tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37330862011-04-21T16:26:53.240-05:00A few short thoughts and goings on of a Vincent trying to live the good life, love his husband, and take care of his dog.Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.comBlogger1611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1143531450650477522006-03-28T01:26:00.000-06:002006-03-28T01:37:30.663-06:00

It's odd for me to realize that my tastes have changed, but I didn't realize it.There are two examples that I can think of on this trip. The first is that in college, I was more into going to see bands at live venues. Then again, my roommate was in a band for a while. So I was a roadie by proxy :) However, about the time that I met Mark, I was moving from smoke clubs with hit or miss music

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This is just a quick plug. My sister's friend, Sachie, works for a foundation that supports Angkor Hospital for Children. They are in need of a number of things that I know I take for granted as being at the local drug store or in an endless supply at any hospital or clinic in the United States. I'm actually wishing I had taken a look at the wish list first. I had plenty of room in my luggage

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One of the biggest struggles I have right now is feeling like I can take off of work. Everyone has their own situation. For me, there's always more issues at work. There's never enough time to get everything "done done". And I always feel guilty for leaving. Mainly I worry that I've forgotten some detail or I've forgotten to cross train someone on some aspect.This explains why last year I

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My Family, Jim, Church Family, My Friends who have become FamilyOn January 1, after a gentle decline, my grandmother passed away. Some of my earliest memories of her, aside from her wonderful heartfelt cooking, are her always telling me to "Pray to the Lord" and "Thank God for Every Day". In living a Good life, she was a good example of a Godly woman who planted and nurtured the seeds of my

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Ok ... I don't really want it for Christmas. But, if a Red Swingline Stapler should appear before me, I would be a very happy geek.

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Well, I did write Jason Yelverton.I have been reading Hieu's blog and I even caught up with her yesterday. Actually, I got here to blogspot / blogger via her link. How 'bout that.What else?Work's been busy, but good.I walked Blanche this morning before going to work. We saw some of the neighbors like the greyhound. That was good :)Lola is still in the hospital. We're praying for her every

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Things I need to do: Write back Jason Yelverton, and congrat him on his family :) Catch up at work, but isn't that always, Read Hieu Nguyen's blog Pray for the 2 people from my church who just left to help in Sri Lanka Pray for the people afected by the Tsunami, as well as everyone in Africa we always forget and all kinds of suffering in the world Pray for the family of Murdered

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So my Church is having a fundraiser for our benevolance fun. How you might ask? One of our members is selling Dallas Cowboy vs Philadelphia Eagles Tickets for Monday nov 15 and Sideline passes on ebay.. That's right, you get: 1. 2 tickets to Monday night football Texas Stadium, Section 14, Row 14, Seats 109 and 110 (these are great seats!) 2. Sideline passes 3. 2004 official Dallas Cowboys

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Someone else has some pictures up of Fleet's Ene-Man! ! !

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and the lesson of today ... it's a good idea to heat the water in a coffee maker for tea.... however not immediately after you brew some coffee ... even if you rinse out all the parts. bleh!

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be wery wery quieeet ... SO this is one of the quite times. Mark's fallen asleep infront of the TV and Blanche is sleeping with him on the couch. It' sabout 10:20 local time. I'm on his computer doing a little readong on how to make my own knoppix cd logged into my work computer to update gaim among other apps transfering files from my desktop down here to watch and watching a TechTV

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Who is Sangita A friend of mine asked me what a Snagita was since I keep referring to it in my blog. Well, for those who don't know, Sangita is a person. She's a friend I met through Kavita when we were in college. She's about my age. And she's still studying. That is, she's currently a medical resdient in Houston. She's still in school and she's my age. I can't really fathom how she

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what else Things have been really busy at work recently, Sangita. A few of the guys have left, new guys have come in. And there is always more and more work the client wants / needs. And Mark's on his way home from an evening meeting, so I'm gonna go warm food. Blanche is on her bed right now. I brought it up to the computer room here. She's just fluffed it a bit and made it cumfy, and

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Debian Hacker wanted Ok, BOFH 1 will be following his girlfriend up to Boston soon. We're going to need a Debian hacker / Sysadmin to replace him. Damned him for leaving! No really, it's all good but sucks for us if we don't find a good replacement. So if your'e a Debian Hacker and all around good geek, find me and email me ... please!

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every time i post, it's a new experience i realize that i'm probably a normal geek, but not a normal user. between work and home, i float between firefox, mozilla, opera, (and on windows machines) mozilla, opera, and IA (curse it's name). and sometimes i blog on these browsers. however, i feel like every time i blog, the ui for blogspot, my current home, is different. the layout is different

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Blanche the escapist So I let Blanche into the back today after our walk. After a few minutes, she didn't come back to the door. I popped out, called her name, and ... no Blanche. I got my shoes on because I knew that she had hopped the fence again. This time though, she wasn't over visiting the neighbor dog, Mackenzie. Nope, this time she was just exploring the neighborhood ... that

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Our Smart Girl I'm going to take a short little break here to talk about what's been going on with Blanche. Since we first got her, I had the luxury of staying at home with her for most of the day. There was all kinds of housework, errands, and jobsearch stuff that I could do at home. For the most part, I left her alone for max 4 hour periods during the day. Sometimes a little longer, but

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sangita ... oh so much to tell you and all the other people. blanche has had mutliple harrowing escapes inside and outside. we finally built a pen she couldn't escape from, and things were so not good ... oh ... so not good ... she looks like she was in a fight it's probably best if i don't explain. have i mentioned that there's not enough time in the day to work, take care of blanche, and

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doh! So I thought I had emailed everyone in my life that yes, I have started a new job. But I got a call from Leslie last night that nope, she hadn't heard. She deduced this fact from reading my blog. I promise to write more 'bout the job and such soon, and to give Leslie a call soon. But things are a bit busy at the moment. More soon :) V

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my amazon order arrived and it's a good thing, we're going to start up on some coding sooner than anyone expected. eep!, but exciting.

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if we are to believe the web page well, according to the united airlines site, his flight is currently in the air ... i feel ... really kind of torn up inside ... worry, longing, fear, hope, love ... must focus on the love and know that he'll be ok ... damned it's funny how things work out. but it's all good. he needs some time off and away from the work craziness. and i, quite frankly,

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the price of doing business it's official. i just called go-today.com, and canceled my part of the vacation. mark's still going. he needs some time off. but hey, i'm a working man and getting that paycheck :) still, it's a hard pill to swallow.

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this may be an excuse, but i did promise markie that there would be no extravagant expenses with this new job ... ie, no frivilous conspicious spending. i've already spent. visa and mc can attest to that. however, i just dropped a few (big) pennies on some computer books. and spent a few more dollars to get them here before weeks end. i'm counting them as a work expense. still, it hurts,

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Things to be afraid of blanche escaped pretty quickly today. in fact, in less than the 30 seconds it took to walk downstairs, she escaped. i'm hoping that she does ok outside today.

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and i'm not sure if I want to drink it the sysadmin guy here is a big debian apt-get kind of a guy. that's all good. however, he's evangalizing why it's better then rpms, red-carpet, etc. i'm not sure i want to be drinking this koolaid, all i know for sure is that i want to get productive ASAP ! ! !

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and it's all good Well people, I've got a working install of Linux ... err, kind of 2. I've got debian finally working on the first partition, but I am not sure what packages and all I ended up with. I had to retry a few times. The other is a HD install of knoppix ... which to be honest, I'm not sure that I really understand. But the final word is that I've got X, and things are all good.

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Day one Well, the office moved, and I followed them. So today is my first day on the job, and everyone's first day here at the new offices. I've had to put my undergrad scavenger skills to work to find a power cable, mouse, and patch cable. My new manager procured me a spare computer, monitor, and has done intros and helped get me settled. Although ... I'm eyeing one of the plants in the

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I had forgotten how much I loved Austin Ok, a few quick words about the trip to Austin this weekend. It was amazing. I got some of the pictures of Effie's engagement party and Nick's wedding uploaded to oFoto.com. For those without oFoto.com memberships, you can view the pictures at here (and someone let me know if the link doesn't work). If you have an oFoto membership and want to see this

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And I'm not even sure if I've spelled it correctly So the Texas Primaries were today. I went and voted. I came back for the cacus meeting. And since there were only 7 people there and we are allocated 13 delegates ... well ... not only am I a delegate to the next level ... well, you see ... I brought a note pad in, so I became the secretary. Oh boy, this is how it starts.

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Such an amazing weekend, more soon I had such an amzaing weekend in Austin. Effie's engagement party, seeing friends, Nick's wedding, all kind of amazing foods. And Austin itself. I've got a lot of catching up to do here that I'm still in the middle of, so I'll blog it later. I know, I'm kind of behind on major things going on. I haven't even blogged about Manchu Pichu. More to come,

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For those of you who are worried because much of what I've been posting is for Sangita For those of you who have been worried becuase I've been posting so much about Blanche, please rest assured things are alright. Indeed, I am getting out more. Yes, the job search is going well. I'm trying to type this entry up fast so that I've got time to get changed and relax a bit before the next round

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We had a mid morning walk Sangita, FYI, Blanche and I had a mid morning walk. I had to get some stuff faxed off and such, but we did eventually get out there for a walk. She got to run around a bit with the wind really kicking up. I think she really enjoyed that.

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It is a sad thing to beg for your life Don't worry, Sagita, the quote is from _The West Wing_. It was said in a parable of the all too true and ignored plight of Africa and many other parts of the world where AIDS ravages whole familes and is ... whole towns, whole generations ... This should have all stopped in the 80s. It should have just been lingering in the 90s. ... And it's still here

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It's my birthday, and it's not an issue... Yep, it's my birthday. It's my brithday. Wow! I don't know that I feel older. However, I feel like I've learned a lot in this past year. I feel like I've there have been some pretty significant changes. And before my brother says this blog going Doogie... Mark and I have recently joined a Church that both of us get something out of

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I'm currently prepping for an interview, but ... In the back of my mind is outrage. I'm going to admit it, it's plain outrage. President Bush's support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage brings this debate to the forefront, removes the focus from the economy, jobs, the current state of Iraq and Afganistan, the probes into the intellegence that brought us to Iraq, the probes

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Thoughts on Marriage I'm still working through my thoughts on marriage. However, my neighbor passed on a reprint of a Time Magazine article by Andrew Sullivan. I think it hits part of the nail on the head. The Article can be found at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040216-588877,00.html. One of the most important parts is probably: When people talk about gay marriage

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Club, Pub, Coffee House ... and Cello playing Bach? That's right, there is this dude bringing Bach to Clubs, Pubs, Coffee Houses in every one of the 50 states. His site is http://oxingale.com I'd really like to go, but I don't know if Mark and I will make it.

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This one is for Sangita There is nothing really exciting with Blanche going on these days. We did go for a walk today. I did have to get her attention and do a little "run with me" so that she didn't see a dead bird in the neighbor's lawn. But there were no movements. We are in the process of trying to make a little doggie-coat for her. After all, there's not enough fat or fur to protect

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I object! That's the kind of thing I think of with regards to a defense. However, Lonny's going through his PHD dissertation defense Monday. We're all wishing him luck, but we know he'll pass! Break a leg Lonny! ! !

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And we have a winner ladies and gentlemen Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like the Harmony Remote SST-659 is our winner! It's a universal remote that: You program via a USB port Has a number of AV components and more being added all the time Has a number of "other" components Has lots of real buttons Can be programmed for Macros Can learn from your remote Has light up

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Is Clarity too much to ask for? There was an article that went through the Japan style of Techno-fetish not too long ago. One guy who sticks in my mind insisted that he needed a larger Memory Stick; when pressed to explain why, he really couldn't answer the why. I kind of feel like that guy right now. Backgrounder: Mark's wanted to upgrade the TV for a while. Something bigger, something

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XFDrake runs at the command line ... how good ... if I had only realized that a week or so ago.

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What is Flotsum and Jetsum I have no idea what Flotsum and Jetsum are. I think that they have something to do with debris on rivers, but I'm not sure. Anyway ... what makes me think of them is that I'm going through trying to cancel such things off of my cards. I'm embarrased to say that I did indeed sign up for 2 credit watching / notification services. My original thought was to compare

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One holiday down, 2 to go Well, I've survived Thanksgiving. That sounds bad. It was actually quite lovely. I'm surprised that Mark and I held up so well since we arrived Wed. But we were our usual lucid selves. The food was great. It was nice seeing everyone again, but a bit overwhelming too.

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we're back i've showered after 20 hours in transit. i finally feel clean

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Did I mention that we will be in China? From the surpised look on one of my neighbors face, I realized I've forgotten to mention that we'll be visiting China. Yes, we are about to travel to Beijing, spend some time in a land where we speak none of the native language. While we hope to pick up some tea, we are all a bit intimidated by the language barrier. It should be fun though ...

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Mark and I are still reading it, but it's actually a good book. It's Tye is there walking through his house, just talking, and you don't have to worry about him pulling a supersoaker out of nowhere.

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You'll never guess who came to JR's Bar and Grill, a local gay bar! That's right Ty The Handy Guy himself, Ty Pennington! He was there to sign his book, Ty's Tricks. Mark and I got to meet him up close, get the book signed, and thank him for coming. Thankfully, Mark prevented me from bringing, oh say, a power drill or a tool box. Ty was signing ONLY copies of his book.

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Oh my ... there was something going on with Austin traffic. Eric and Ted are just now leaving Austin. More specifically, I think that they were just now leaving Pflugerville. We think that they will arrive sometime early in the morn. And in the "Foot in the mouth" category, I asked Eric if he remembered where the Thermostat was and how it works. The words were along the lines of "Vinnie, I

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Ever have an instinct of what you're going to say before you find out the facts to back it up? I'm taking not that it's an odd feeling.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1067896755767275102003-11-03T15:59:00.000-06:002003-11-03T15:59:30.093-06:00

Well, the Clean Sweep of my Office is going well. I've moved a few of the furniture pieces back in and a file cabinet. Already, I'm working my filing system in. So, so far so good :)

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1067462039982082752003-10-29T15:13:00.000-06:002003-10-29T15:14:08.326-06:00

oh ... the blogger has a title field ... well, don't i feel silly.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1066930250113812572003-10-23T12:30:00.000-05:002003-10-23T12:30:49.820-05:00

There, that wasn't so bad I flossed this morning, no fuss, no muss.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1066784610274050832003-10-21T20:03:00.000-05:002003-10-21T20:03:30.423-05:00

No Floss == Cavity That's right boys and girls. I've got a cavity... isn't there supposed to be an "e" in there somewhere? Regardless of the spelling, it's my fault for not flossing daily. Luckily, Alvin introduced me to one of the people at church who is a Dentist, I got an appointment today, and will be able to get it filled tomorrow. ... yeah.

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oh dear God! An Azeri police officer pursuing a man today in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, during a demonstration called by supporters of an opposition presidential candidate, Isa Gambar. The Full article (with free NY Times registration) is at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/international/asia/16CND-AZER.html

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oh, and Blanche Oh, and Sangeeta, I've just let Blanche outside. It's a nice day out and she likes sunning herself in the warm sun.

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You know the name, now own the watch.... or maybe honey, what are you reading? I've been a fan of Plucker for a while. Basically, Plucker's Desktop component convert files, compress then, and allow them to be viewed on your palm pilot with a little Plucker app. Notice I said files. Something on your hard drive, something on the web, a graphics file, text with graphics on a map page, a text

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Sold to the man in black I know, you could see by checking the auction, but the Saveur did indeed sell.

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Saveur Collection, Number 2 So we have put a Saveur 2 on eBay. That's right, you can now complete your collection buy buying our extra copy of this issue. This is the end of our shameless Marketing Plug.

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no pictures today ok, I still haven't uploaded my London pics. Heck, I don't think we've even done the redeye correction yet. It'll come, it'll come. On a side note, I've had some bad juju with the most current firmware for my router. I had to backdown to an older one. What is the world coming to?

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we're back, good times, good times We're back from London. We had an amazing time. More soon.

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who is Sylvia Oh, Sangeeta: FYI, Jathan is Mark's nephew. His laptop arrived like hours after he left for school. So Mark and I are bringing it to him. Oh, we're going to London for a week. I think I forgot to mention that too. We'll be doing the tourist thing. I'm so excited! ! ! Hopefully we'll see Jiwoh as well as Jathan. Though I haven't had a chance to go and look for those 40

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Jathan, your computer is on it's way Jathan, your computer currently has Eudora, MS Office Student Edition (including word, and excel), Norton Virus Scanner, Norton Firewall, Norton Systemworks, Spybot Search and Destroy, Quicktime, Real Player, Music Match, Windows Media Player, Trillian, Gaim, Britianica Encyclopedia, all the MS Windows and Office Critical Updates up to this time stamp, Opera

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I wish I could TiVo my life sometimes I've sometimes wished that I could pause life for just a moment. I think that everyone has. However, after having owned a TiVo for a while (don't tell me you don't already know what one is!), I want so much more now.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1063296797469759162003-09-11T11:13:00.000-05:002003-09-11T11:13:17.470-05:00

Wait, did I patch that already? NPR news just reported that there are 3 additional holes that Microsoft just announced and patched. I just did a critical update on the home computers. Does that mean that I'm behind? Do I need to patch again? There have been so many patches recently that I don't know if I'll ever keep up.

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They're under $50 So my cousin was asking about networking computers together. I sent him a link to some hardware, a cable/DSL Modem router hub combo. Off of the practicallynetworked.com site, I found my router. I bought it new for $120 or so. They're going for under $50 now! I know computer hardware drops fast, but man! Of course, this still begs the question: Why are cables still so

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Anyone else hungry? I just realized it's 1 PM. Haven't done lunch yet. No wonder I'm starting to get a bit moody ... or maybe that's my general discontent with the US Policy in Iraq. No ... I'm pretty sure it's hunger.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1063042767176646832003-09-08T12:39:00.000-05:002003-09-08T12:39:27.183-05:00

I'm taking defensive driving online I'm taking defensive driving to lower my insurance. The increase of 2 months of my insurance will pay for it. Let's hope it's not that bad.

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She didn't seem interested in a walk today I let Blanche out to do her business. Then I came back, put her food out, and she didn't go for it. She didn't give any of the usual signs that she wanted a walk. She usually wants a morning walk though. Was I just not hearing her say it?

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1063042239694272162003-09-08T12:30:00.000-05:002003-09-08T12:30:39.730-05:00

It was It was just the goBack. Jathan's computer now has been skerlicked and installed without goBack.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1062716277557744002003-09-04T17:57:00.000-05:002003-09-04T17:57:57.543-05:00

Maybe it's goback Jathan's laptop came with Norton System Works 2003 which includes GoBack Personal Edition 3.11. I'm now wondering if this question GoBack compatibility with Windows XP is saying that only the Professional Edition is good on Windows XP. Mind you, we're talking about XP home. We're also talking about software that shipped with the computer. But it makes sense. GoBack does

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I'm really starting to dispise that computer I can now only boot into safe mode. Non of the extensive scans come up with anything. I need this computer working and ready to travel by the 16th. Things are so not looking good.

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uggghhhh... Jathan, I hope you're not reading this Since we've got the DSL connection, my nephew, Jathan, has left his new laptop here for updates and installation of various utilities. I got the 26 Critical MS service packs installed last night. However, after I tried to install the "Default Applications" control pannel, things have so not been happy. The computer is now hanging in a

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Who would have thought! First of all, props to my cous. My cousin Wilson took a few days off and is in town to visit. Granted, he's currently still out with an ex-coworker at this late hour... Cowboys pre season game, probably some catching up too, he's got a key, it's all good ... unless he forgets the gate code and has to call to get buzzed in ... *knock on wood* ... but props to him for

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Has utexas.edu lost some of it's cache? Mark's newphew and niece (2 of the 8) are now both at UT. If you look them up on the student directory, they have their yahoo and aol addresses listed. Neither has a utexas.edu address listed. Has that address lost it's cache? I remember that I couldn't wait to get out of highschool, get to college, and get a real email address. Only college people

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pics are up, kind of Ok, I put some pictures of the reunion up on the net. I'll annotate 'em later. In short, Mark and I had such a blast at the reunion!

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Oh that was so good The reunion went great, I had a great time, learned a lot ... more later, too tired.

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Time to get going Ok, emails have been sent a plenty. People have been begged and threatened with black strappy shoes. The 10 year aniversary for Jersey Village class of '93 is this weekend ... ie, tonight and tomorrow night. See you peeps there!

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1061479086881347842003-08-21T10:18:00.000-05:002003-08-21T10:18:06.880-05:00

My parents are living off the map Ugggh! My parents have recently moved to Katy. I finally got their postal address from my sister. However, mapquest, mapblast, and yahoo maps all can't find the address. It must be too new for them. My parents have moved off the Map!

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Everyone make sure to cut Kavita some slack Ok, Kavita's in the process of getting her house ready to be show to be sold, etc. She's a bit behind, she's been working like a dog. She hasn't bought her reunion tickets yet. Everyone make sure to cut her some slack!

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1061393548980703212003-08-20T10:32:00.000-05:002003-08-20T10:32:28.980-05:00

In Medias res My good friend Erik just wrote a Friendster Testimonial for me. I'm afraid that I'll have to add you as a friend for you to see it ... so just email me at expeditrixvinnie A.T. y a h o o D-O_T com, and I'll add you. Anyways, it goes something like this: I've been hanging out with Vinnie for 11 years now. Vinnie ain't family, but he treats me like family. And I see him as

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1061078962094588372003-08-16T19:09:00.000-05:002003-08-16T19:20:43.116-05:00

How about that? So an alumni of Jersey Village High School has put up a free alumni site. That's right boys and girls, it's free. Donations accepted. You can post your pics, a bit 'bout what you're doing, etc. The guy who runs it even added in another Relationship category when I pointed out that there wasn't a gay friendly one. How cool is that! And, there's even a little buzz on the

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We've got Ethan and FAMILY, what more do we need That's right boys and girls, it's Ethan and FAMILY. Our good Ethan. Our little ... ok, he was always tall. It's no longer Ethan and girlfriend. It's no longer Ethan and wife. Heck, we can't even say Ethan and Jennifer. Ethan and Jennifer are expecting a little baby boy! They've got a whole family going on! Who would a thunk it? Anyway,

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1060347228180658882003-08-08T07:53:00.000-05:002003-08-08T07:53:47.966-05:00

Oh, and for Sangeeta and the Reunion crowd Oh, and for Sangeeta: Blanche has recently taken to not immediately eating her breakfast. Of course, this could have to do with our lazyness. We're leaving her bowl out for her throught the day. She eventually gets to it sometime between mid morning and early afternoon. And to the Jersey Village HS class of '93, ie my 10 year reunion crowd: Dude,

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1060346998631503822003-08-08T07:49:00.000-05:002003-08-08T07:50:27.110-05:00

Congress scared, new view from an op-ed, where's my tea I haven't had a cup of tea yet today. So my thoughts are still a bit fluid. However, even my half lucid brain recognizes that This ZDNet Article / Op-Ed piece has some interesting points that has not yet been made by the usual players critiquing congress, the RIAA et al, and ordinary citizens with regard to how copyright, piracy, and the

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We did have style once ... Bill Maher is on Fresh Air right now. Among other things, he pointed out that straight males of today need a makeover. However, at one time, men had style. They had hats. They had slick jackets. What happened?

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1059839361062108152003-08-02T10:49:00.000-05:002003-08-02T10:49:20.920-05:00

bought ... boughten ... have bought ... having been bought ... some words just never cease to amaze me in how odd they sound.

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What was "nift"? / They're bought I have no idea what nift is. I think that my last blog entry was me telling the computer to save some random text that I had entered into the blog page. Strange. I wonder if there are other random non-entries. Well, I've bought them. I've bought my tickets to the Jersey Village Class of 93 Reunion. The 10 year reunion. It should be one strange event.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1059680843171825382003-07-31T14:47:00.000-05:002003-07-31T14:47:23.133-05:00

nift

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That whine means that she wants to play I'm currently trying to finish up some research for a job meeting tomorrow. I say trying becuase Blanche, our beloved quadraped, is doing a lot of whining right now. She's usually very silent. She usually just kind of minds her own life. However, she's whining a lot right now. I believe the whine is "I want some attention. I want to play. Pay

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It wasn't in the pilot I'm trying to remember how I remembered phone numbers and meetings before my pilot. Sometimes, it's the act of putting a meeting in that locks the memory into my mind ... in addition to having an alarm go off the day before.

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1058805105798488562003-07-21T11:31:00.000-05:002003-07-21T11:31:45.710-05:00

There is no Jessie, Melissa, Hillary, or Julia at this number I'll accept people getting used to a new number for a while. I'll accept people misdialing a number; I do it all the time. However, I'm convenced that the previous owners (yes, I meant plural) must have either a large number of people they owe money to or have this number scrawled on the inside of a bathroom somewhere! The number

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1058800777063961122003-07-21T10:19:00.000-05:002003-07-21T10:19:37.043-05:00

This post is primarily for Sangita I was talking to Sangita the other day. She mentioned how entertaining she was finding this blog. Now in her defense, since I consider this to still be a pretty boooorrring blog, nothing as informative as Ted's at tedbarlow.blogspot.com or such, but ... anyway ... Sangita is in her medical resdency program. For those not in the know, which is probably

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1058631422247675462003-07-19T11:17:00.000-05:002003-07-19T11:17:02.226-05:00

oh ... the other things ... found out some news about a friend. i don't know him that well, but that doesn't make me feel any less for him... i'm not ready to even talk about it, but it still hits the heart. he's in my prayers

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1058631330681732182003-07-19T11:15:00.000-05:002003-07-19T11:15:30.666-05:00

Train wrecks ... and other things From the weekend of the 4th of July ... I mean to talk about how things went. Several people came into town. I had forgotten Mark was on call so he couldn't really stray far from home. 2 of the Nephews came over, there was BBQ, there was visiting ... And I ended up not even calling everyone who was in town. I know, I know, "I forgot" ... "time got away

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Will you be my friendster Well, I've been sucked into the latest trend. I've added myself as a friendster. Part of my motiviation is to get a few people on who need to find boyfriend / girlfriend action. I hear it's really good for that. The other part? I wanna be part of the latest trend!

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1058298330507656742003-07-15T14:45:00.000-05:002003-07-15T14:45:30.483-05:00

Things are going along much better I don't know if I've mentioned this, but ... Q3 has picked up nicely. The response of Recruiters seems very hopful. I've found a few more networking groups here in Dallas. I think that the job front is picking up :)

Vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10228359283483238293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3733086.post-1057941512797767122003-07-11T11:38:00.000-05:002003-07-11T11:38:32.693-05:00

Modem for sale I've got a spare 56K WinModem from Pragmatic that I've never opened. I'm selling it on eBay ITEM 3422801967 ... anyone interested?

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What is the way, the path, the goal? Who are you? What do you want? Do you have anything to live for? Whom do you serve and who do you trust? Questions from Babylon5 and JMS. ... hence questions from many places about how to live, how to determine how to live, and what it means ... *sigh* ... as you can guess, I'm feeling a bit lost at the moment. Hopefully, it's just a little low blood

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