End of Silence

With the amount of work that I’ve got going on right now, it looks like it might be a while before I resurrect my PC. I did download some hard drive diagnostic tools from the manufacturer today at work. While you’re waiting for me to regain access to our photo library and the pictures from [...]

I finally got to try out the new cable modem around 9:00 last night after getting the kids to bed. I hooked it up and tried Mary’s email first. Everything worked fine and she didn’t lose any of her mail, so apparently the Time Warner rep screwup was minor. I might also add that they [...]

In addition to the crap that RoadRunner is putting me through today, I’ve been battling my hosting provider, MCHost for the past couple of weeks over billing issues. They’ve double-charged me for hosting for January-April. They don’t post a phone number, so I have to go through their web-based support tickets. I must say that [...]

We were in Dallas for Memorial Day weekend. We returned to find out cable modem out. Tech support decided it was either my modem or the line. The modem is the original one from at least 4 years ago and apparently no longer supported. I brought that one in and traded it for a new [...]

Two links from BoingBoing:

Vonnegut rocks.
Happy fun photos from NYC.
Anthony Swofford is going to be at BookPeople tomorrow. While his book (in the Legere block to the right over there), is interesting, I don’t think it’s interesting enough to motivate me to go see him. On the other hand, Eric Schlosser is going to be there [...]

Texas House Democrats have decided to fight back against the Tom DeLay backed proposal to redistrict Austin and screw us out of a united voice in the US House. For once, the Statesman is providing adequate coverage. I’d like to commend my own rep, Eddie Rodriguez, and the other Austin reps for taking a stand [...]

Happy anniversary to The Wife and I and a belated Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms out there. My mother was in town for the weekend. We went to Hoover’s for Mother’s Day brunch yesterday afternoon. The Wife and I both had the smoked pork tenderloin with raspberry chipotle sauce. We all shared [...]

I’ve dumped my links page in favor of the phpNuke links module. I’m in the process of vaildating and moving them over now. Since everything is being added at once, it’s all being marked as “New”. I’ll probably go in and tweak that once I’ve got them all moved over. I probably won’t finish until [...]

I’ve written in the past about the Parking Walrus. I hadn’t seen him in a while and thought that perhaps the daycare director had struck some kind of deal where he gets all of the smelt that he wants and we get to use his beloved parking spaces for 5 minutes while we drop off [...]

I emailed Lloyd Doggett’s office to see if they had any more information on the redistricting. This is the response I got (note that there’s another meeting tomorrow morning for those who may not have work).
Thank you for your recent message regarding redistricting. As you may be aware, under the latest Republican redistricting plan, [...]