Boys night out

Well, Misty needed to get some stuff done around the house and to date, I haven't taken the boys out just for a couple of hours by myself yet so I guess tonight was the night.

So, off the four of us went to dinner at Sonny's BBQ and then to feed the fish and ducks at a local shopping center. It was a great night out for us. Having twins brings all kinds of craziness. Having twins is not just twice the work of having one.

I guess I have just been leery of taking all three out be myself, but it had to be done :) It was easier than I thought so it may become a weekly event. At least according to Misty anyway :O 

 

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Yet another social network for me

Well, I have been playing with Facebook some lately. A friend of mine invited me a while back so I went ahead and signed up and added some friends. I have ran across some friends of mine and it's fun sometimes to see who I can run across out there. I am already on Linkedin and Myspace so we will see what Facebook has.

From what I can tell, you can't add java code to your profile so stuff like my Flickr badge and my Goodreads stuff won't work. I did find a Flickr replacement but it's not as good as the java badge.

Here are links to my profiles.

Facebook profile.

Linkedin profile

Myspace profile

Going home! Well, sorta of

It's been a long process but after a couple of years of pushing out resumes and over a dozen interviews, I am headed back to work in the city of Richmond. In fact, I will be working for the city. I start with the IT department of the City of Richmond on July 30.

It is sorta of a homecoming to me. I moved to Richmond in 1991 to go to school and didn't leave until 2005. I met my wife there and we lived there when our sons were born. We still have friends there and I still do some work for Eastern Kentucky University during football season.

We miss Richmond and we look to move back someday. Maybe sooner than later but we will have to wait and see. This is also will be a growing experience for me. I can use my current skill set real quick and be able to learn a lot more in the process. I will miss my current job but it was only a contractor position so the benefits were not the greatest. The people I work with are great but sometimes the needs of the family have to be met and this is a huge step in the right direction.  I can't wait.

I'm going home :)

 

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It's someone else's grief now

When I first moved out of the dorms at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ky and got my own place with my own phone number, the city was really starting to grow and I was surprised to hear that I would be one of the first in the city with the newest phone prefix. I won't go into detail on the prefix nor the number but let's just say that the last four numbers were familiar to a lot of people wanting other phone numbers.

I would get several hang ups on my answer machine when I was not at home and would get several "I'm sorry. I have the wrong number" when I was at home.

Well, I have since dropped land line phones and have moved so that number is no longer associated to me. After reading a column about a phone number, the writer talked about reverse phone numbers so I thought I would look up my old phone number and see if it has been reassigned and low and behold, it has. I thought about calling it and telling them I am sorry and I hope they are not getting to many wrong numbers. Oh well, not my problem anymore.

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Testing Ebible script

Mouse over on the verse


John 3:16

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It's five o'clock somewhere

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Went to Margaritaville last night for a date night. It was fun. The boys stayed with my parents last night in the room while we went out.

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Vacation update

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Ok, I got a little red during our first day on the beach. Oh well. I guess I just need to learn how to get some sun at home next time. But we are not planning a lot of time at the beach. I know weird, but the little guys can't handle to much and Gabe doesn't like it that much anyhow. Today was pretty much rain so we didn't get out to much. We took the boys to the aquarium which they loved until they started getting tired.

I don't have one good photo of the five of us yet so I will have to work on that tomorrow.

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Bad air compressors, family vacations and letting the cat ouf of the bag

Weird title huh. Well that describes the last 24 hours around here. We are getting ready to head out for a family vacation today and yesterday we find out that the air compressor in the van has died so we are going to rent a van to take and worry about fixing ours when we get back. It was a crazy day yesterday trying to find what we wanted to rent as we thought about getting something big enough that my parents could ride in also. We had one all ready to go but when I went to look at it, there was like no room for our stuff. So scratch that. Anyway, we are back to taking a total of three vehicles but are good to go.
This morning for breakfast, I needed to go get some milk so when I get back and we are eating, Zach says, "Daddy, I just finished your card and I colored in it" :) Misty just lowers her head and starts laughing. Just way to funny. Anyway, I am taking the laptop so I may post from our vacation. If not, Have a good week. :)

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Blogger removed from baseball game

Is this where the law can't keep up with advances in technology? A sports writer was ejected from a NCAA baseball game in Louisville for blogging about the game. Now the NCAA has laws in place to keep the rights of the game in check. For example during the NCAA basketball tournament, when games are in progress, no television studio is allowed to have a camera up and running inside the arena. Keep in mind in the baseball game instance that the game was held on state grounds. As the article here says, First Amendment anyone? You can read the New York Times article about it also.

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Churchmedia.net conference

The third annual Churchmedia.net conference is coming up in July, this time it's being held just out side of Washington DC. There will be classes from After Effect to Photoshop to Gimp Shop and how to start a media ministry in your church. There will also be some live video mixing and camera classes and for Churchmedia.net Pro members, you can watch the general sessions free online.

This year we are also adding a virtual version where you can watch the general sessions along with the breakout sessions online also. One general session in each time slot will be live and all others will be online shortly after the class is finished.

For more details and to sign up go here.

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