First I would like to thank Julianne for all the kid sitting she has done for us in the last 2 weeks. Carolyn and I really need the break and Avery just hates having to go to the hospital. She really loves hanging with you and Bea..

And she wanted to say hi….

It’s been a long August. My father In-Law is back in the hospital and my sister In-Law is back. It’s just been a bad month for Carolyn. I hope the rest of the year goes better for her.

Yesterday was Carolyn’s and mine 10 year wedding anniversary..we did nothing. Actually we went out the night before to Macaroni Grill..we were not impressed. That’s about all we did.

The last few weeks at work have been going pretty well. Got the new mail server running on the new server. Now I just have to start getting the small things working. Like the company wide address book, public folders, and getting web mail working faster. Then I will get to go around and switch all the clients over to IMAP from POP3. Oh the fun.

Weekend plans look like I am going to redo Carolyn machine tonight and then redo the WAP to really become a WAP and hand out addresses and DNS settings. It will make my life easier when I take the laptop to work and back. I also plan to finally watch “Lord of the Rings”. If you are in the area give a call and stop over and hang. I should be home all weekend…

Weather has been good and cool. I’ve been getting better nights sleep now that the AC is off and the fan is back in the window.

Took Carolyn out for dinner and a movie last night. Got Jule to baby sit and she and Avery got along splendidly.

We went to the China Buffet for dinner then saw “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”. I would recommend this movie big time. It was the first movie I have been too in a long time where the crowd really laughed at everything funny. It was funny and very touching. It made me think of my own family…reduce the number of cousins and aunts and make them Italian instead of Greek and you have the Bilancio’s.

Now all I have to do is write a quick review for La Vigna on line.

Work is going well I am working on the laptop and trying to get the 3com wireless card to work with Linux so I can take it home and use it on my network…more on this later.

Spent most of Saturday at work. I decided to install the Adaptec RAID 3210s controller and 2 more 34 GIG drives in to the FTP/WEB box at work. The install of the hardware went well. I made a RAID 5 container to get a total of 101.75 gig and a drive for parity.

Stuff started happening when I went to install Red Hat 7.2. When the install got to formatting the partitions it would stop formatting at the biggest partition and the and the numbers 4,7 and 6 LEDS on the RAID controller just kept blinking. After moving the drives around and switching the cable it still kept doing it. I finally went to Adaptec’s site and re-read all the info they had on Linux and buried at the bottom of this article was the answer. Of course it’s been fixed in the Red Hat 7.3 kernels. If I had found this article around 4pm I wouldn’t have been here till 9:30pm. At least I had allot of good tunes to listen to.

Came back on Sunday to get the web mail set up so our new employee in Minnesota could get his E-Mail. Spent only about 5 hours here so I think with the 2 days of adventures I should have enough money to get a new laptop for myself and give the old one to Carolyn.

Finished up the whole FTP/WEB server this morning and can now coast for a few days before I start loading Q-Mail on the box for the new mail server. Guess I am finally going to have to go to the supermarket and get groceries now that Avery and Carolyn are done working on the father in law thing.

Wow what a week. The La Vigna picnic was a blast. Hung out with Ira and his friend Molly as well as my dad’s cousin Angelo’s kids who are finally at the age of acceptance by the over 30 crew. So Jule and Bea welcome to the dark side you have landed among thieves.

Things are moving ahead with my father in-law and getting him better. The hospital doesn’t think he will be going back to his current residence but to a managed care facility. Charlotte and Carolyn and I sat down last night and crunched the numbers and came up with the magic numbers range for what we can all afford to pay a month. It also has been decided Carolyn has to get a job as soon as Avery goes back to school.

Now on to Avery the demon child….she is back home after only 1.5 days with my parents. She cried and complained the whole time in the car on the way to Boston. My mom finally just turned around and brought her home. Avery is now on super secret probation. She is not allowed to see any new movies, watch TV (digital cable just payed for it self by allowing me to lock out all her TV stations). She will also be doing allot more work around the house. I have lined up baby sitters so Carolyn and I can go out like we planed to do while she was away. At least now I won’t have to drive to Bath to get her.

The laptop has started a slow death I think. I told Carolyn we have to get another one and she agreed. So the hunt is on today to find good Linux friendly laptop at a reasonable price. More on this later.