Monday, December 31, 2007

The last monorail ride at Midtown Plaza



The girls had a chance to ride the Monorail at Midtown plaza last week on December 24th. The Monorail was shut down immediately after that and it looks like it was the last time they will have it at Midtown Plaza as we know it.

Maybe the next iteration of that area will have something similar in honor of this landmark holiday treat, or maybe it will just be a memory of another time for those of us who had the chance to ride it.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

A Festival for the rest of us!


Festivus greetings to you and yours!

I look forward to airing my grievances with all of you. I've been keeping a list all year!

I can't wait till the Feats of Strength! I'm gonna get good and liquored up for that... now where did I put my aluminum pole? Click here to get yours!

Here's a Wiki link to everything you ever wanted to know about Festivus!

Don't forget to give to the Human Fund - "Money for People"!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

I just don't get it...


I'm sitting at home trying to do some work and finally when I finish, I just want to shut down my Windows XP PC and close up for the night. Sounds simple enough right? Wrong!!! I have a brand spankin new Windows XP SP2 Compaq 2510p laptop with 2 gigs of Ram - plenty of horsepower to handle anything I can dish out, right? Wrong again! It seems that my timesheets and simple web applications were too much too handle for the poor thing and when it came time to close it's eyes for the night and go to sleep, it wasn't having any of it!

I have been using Windows and Macintosh since the early 90's and for the life of me, I still can't figure out why Windows remains so successful. I just don't understand why people put up with it. If this were any other appliance in your home, you'd be back to the manufacturer in a heartbeat wanting your money back in an instant. I understand that computers are much more complicated, but TV's, DVR's and Cell phones and the myriad of other technology we deal with is becoming just as complicated without the same perils. Cars are pretty complicated and if you went to turn it off and it decided not to, you wouldn't stand for it!

Sigh...

OK, I am going to go calm down now... this is quickly becoming my "why Mac is better than Windows blog". Not my initial intention.

Monday, November 12, 2007

iCal support on my iPod Touch - Finally!


OK, for those of you who don't know this about me, I am a super Apple Computer geek and I pretty much do and buy whatever it is that Steve Jobs tells me to do (and buy). It's worked out pretty well so far and I feel that I have the coolest, most creative, easiest to use and certainly most reliable Computer on the the block. As my iPod is an extension of my computer with all my electronic media on it, I of course had to get the latest version of the iPod called the "iPod Touch". Up to this point, it was merely the coolest iPod ever created with all of my music, pictures, movies, TV shows and podcasts all on one super elegant device. Oh, and did I mention full web browsing via Wi-Fi? It also has this new "Multi-touch" technology that lets you use two fingers (called the "pinch" technique) to zoom in and move your pictures around on screen, which may not sound all that cool, but when you see it in action it really is a one-of-a-kind feature at this point.

OK, ok... you get my point. My iPod is cool. The only problem with it to this point is that it did not have the ability for you to add iCal (Calendar) events on the device itself. You had to use the Mac to add the event and then plug the iPod in to transfer any calendar events over. This was very disappointing and for a moment, I actually considered not getting one of these. Well, I'm thrilled to report that as of today's new firmware update, I can now add iCal items on my iPod, which means that in additional to being the greatest iPod ever created (not counting the iPhone), it is also the coolest PDA on the planet!

And he lived happily ever after.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Okaaaaayyyyy, I'm not even sure what to make of this one:



This is what I saw in the parking lot of one of my customers today. I'm not going to say which customer it was, but I now fear for my safety and the safety of the public in general if nuts like these are responsible for the safety and administration of our public utilities!

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween!!!




Well, the girls had a good time Trick or Treating tonight and Sam made it to about 10 houses before she was ready to call it a night. As you can see from Alex's haul, she made it to a few more! I can just imagine the 1am wakeup from the kids with stomach aches. I can't wait...

Happy Halloween!


I'm sure there will be more pictures from Halloween, but I thought I'd start things off with this good ole' fashioned pumpkin gutting... yuck!

Saturday, October 13, 2007

We survived the sleepover, just barely


Well, Alex had her 9 school chums over last night for games, a movie and a sleepover. All but one slept over and I only wish it were the other way around. Most of them were good when bed time came, but three of them (including the birthday girl) wouldn't go to sleep. So at 1am, Dad did what he hoped he would not have to do. I separated the three "night owls" from the rest of the group and each other, then I sat there like a prison guard and waited for them to fall asleep.

Of course, they were all up at 7 ish for donuts. I think next year will be something other than a sleepover party!

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Trying to survive Birthday-thon '07


One more party to go for Alex and her 8 friends and then we can put the Levy girl's Birthdays to bed for 2007. A party for one side of the family, a party for the other side of the family and of course a party for all of Alex's school friends... whew!

I think I am going to need to celebrate the end of all the celebrations.