bed.

This one is pretty cool. A nice change form butterflies and tribal tattoos. I think the worse one I ever heard of was when an acquaintance told me about a girl she knew. This girl had her name tattooed on her back. I guess that way guys would know who she was as they were hitting it or something.

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Thanks to Fast Boy over at Flickr for this one. More of Fast Boys photos can be found there as well. Obviously I am out of stuff of my own, now I am going to have to start hunting again, or you can email me your tramp stamp photos (if you dare) and I will feature them here.

And Now For Something Really Annoying

rmiles7721July 16, 2007Site News

Thanks to Kat I found something really truly disturbing. Evil. Worse than Jehovah’s Witnesses coming to my door. There is a timer on the site. As soon as I copy the link location I am closing the bitch. How long can you stay without playing Van Gogh on yourself? I stayed for Two minutes, thirty eight seconds. Damn, now I will never get to sleep.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix…

rmiles7721July 16, 200713Entertainment

We don’t go see a lot of movies at the theater anymore but we did decided to have a day out of the house (it’s my off day) and take the girls to the movies and of course Harry Potter was on the agenda.

We took the girls out to eat first. Even though I know the mall is too damned expensive I was craving a Gyro, so that’s where we ate. These things seriously fill me up fast. I ate two of them once and could barely move. Had the munchies though, so it was needed but that’s a story for another time.

The movie was pretty good. I won’t post a spoiler or anything but we all enjoyed it. This was probably the darkest feeling one they have put out so far, and of course at that time the book was as well. I can’t decide if it was a good thing or not, but since the book was 600+ pages they had to cut out quite a bit of back-story which everyone already knows, as well as some of the filler stuff. Dobby was gone, as was Harry’s growing relationship with Cho, and some other stuff during the final fight “scene” with Dumbledore and Voldemort. Anyway, it was pretty good and both of the girls enjoyed the day, more so because when we left the theater we took them to the build-a-bear and let them build teddy bears.

Fucking solid gold teddy bears they may as well have been. $73 on two teddy bears. I hope they have actual shit and talk action for that price. Actually it’s not the bears that are that expensive, but once you buy outfits for each and one accessory, that’s about what it ran me. I wouldn’t let them get anything else because I am a horrible parent, or at least that’s what I told them. They have enough crap around the house without adding more clutter. The money doesn’t bother me too much. Things are looking up and the girls really had a good time, but I have to make sure to set enough aside to buy school clothes and supplies next week. Only a couple weeks left until school starts.

Originally Pete had the idea to get a U.S. Marine outfit for her bear and then give it to the boy, but you could tell that she really didn’t want to, so we told her to get what she wanted. It ended up being a cheerleader bunny and RePete got a pink bear with all pink clothes. She’s all girl. Here they are all hanging out in their coolness. I tried to get RePete to make it a biker bear but she wanted no part of that.

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The camera seems to have dried out a bit. I think the big problem I was having in Hilton Head was that we were getting in and our of the air conditioned car into the heat and humidity, so it fogged up the camera. Oh well.

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Well, I hunted down the book. I need to go ahead and reread it and the Half-Blood prince before the new one comes next weekend. I do have a bit of leeway as the wife gets first crack at it and I recently ordered a new Alan Dean Foster book as well that I will probably read first. I finally gave up on the newest Tolkien book. It sucks.


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EVDO Is Here…

rmiles7721July 16, 2007Technology

Just recently Verizon has started rolling out EVDO in my area. I am ecstatic. I like being able to access the internet over bluetooth when there is no other reliable connection around such as in my backyard or when Charter is down, and this is much faster.

I have also taken to watching the evening news when I am outside smoking as well. I don’t watch much TV, and damn sure not the news but this is different. I used to hate the little hand held TVs as well, and even though I love gadgets I would never pay money for something like that, but watching it on my teeny tiny screen just seems so appropriate for me. I don’t know what it is, but hey keeping up on current events on some medium besides the Internet is probably a good thing.

Monitors

rmiles7721July 16, 2007Technology

I am going to start piecing together a couple of computers over the next few months. One is going to be the new media PC for the living room and another for the bedroom, but if there is any extra left over I want to upgrade my computer. I am really interested in getting a new Viewsonic monitor, or maybe even a couple since my Nvidia card has dual head output. My old boss had a really nice and huge Viewsonic flat-screen that I want to get. Oh well, mine will be the last to get upgraded. I will probably look into getting the wife a laptop before I consider getting myself anything new. Maybe by Christmas since things seem to be going so well at work.