At least there are still a few of them around. The article sounds almost sympathetic to Donna Duffer though.
Gabmbling disorders just like alcoholism and drug addiction can be a terrible thing but ultimately we are responsible for our behavior. The only true victims were her family, co-workers and employer.
Roman Greenberg is the International Boxing Organization’s current intercontinental heavyweight champion. He’s won all of his professional fights, if I remember correctly it’s 25 of them, with 17 being knock-outs. On August 18th 2007 he will be facing veteran boxer Damon Reed at the South Town Exhibition Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Damon Reed is 10 years older than Roman Greenberg and will most likely be the toughest match for him in his career so far. The Greenberg versus Reed match is the headlining event along with three additional big name matches with other professionals such as David Tua, Joe Mesi and Jeremy Williams.
The scuttlebutt is that Roman Greenberg is also on a list of possible opponents to face Vitali Klitschko in a come back fight in September. The last time that Klitschko fought was in September 2004 when he fought Danny Williams.
One of Roman Greenberg’s biggest sponsors is Backgammon Masters online. They have been sponsoring him since early in his career when the decision was made that Greenberg, although unknown at the time, had great potential and was going to move quickly in his career.
Backgammon Masters is the premier online web resource for backgammon rules and information. With an extensive library of information on backgammon, how to play, links to articles and books, strategies and a thorough glossary, anyone interested in learning or getting better at the game should go check out the site but don’t forget to tune in to payperview for the Roman Greenberg v. Damon Reed heavyweight fight on August 18th.
I got home some time between three and four this afternoon. I was completely exhausted. I don’t have air in the car so after having ridden in it for half an hour and going to Wal-Mart I was sweating like a pig and probably stinking like one as well. I took a shower and then lay down with the youngest girl for a couple of minutes. I had not planned on napping as I have several hours of work today both for my real job and online, but I woke up at six. No damn caffeine so I am still in a fog. I don’t do very well without it to wake up with. I tend to bite people’s heads off.
I am getting ready to go back to work but have been waiting on this upgrade for MT to finish before that. I have to chmod some stuff but can’t do it until my FTP client finishes uploading.
In the meantime I’m working on my Itinerary for the next three months. I should have had this done 14 days ago but have pretty much just been playing it by ear.
I have been running the upgrade to Movabletype 4.0 rc2b while typing this, hopefully all will be well. I haven’t heard or seen any major bugs with it anyway. I did submit a bug report on the cron job that runs scheduled posts about a week ago and I see where messages are being suppressed from it but I don’t see where they actually fixed the problem.
Anyone else running MT4.0 that is able to get scheduled posts to work? Perhaps they did fix it. I generally have a post scheduled for Monday and Tuesday nights so I will see then I suppose.
As with any of the other beta or release candidate versions, just let me know if it does anything weird or you have any problems.
I don’t have much of anything intelligent to post this morning (that’s a change, huh?). I spent most of the morning surfing sites I haven’t been to before and answering some emails and am still just sort of dragging around, so this is my generic weekend open track-back post.
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Sometimes it’s difficult not to just hit people or cuss them out. I spent fifteen minutes on the phone late last night on my way home from work with someone who wanted to argue semantics with me about something we have to do before they actually got to the point of what was really important. By the time he finally got to the point he had wasted the time of five different people including myself and probably pissed them off just as bad as he did me. Stupid fucker…
I just finished installing Windowblinds 6.0 Beta, here is a screenshot of my current desktop. Nothing major going on right now. Windows Sidebar, 5imple Alpha Windowblinds, animated background.
It’s about time for me to start shopping for the holidays in the next couple of weeks. In addition to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years both of my girls have birthdays as do I. Immediately after Christmas my son and wife have birthdays. Thus the fact that I am in the poor house five months of the year and only a pauper the other seven. I’m going to do the same thing I did last year and use Coupon Chief for most of these purchases, at least the ones online. I have posted about Coupon Chief before and how useful they are. They have up to date coupons and great deals along with excellent customer support. Want some examples of the coupons I found today?
You’re getting them anyway.
Normally when I go over there it’s looking for computer supplies and deals but I am probably not going to be getting any type of PC equipment for people this year so I went looking at some of the ‘normal’ stuff.
Target has some pretty good deals at Coupon Chief right now such as $5 off any purchase $50 or more, free shipping when you have more than $25 in shoes and free shipping on orders over $50 in Womens. Not too bad. I hate getting clothes for Christmas or birthdays myself. I consider myself a better judge of what I want to wear than you are for some reason, but clothes are a great gift for my girls. They love them. Thus the fact that I will end up doing some of my shopping at Target. Now if you want to spend a couple hundred bucks and buy me a new leather jacket I might reconsider my opinion of you giving me clothes but that’s about it.
Another store, and one that will be good for the wife is the Home Depot. Believe it or not, I want to get the wife and myself some new tools and a new chainsaw. Some tile for the bathroom would be cool too. Coupon Chief has several good deals for Home Depot such as a $250 Home Depot gift card with the purchase of select appliances, free delivery and haul away on appliances $299 and more, and there is an online clearance event going on right now with deals from 20%-50% off.
You get the gist of it. Use Coupon Chief when you are shopping online = save money. Don’t use coupon chief = flush it down the toilet why dontcha!
Normally I don’t get too involved in the daily lives of my employees but I have known some of these girls for literally most of their lives and one of them asked me for advice on her baby shower decorations. Her mother worked for me for several years and she came to work for me back in October of last year so even though I apply the rule to stay out of their personal business that just means to me that I won’t attend but it doesn’t stop me from helping them out if I have the chance. Having had three children of my own and going through this already gives me a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn’t so I suggested something along the lines of a Winnie the Pooh baby shower.
Parents and kids alike love Pooh. It doesn’t matter how old they are. It just brings back happy childhood memories for most of us. When we took the kids to Disney in 2005 one of the prized possessions that the youngest girl brought back was a stuffed Pooh Bear that I got for her.
Anyway, whether I am attending the shower or not is pretty much a moot point because planning is what I am good at, which is why she asked me for help with her baby shower and help picking out decorations for it.
I did give her one other suggestion for her baby shower theme just in case she didn’t like Pooh and that was to have a Precious Moments shower theme like the one at Party Pail. They are both fairly inexpensive and include Thank You Cards, a centerpiece, plates, napkins, tableware, a tablecloth, balloons and streamers to decorate the room with.
Now obviously I can’t have children but having three of them I know that being pregnant is no picnic so why not have a little fun with the baby shower in the meantime? Not to mention the fact that I just enjoy a good party, even one centered around children. That’s one of the reasons we normally have our children’s birthday parties at the house rather than someplace else. The other one is because I am just cheap like that.
I haven’t been whining as much about work lately as I used to for some really simple reasons. My Area People Director (the head HR honcho in my area) is online and found me via LinkedIn. If he found me there I know he can find me on MySpace, where he does have an account, and that will eventually lead here. I don’t particularly care if they see what I am posting and am not particularly afraid of losing my job over it, particularly since I don’t use company names and generally don’t use anyone from work’s name other than calling them whiny assholes on occasion.
Oh, gotta stop that…
Anyway, I am more worried that they will see that I am making money on the side basically as a second job than them seeing I write about work on occasion. They are very controlling like that. As management we aren’t “allowed” to work second jobs. Period.
So I will probably keep bitching but I am going to try and start using more generic terms so as to keep myself out of hot water…