Post Weirdness

rmiles7721April 25, 2007Blogging, Technology

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but each of my posts going down the main page is progressively smaller and smaller. I am using tables, but I have my MTEntries stuff INSIDE each table, so it shouldn’t be duplicating those. I may end of switching back to a purely CSS driven page after all. I am just not that good at coding it. It worked fine on my test site, but here it is starting to look extremely weird.

I guess I need to break out that CSS book and take a look at it or something. I have a couple of computers to look at today and some posting to do, as well as the fact that I want to go outside (imagine!) and work in the garden but maybe this evening I can fix it up. It only took me a couple of hours of fiddling to actually get the comment posting fixed, so maybe it won’t take too long to get this right as well.

Hotels

rmiles7721April 24, 2007Travel

Since I am back at work from my last vacation of course all I can think about is the next one 🙂

One thing we have looked at is something that a good friend of mine did a few months ago. Her boyfriend works in Mexico, so he flew her and her kids down there and they all stayed in on of those Condo Hotels. They are actually pretty reasonable when you consider what you get. If you have the kind of money to spend it’s much better than a timeshare and are usually managed well when you aren’t staying in your suite.

I could see living in a few different condo hotels year round and just traveling to where ever the weather happened to be nicest at that time of year. Caribbean or Baja in the Winter, New York or Canada in the summer. The freedom would certainly be nice.

Mid-West Vacations

rmiles7721April 24, 2007Travel

Most of the time I spend thinking and planning vacations in exotic places but once the kids are a bit older I would like to explore so other areas of the country as well. I have only been through the mid-west a few times, and that was usually on the way to the west coast, but there are some really beautiful places there. Branson Missouri is supposed to be the “Live Music Capital of the World” and that in itself is enough to get me thinking about going to check it out. The Ozarks are supposed to be really nice, and it would be kind of nice to spend some time during the summer in the mountains rather than sweltering at the beach someplace.

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.