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good friends coming over soon, trying to do last minute cleanup. The house is still trashed from Christmas

up at 6am with scared little girl, we had a lighting storm and very high winds.

watching sleeping beauty with my little girl, then time for her nap

Grace slept in today, yeah!!! Wife has to work today so I have to do the grocery shopping w/ Grace should be interesting.

Christmas morning was great, Grace was so happy santa left her gifts and Melissa made a great breakfast!

Great time opening gifts. Grace loves the camera and workbench we got her. We read twas the night before Christmas now Grace's off to bed

Merry Christmas everyone, just finished a great dinner now its time for gifts!

its been snowing all day. Now the flakes are huge. guess I'll be snow blowing again this afternoon :-(

Good morning Monday, more snow, thanks

We are under a blizzard warning!!! I snowblowed this morning and you can't even tell right now.

odd, facebook won't load for me.

so tired, up at 5am to work on the data center move. So far everything is going as scheduled.

Just got done snowblowing over 12 inches of snow.

WOW, a foot of snow by noon today. The wind is blowing hard!

neighbor was snowblowing at 6am this morning. Not a good way to wake up!

What a great Sunday, I didn't even change out of my pj's

woke up on the wrong side of the bed and its REALLY cold out!!

Catching up on RSS feeds and emails.

sweet, gamefly just sent me Fable 2

Upgraded vcenter to the latest version

Happy the AD trust is stable. Now onto other projects

Back from the jingle bell parade. VERY cold, but we all had fun

Just come inside from playing in the snow with Grace. Really her first time 'playing' in the snow. Plus I had to snow blow the driveway

great way to end the day..hotdog dance,3 books, and a kiss good night.

Working hard to finish a few small projects

rebuilding a drive on a Dell 2450, yeah that's old

Back from a Great weekend at Grandma's

The Lions are just awful

Putting up the Christmas tree today, its early but we have a busy Thanksgiving weekend coming up

Digg is worse than Xbox live when it comes to cursing and calling people names

What is the largest file system windows can have? I've heard the c: drive has to be smaller than 2TB on win2003 what about the nonboot drive

I hate NFL games on Thursday. I forget to set my fantasy team, and I don't have NFL network so I can't watch them :-(

commvault support has been some of the best support I've experienced.

snow on the ground and a 3 car crash on the way into work. Michigan yeah, baby

Server weekend work tonight. I'll be here until atleast midnight.

Just finished racking some wet leaves, not a fun weekend

sweet I got picked for the early NXE update!!

blah, this cold dark weather is making my feel, blah

The sleet and slush is really coming down now.

why in the world is a wireless driver 96 MB!!!

looking for zoomgo peers

time to start the honey-do list

I need to spell check and re-read my twits before I post :-)

sleet, its I wake up to sleet..

Good morning, its friday, hooray!!

If the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, what is the speed of dark? - From Google Things to Ponder

Another lazy sunday, watching the lions put up a fight this week.

Anyone have a Intense Debate invite code for the wordpress plugin?

Anyone want to join/start a wordpress boinc team?

Starting running boinc at home again. I can't belive there is not an easy way to display your boinc project stats on your webpage (or a wordpress plugin)

I didn't know vmware had ELA's
Anyone looked into these? What's a general number of ESX boxes you need to make these worth it?

Happy Halloween!!

Waiting for a 550GB vm to move to another vmfs. its taking forever!!! and the China users are starting work....

downloading an update for the wii, its taking forever!!

just picked up the wii fit at target. I'll get it setup tonight after the football games

CMU 38 - WMU 28
yeah!!!

CMU up 14-0 early in the first quarter!!! Go Chips!!

argg, I swore windows 2003 standard x64 supported more than 4GB of Ram....

igoogle's new layout is interesting.
I think I like the tabs at the top, they take up less screen up top.

I remember using cheap ~$30 software that help easy managing windows permissions, it color coded the folders based on the acl's? anyone?

Heading to Lewis Farms this weekend http://ping.fm/HR2jr

It Friday and I'm speeding toward the weekend.

Where can I get on a waiting list for a wii fit? Looking for legit well know businesses only and I'm only willing to pay list price 89.99 for it.

Today just flew by, unracking servers to be recycled and a long meeting about the data center design.

looking for a gamefly deal. I checked ebates but they didn't have anything. Money back for signing up would be nice. Anyone have any links?

Moving desk and offices again, but we are getting a bigger server room!!! yeah

Wow, its been quit a day, finalizing budgets, getting PO's for two new projects, demolition on server room underway. Busy, busy lots of new things coming up!!

Grace is down for a nap, Melissa's in MP. Gotta pickup the house, then relax and watch some football.

Can one know of a way to check yahoo mail from gmail without a client application?

Grace slept in until 8:30, a little extra sleep for me! sweet. Off to the playground today

It's Friday morning!!! Yeah, only one meeting. I'll be able to get a lot done, I hope

Back at working sitting in a video conf with our China site.

Millen's gone!!! http://ping.fm/yhuHO

Home from camping in time for football! yeah

Its friday, half-day today.Camping this weekend.

wishing I was at vmworld :-(
But I am busy working on a new server room and new backup solution!

why can't I use "Your xbox daddy" as my xbox live profile motto?

sitting down and enjoying football season

That should have been restoring ERP databases

Storing ERP databases. The DAS shelf for that server dies this morning. Going to be a fun day :-)

Enjoying a nice morning with Grace.

Trend's not catching the latest UPS zip virus. Its been a fun two days.

NBC has the WORST half time crew EVER!!

So it's not so...Brady could be out for the season.

friendfeed is nice, but I wish it would automagically track all my friends twits,plurks,pownce,etc

Just got back from the children's museum, we had a great time with Becky,Brian, and Isaac.

Working on a failing server

woke up this morning and my moxi's dead :-(

GO BLUE

beer,xbox, and football my saturday is ready to start and done!

upgrading celerra and clariion code

Just can't get going today. Working on AD sync between forest..

Still trying to find a good way to backup my celerra :-(

Working on the data center design and backup test today.

Just got the call, ~$2000 to fix the truck. Ouch

Good morning, we got a full nights sleep. Grace only woke up once. yah!!

its been a long week already with a sick child and little sleep. I hope Grace can sleep through the night tonight.

IM spam DIE !!!!

up late, working on China's email server. Offline addressbooks on Exchange are lots of fun

Happy Friday, I'm taking a vacation next week, yeah!!!

This week has been dragging by. I've been really busy, but its only wednesday

watching preseason football!!!

watching preseason football!!!

watching preseason football!!!

watching preseason football!!!

Restoring an exchange database to restore a deleted file, just started the eseutil

Argg, why isn't ATT Uverse in my neighborhood yet? Its in other areas around me :-(

Any central web contact manger that can two way sync with gmail and google apps contacts? I don't think plaxo does two way.

Mah Nà Mah Nà

Looking for a wireless media streamer for SD movies and TV with a really nice GUI

Good morning Friday, oh how I have been waiting for you

Heading home for the day. Yeah!!!

Testing different backup software solutions. Just need to get my hands on a demo copy of comvault

wow what a day EMC had on the market up over 13%

about to dig into the vmware consolidation section of virtualcenter

Its been a crazy day. The UPS is on bypass, found on one of our clusters is not on support (someone missed an email) I'm not going to sleep well tonight!

Today is flying by..

Just saw the Dark Knight.....One word....Awesome!!!

had a great time bowling last night.

Half way through the week. Blah

all of the E3 streaming sites seem to be down

Another great Sunday, church, pronto pups, nap....

I just signed up at seconbrain.com I've imported my sites...now what??

Watching the A-Team on Hulu

Up to 3am drinking beer and playing xbox. Now its time to get the honey-do list done.

So ready for the weekend. But I will be at work Saturday night doing upgrades

vmotioning servers during the middle of the day is so fun. Upgrading another ESX server to 3.5

What a great afternoon, its been slow so I've been able to catch up on some paper work and little things that just needed to be done.

Not good, looks like GM is going to lay of 1000's

Not a good sunday, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and have been in a crappy mood all day.

Anyone have a flip mino? 60 minutes seem sorta short, if you take it on trip you'd need to bring your computer...feedback?

Can anyone recommend a good site for camcorder reviews.

how do I use ping.fm to post to identi.ca since I used openid?

Why is the gears of war 2 disc edition so hard to find?!?

Had a great day at the zoo with Grace. Now I'm trying to get her to lay down for a nap. Its not going well

best budget CPU/motherboard combo for building a vista media center box?

Not good, I just put an ESX server into maintenance mode to upgrade it and vm are timing out during the vmotion..

Can anyone confirm that Gears of War two-disk set released today? I have a best buy gift certificate I'm waiting to use for this.

So ready for lunch, but my lunch meeting isn't until 12:30 :-(

Going to get Subway and meet Melissa and Grace for lunch at the park

QT with my little girl

Sitting in a video conference with China

Talking Cisco Vs Microsoft for collaboration and unified messaging

Anyone running vista media center and a xbox 360? how easy is it to rip DVDs and watch them on the xbox 360

On the plan for today...Server room power, charge back cost for backups and DRAC replacement

coloring with Grace

stupid Dell DRAC...

Yeah, its Friday. Upgrading ESX servers today.

Planning ESX 3.02 to 3.5 upgrade.

wow my grammar really suffers sending these short quick messages.

I feels like its been a really long week

ARGGG, I can't hold back. MAC people drive me nuts :-)

Collect documentation on upgrading virtual center.

Is there anyway to view my sidebar layout in wordpress 2.5.1, like it was in 2.3. I like to see both sidebars next to each other and be able to drag between them. Plus the latest version doesn't seem to like Firefox

Fathers day was great, lots of time with Grace and Melissa. 22 months is a great age

back in Grand Haven, working on the servers.

What's the best windows base cell phone from verizon or ATT right now or coming soon?

I hope the rain holds off so I can mow today

I signed up for Xanga, all I get is spam comments and 'eprops' What a waste

My brother-inlaw had their baby this morning. Congrats to them!

power outage this morning, found a few devices not plugged into the UPS :-(

power outage this morning, found a few devices not plugged into the UPS :-(

I have a bad headache.

Heading to off site meetings until the afternoon. Nice to get out of the office.

Heading to off site meetings until the afternoon. Nice to get out of the office.

Monday after a weekend of heavy storms. Hopefully they don't follow me to work

Monday after a weekend of heavy storms. Hopefully they don't follow me to work

Church, then pronto pups and ice cream for lunch, now a nap. Only thing missing is football

Twitter is currently down for temporary maintenance. Twitter Oh how I miss you.

Now, that I'm using Ping.fm to send my outgoing updates. I'm updating much more...not sure if that's good or bad

Now, that I'm using Ping.fm to send my outgoing updates. I'm updating much more...not sure if that's good or bad

http://ping.fm/MpJ2A
31 Wordpress people to follow on Twitter. Too bad twitter isn't working so I can add them :-(

http://ping.fm/MpJ2A
31 Wordpress people to follow on Twitter. Too bad twitter isn't working so I can add them :-(

twitter seems flacky again today. Trying to follow a few more people and errors...

it'd be nice if friendsfeed could import my twitter friends list automagically :-)

Good morning everyone, I got a rash of facebook invite the last few days. Interesting....

ick, its very muggy out tonight. Meetings didn't go to well this afternoon.

Meetings for the rest of the day.

Meetings for the rest of the day.

So I have ping.fm posting to multiple micro-bloggins sites. But how to I track and add friends to 4 micro-blog sites :-)

So I have ping.fm posting to multiple micro-bloggins sites. But how to I track and add friends to 4 micro-blog sites :-)

Good morning world, really for an interesting Thursday

Hey, Hey, Hockey Town. Let me hear you

Too bad they didn't win it at home, the crowd in Pittsburgh (of course) isn't into now. The awards and Cup presentation

The Red Wings Win the Cup!!!! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah....