I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The weekend is going by fairly well here. We had a wonderful little family get together on Thursday. It was certainly good seeing the bro, visiting from Chitown. My mom cooked a whole turkey–the past few thanksgivings has been just a gigantic turkey breast, but this time it was a whole bird. It was quite yummy; it was so juicy that it didn’t even need any gravy–though, I’m not much of a gravy dude, anyway.

Today was really cool, too. Ruthie had a Black Friday sojourn up to Opry Mills. I remained home and held down the fort…and shopped on Amazon instead 😉 hehe. She got in at about 5:30ish this morning. I mean, just…wow. lol. I did experience a smidge of Black Friday later today, though, when we went to MovieStop and checked out their sale. It wasn’t too awful, though, and we did get a few cool DVDs/Blu-rays. w00t.

Tomorrow is a 360 LAN. w00 h00! We haven’t had one of those in a while–since July, I think. Too long! We’ve all been busy here and there with something, I suppose. Should be a h00t.

I may be looking for punishment, but I’m attempting to install OS X onto my laptop. I’m using an iDeneb mix that supposedly works fairly frickin’ well on most computers. I think that it might even work on my eeePC, but I’m certainly not going to try that at this point–I want to have at least ONE working compy at all times. lol. Besides that, I don’t know that OS X would work all that well on that particular hardware combination, certainly not in comparison to Windows 7–which almost seems to be made for it.

I just got a new server this week, and I got it up and going in fairly short order. Something funky went on after I tweaked selinux; TTY errors which made me do a rescue of it. When I got it back up, though, it was all good and it has been running quite spiffily since. It’s a LAMP server where I also store files and media. I may make it an HTPC at some point, though certainly not until I can get a tv capture card for it. It’s amazing how quiet it runs; I can’t even tell it’s there, whereas the old server was getting to be like a jet engine.

I had a very awesome idea for a BSG story. I might kick it around and possibly write it; it has literally been ages since I wrote anything in terms of stories…end of high school, really, I suppose. We’ll see if I can get the willpower going to write it 🙂 I think it’s an intriguing idea, but I don’t know if I can/will go anywhere with it.

Anyhoo, iDeneb is about finished cooking…time to go geek out a bit more on this Friday eve 🙂

Well, I think we are most assuredly in the heat of summer now. It has been in the middle-to-high 90s all week and will be again this coming week. The lowest it’ll be during the day is 93 on Wednesday. Yup. Time to sequester myself indoors for the next number of months. lol.

I played some Call of Duty: World at War yesterday. I got up to a 2nd Lt, finally. I progress very slowly when it comes to rank mainly because I don’t play too terribly much outside of LANs, unless my bro is on or something. Beyond that, I’m usually busying myself with WoW-ing or Spore-ing on the game front.

We had a yard sale yesterday. It didn’t go as well as the first, mainly because most of the stuff in this one consisted of leftovers from the other. But, it was still a profitable day. I put an old end table in it, but it didn’t sell–cheap, plastic 70s-type furniture that my folks actually had when I was a wee lad. It’ll probably go off to a consignment shop, along with a couple of other items.

It looks like things are all set for nearly everything in August, particularly given what we made in this yard sale.

I got new wheels this past week. I went to get my oil changed and they informed me that my wheels were “bent”. I’m sure it’s from some obscenely large pothole, like one that used to be outside Ruthie’s apartment (they’ve filled it in since, go figure). Anyhoo, my Ion will be fancied up with some alloy wheels sometime this week.

Outside of that, things have been fairly uneventful. Although, Happy Father’s Day to all of the pops out there!

Wow, it’s been muggy around these parts. It’s to the point where if you walk out to the mailbox, you’ll be completely drenched in condensation and sweat when you return to the door. Icky. But, it actually feels a lil good for a few moments after being in AC all day.

Ruthie’s down at the Cape for work. Lucky ducky. She gets to chill at the beach after she’s done, a lil bit in Orlando perhaps, and to top it all off she gets to see the shuttle launch on Saturday. She has our vid cam with her, so I totally can’t wait to see some footage 😀

Wedding plans are going along quite smoothly. I think nearly everything is taken care of, at this point. Only roughly a month and a half away! Invitations have gone out, I do believe. I have a couple lying around, if anyone wants an invite.

I replaced my MacBook Pro with a nice lil HP job I got off of w00t. I made a profit, at least compared to what I sold the MBP and bought the new one for. That’ll probably go in our lil wedding fund 🙂 Anyway, the big thing about this new lappy is a superior vid card. Also, it has two drive bays. I’m considering putting a 30GB SSD in there as a system drive. We’ll see 😀 I put Windows 7 on this puppy. It’s a very nice advancement for Windows, I think.

I’ve found some relatives on Facebook–I knew it was good for something besides status updates 😀 It was a pretty cool way of getting back in touch.

I’m babysitting the pugs this weekend. They’re a pleasure to look after; they don’t do much but lie around…unless they’re hungry, of course 😀

Anyhoo, I guess that’s about all for the past month. I’ll try to get better about posting again. Facebook has the appeal of lil one-liner updates, but there’s nothing like typing out a novel every once in a while 🙂

You’d have to have gone to Bob Jones and have at least hung out in Mrs. Thompson’s classroom to really understand this, but…

The Meat Ship

So, I’ve been a pretty busy lil bee of-late. Last weekend, we had our first wedding shower. It was with all of our local friends and family. This coming weekend, we’re having one in Louisville with Ruthie’s family. It should be a hoot. Today’s my Friday in honor of this shindig. w00t!

I’ve seen Star Trek two more times, once at Monaco again and then another time at the Space & Rocket Center. It was in Omnimax, so it was very underwhelming. The size was certainly there, but it was like watching the movie through a fish bowl. I got moderately nauseated…not enough to toss my cookies, but it got pretty touch-and-go there for a while.

This weekend Terminator Salvation comes out. Pretty decent summer for movies, me thinks.

Last weekend, Ruthie and I met up with the Pierces at the Tennessee Renaissance Festival. I’ll post some pics when I have some time. It was pretty cool, though it did rain. We got to see jousting and human chess before that, though, and wandered around a little bit when the rain settled for a while.

I’ve installed Windows Mobile 6.5 on my phone. It’s pretty frickin’ tight. I’m not using a stylus at all for the phone anymore. It still doesn’t quite have the polish of the iPhone interface, but it’s still pretty awesome. Windows Mobile 7 promises even more slickness, though that’s over a year away…I’ll probably be ready for a new phone by then, anyway 😉

WM 6.5 Screenshots for the Geeks Out There…

…did I just see that?

Twilight is far funnier and more entertaining as a Riff Trax

I knew pigs sucked. That is all.

Happy Easter to everyone!!

So, the end of BSG was pretty fraking awesome. We watched all 2 hours of Daybreak, Part 2 on Friday. The end of the series was very poetic, and the way they tied up all of the characters’ situations was really quite spectacular.

The End