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New Car Smell

Well I am the proud owner of a 2003 Chevy Cavalier. I want to say thanks to my cousin John who drove me the 7 hours to Salem Va on Sat and followed me back another 7 hours home.

Except for the torrential rain and 0% visibility at a few spots the trip was real nice. I got to see my uncle for a few minutes and have a good long discussion with John. We Left my house around 11:30 Sat morning and and made it to Salem by 7pm with a stop at a Crackle Barrel for lunch. I signed all the papers and had a quick dinner with my uncle and we were back on the road by 8:30pm. I hit Lawrenceville at 10 to 4 in the morning and was in bed by 4am.

I will throw some photos of the new car up later in the week.

Again THANKS John for the ride.

A hello and a new car

Got a E-mail last night from one of my cousins on my mothers side. It opened with “I did a search for you name and you are all over the Internet.” SO a big hello to my cousin Alice.

Well the car was back in the shop this week and the mechanic won’t even work on it any more. It has a problem in the wiring harness and that alone cost a little over $500.00 not including labor. So I called my uncle who is the car dealer in the family and who we buy our cars from. He is putting me into a 2003 Chevy Cavalier. It’s an automatic which I am not to keen on but maybe it will get Carolyn driving sooner. So I am in the waiting stage, waiting for the Credit Union to let me know about the loan. I should find out this afternoon if I get the money. If I do then it will be time to figure out how I am going to get to Virginia to get the car because I really don’t trust the Neon for that long of a drive…..

Bachelor for a few days

I am on my own till Friday. My wife and daughter are spending a few days with my sister in-law in Rode Island and Boston. So since I am on my own my car has started acting up again and the weather sucks. Just my luck.

So I guess I will work on a few projects around the house and see what I can get done. I can’t spackle because it’s to humid from the rain we are getting.

I guess I can stop by MRS. G’s and look at dishwashers and see what they have.

Picnic Day 2003 has come and gone

Spent most of last week at my aunt and uncles getting the property ready for the La Vigna Picnic/Bea & John’s wedding. It took Dean and I a good 3 evenings to get the sound system set up and tuned. My parents showed up on Friday morning so my mom could start on the flowers for the wedding.

The wedding started at 1 on Sat and blended right into the picnic at 2. It was a great affair. Check out the La Vigna Web site for pictures of both the wedding and picnic in the photo gallery. New pictures will be add as they come in.

It was one of the better picnics. I am already working on new ideas for next year, which is the 20th anniversary of the family news paper so I think we need to do something big. Any ideas let me know.

What the Internet isn’t.

This little blip on the Internet that I found on ufies.org hit’s it right on the head. I remember a friend of mine who teaches at a local collage telling me that one of his students came to him to ask to change her term papers topic. He asked why? She told him that she couldn’t find anything on the Internet about it. He promptly took her over to the window pointed to the big building across the way and told her “that’s the library, the library’s your friend use it.”

Now I use the same line but for Google. But I know that not all is to be found on the Internet and that you have to use the library once in awhile.

Cube Clean up and New Carpet

As many of you know I moved into the super cube back in March. Well now I have to clean it out and get ready to move all the furniture. You see the office is getting painted on Sat and Sunday so I have to get the area cleaned up so the movers can move the desks and cabinets away from the wall.

Man you never know how much stuff you have till you have to box it up and store it some where. I also get to be here at 6am both days to let the painters in then come back on Sunday night to reconnect everyone who has an office computers. I guess having a regular cube has it’s advantages. Then in about 4 to 6 weeks we get to go through this all again because we are also getting new carpeting.

I will snag the digital camera and get some before and after photos of the cube today.

No DSL for William

Got a call from DCA.net this morning informing me that Verizon was really not providing DSL to my house and all I could get was IDSL. IDSL is an ISDN line provisioned as DSL service. And you get a whopping 144k/144k both ways only. We had IDSL at work when I first started and all we had were problems with it plus the speed sucks. So that means I am going to keep cable and my server off site which doesn’t make me very happy.

So to take my frustrations out I am going to speed up the office project and hope to get the dry walling done by Wed. and painting on Sat. Flooring done before the picnic.

It’s a plan I can try to hit right on the head.

DSL coming to my house

Well I talked my wife into dropping the cable modem and getting DSL for the house. I was able to get 1.5M/384K through DCA.net. They offer a no frills down and dirty DSL connection witch is all I am looking for. I know yesterday I was pushing Speakeasy and I still am, but all they were able to offer me is SDSL 384/384 for $119.00. I couldn’t even think of how I was going to talk Carolyn into that.

The reason I am dropping cable for DSL is 1.) the speed increase. I think more people in the area have gotten cable modems so things a slowing down when I need them most. 2.) I want to bring this server home. It is in need of some major upgrades and I just don’t have the time to do them when I am around the machine.

3 day weekend starting this afternoon I can’t wait just going to work on the office space and cook some good food and watch the fireworks tomorrow and then a baseball game and more fireworks on Sat.

So have a good weekend…

Just a reminder Iambie’s dad goes in for surgery tomorrow so send warm and fuzzy thoughts and prayers his way through your day tomorrow.

I can get it, I can get it….

Wow another cool reason to recommend Speakeasy.net…NetShare. But the cool thing is I could can get DSL at my house now. Now if I could only talk my wife into it. It would make things faster Internet wise and I could bring this server home instead of having it at the colo I use..

Well time for some research.