I’ve been looking for my shades all week, with all of the driving I do now I need them. Just found the sonsabitches in my car.
In between stores, may post more later.
Another Too Short Night…
I don’t know how I do it sometimes. I had to handle shift change at one of the restaurants last night (I never did get that nap yesterday) so I got home around ten or so. I ended up going to bed after eleven last night but still managed to get up by a quarter to five. I’ve got a manager starting her ten day vacation today and another one that is off for the next two days, so it’s bound to be quite a long day.
Only a couple more weeks until I get a vacation and I am looking forward to it. I start on July 5th and that will be cool in itself because all of my managers will be in that day with it being a holiday so I might actually get to watch fireworks this year.
Anyway, the idea of some kind of Atlanta meet was being bandied around late this month or early next, which would be really cool. I know that Sandy will be in town during that time, actually I think she is probably in the air now, so perhaps something along the lines of a get-together is in order.
Web Hosting
I have mentioned a couple of times recently that I am starting to look for a new web host for several different reasons, the first being bandwidth and CPU usage. I still don’t know if I am going to switch or not but I have found a couple of different providers that I am looking into one of which is Host Arcadia, who is also sponsoring this review.
Host Arcadia has a couple of really good plans that I am looking at. One of the things that really interests me is that their biggest plan, Zion, has 2.5 times the bandwidth that I currently get from my provider for less than half the price. The also let you pay a yearly rate. At $130 a year for the biggest plan, that’s what I pay for five months at my current provider.
The starter plan that they offer which is good for most folks is only $3 a month but you have to pay for that one a year at a time, so it’s $36. Not bad at all. In addition to the extra space and bandwidth you get from their hosting plans, Host Arcadia also throws in webmail, unlimited email accounts, unlimited MySQL databases,cpanel, and Fantastico.
They also have a pretty nice affiliate program that I am going to be looking into as well. If you are interested in web hosting or reselling you can get in touch with them at 1-845-784-1614. They are running a pretty nice Grand Opening Reseller Promotion as well at $9.95 a month for 3GB space, 80GB bandwidth, cpanel and Fantastico along with unlimited hosted domains.
I also like the fact that their servers are hosted in Atlanta. Being a southern boy myself I prefer to use things that are “local” although that pretty much doesn’t matter now except for the fact that my current provider is either somewhere out west or in the northeast and occasionally I have DNS issues with them.
Time for a Little Nappy Nap…
Still haven’t heard from the Boy yet but the Wife spoke with his recruiter today, who told her that sometimes it is a pretty large group and they just run out of time to call parents at the beginning but that he should have time to call later this week. I don’t even know what company he’s in to get some idea about graduation yet. As soon as I get his mailing address we will be able to write as well. I know the girls miss him terribly, as do I. He is there though, that much we got out of the recruiter but that was about it. Hopefully all is well with him. Thanks to those that have called or sent their best wishes for his success.
That going to bed at three crap coupled with getting back up at five has kicked my ass. I have to be back at work tonight at eightish so unless I just get a bunch of high paying stuff to do it’s NAP TIME!
Tramp Stamp Tuesday
Burn Notice!
Aquamarine Jewelry
This post is Sponsored by My Solitaire.
I don’t do a whole lot of jewelry and my wife doesn’t wear a whole lot more. I do know what I like though. Silver, Gold, Aquamarine, and Garnets. I used to wear my father’s Marine Corp Rifle Sharpshooter badge on a silver chain for years and years, but it disappeared quite some time ago. I also have a couple of silver Mickey Mouse earrings and a gold Mickey watch that plays the theme to the Mickey Mouse Club that I wear but that is pretty much it. I have a couple of Aquamarine Rings that I wear on occasion as well as some others that I don’t wear as often though.
The wife just doesn’t wear much jewelry at all unless we are going out for a special occasion. She has her wedding band (mine doesn’t fit my fat little fingers any more) as well as her engagement ring, and maybe earrings, but that is about it. My Solitaire does have some pretty cool Aquamarine Earrings that I was looking at though. I don’t know if I could get her to wear them or not. She would look great in Aquamarine Jewelry but that’s more a matter of taste than anything else.
These Aquamarine Earrings are pretty cool. The run about $365 so are definitely something for a special occasion.
I really like these Aquamarine Pendants that I found. This one in particular has a Peridot, Mandarin Garnet, Aquamarine, Tanzanite, & Pink Tourmaline set in 14K gold and runs around $220. Much more in line with my budget and the way the stones all look together is just very cool.
I’m certainly no expert at picking out or buying jewelry, but you could do a lot worse. That’s why I always go to the experts that know what they are talking about when I am buying jewelry.
3:00PM…
I don’t remember the last time I was at home this early on a weekday when one of my managers was off. Actually I do, it was before I took the promotion. I’m tired as hell and my back hurts to the point where I am getting ready to have a muscle relaxer and a beer, but it’s a been a damn good day.
Online Backups
This post is sponsored by IDrive-E. IDrive-E is a supplier of online backup services. I have been getting interested in online backup suppliers over the last couple of months and have reviewed a couple of them as well. IDrive is one of the leading suppliers and offers free backup space up to 2GB without any kind of bandwidth or file restrictions. This could be pictures, documents, or even music. They also offer the option to upgrade to the paid plan, IDrive-E Pro as well. The pro plan is only $4.95 a month or $49.50 a year and offers unlimited storage space.
I went ahead and signed up for the free plan for the time being so that I could check it out. Sign-up is easy, Name, user name, password, email address, and a captcha gets you started at which point you download the application, which is about 7 megs. The install ran pretty much flawlessly under Windows Vista. During the install you pick an encryption password with which your files will be encrypted, so don’t forget it as you won’t be able to recover your files without it.
After you have picked the password it will prompt you to restart your computer. It’s not required to use the IDrive-E interface but if you want to use mapped drives and Windows Explorer it is. Using the IDrive interface is fairly easy. You just pick the files that you want to backup, and either schedule a backup, or tell it to backup right now. I went ahead and did a manual backup and decided to store some pictures. I am sure that I have more than two gigs of photos on this computer but will store as many as I can. Here’s a shot of the main interface.
Once I picked Backup Now it scans the files…
…and then starts the Online Backup. Apparently I did have less than two gigs. I had forgotten that I have not put all of my pictures back on here since I rebuilt my PC earlier in the year…
Overall it is a pretty cool service and a nifty companion app. I am considering signing up for the pro service. I am interested in seeing how well I can access my media files online as I may install this on my media center. I have close to 800Gb of videos and movies and it would be nice to be able to free up some of that space here. If it’s fast enough I may just use them via a mapped drive.
Photo Hunt Saturday #62
The theme for this week’s Photo Hunt Saturday is Hair, which as you can see from my HNT post and the photo on the sidebar I have very little of right now, so here are some older pics
Believe it or not, that’s me with all the hair in the upper right hand corner, and the toddler is my son who is leaving for Marine Corp boot camp tomorrow. Damn time flies when you are having fun. I still don’t know how well comments are working but even if you get an error they should show up. I will get it fixed eventually.
One more of me with real hair.
