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Stop playing Solitaire at work

If you get caught playing games at work you might just find yourself seeing this dialog box: Shark Tank.

New kitchen faucet

Today we finally replaced the nasty old drippy faucet in the kitchen. The faucet we chose is made by Delta, it's called Bellini. We chose it because it was clean looking and was very tall which makes getting large pots under it easy and provides more room to wash those large pots too.

Here are some pictures of the process.

The original nasty faucet

Original is no more

Old gross plate covering holes

Cleaned sink ready for new parts!

New faucet spout

Spout, temp control, and sprayer

Finished off with a soap dispenser

Video of operation and no drips! YEAH

IT'S A ...

Well we found out and
IT'S A ...click here to find out.

We found out, but…

Well we have found out if we're having a boy or a girl, but we're not saying anything publically until our families all know. That means if you find out and we haven't said anything online yet => no Facebook comments unless they're private messages!!!!!

You won’t all have to wait that long, we’ll have something up by the end of the week; if you’re immediate family you should have something arriving in the mail Wed/Thurs from us with the news!!! teehee! ;)

Boy... or Girl?

Tomorrow morning we hope to find out if our baby is a boy or a girl. Once all our family knows we'll post the answer here, there, and everywhere! :) Stay tuned.

NEW HOUSE

This is my first post after moving into the new house. We've been here for a month now, I'll be posting hi-res versions of pictures/videos in the next few weeks. Check my facebook (if you have access) for what's currently visible.

Hail Storm - 8/17/08

Yesterday mom and I were in Albuquerque printing her boarding passes for her flight. On our way home I decided to take the scenic route through Isleta pueblo and then down Rt 47 in Los Lunas though Tome and into Belen that way. We made it to the Tome Art Gallery and it started to hail... Hard! I turned around and tried to get away from it, the hail was about an inch in diameter!!!
We ended up going home through Los Lunas on Rt 314. When we got into Belen there was hail piled on the roads/grass/roofs as if it were snow! There was a lot of water puddled up and several side streets had completely flooded. We stopped at the park near downtown Belen because all the trees there had been stripped of their leaves by the force of all the hail. The ground was littered with small branches mixed with large quarter-sized hail.
We got to where I needed to turn to get to my street and I couldn't because the runoff from the storm was washing over the end of the street so fast that had I tried my car would have been washed into the drainage ditch. We had to drive several streets up the road to higher ground before I could get into my neighborhood.
Here are some of the videos I took with my cell phone, my mom's digital camera has some more videos on it and once I get them I'll be adding them to this playlist on YouTube: Hail Storm Playlist.

Backwards Trike on I-91

Alison called me the other day to ask me if I had ever heard of a car called the T-Rex. I actually hadn't heard of it before, so I checked online and found that I had seen it before, just not called that. She took a picture of it as it zoomed by her on the highway, but I've included some cool video of this in action:

T-Rex Ride-along on YouTube

Currently Playing: Scott Krippayne - Deeper Still

Best Buy to sell boxed version of Linux

Best Buy stores are set to start selling a boxed version of Canonical's μBuntu Linux for $20. This is pretty cool as many people are not aware that it's free to download online... the main benefit of this is the visibility that the OS will receive by being out there for customers to see who wouldn't know it existed otherwise. Having this in a retail chain, especially one as large as Best Buy, will show people that there are serious alternatives to Microsoft's Windows or Mac OS. In addition to getting an installation CD, users will get 60 days of free phone support for installation and setup.

Best Buy stores to sell boxed version of Ubuntu Linux

I'm melting!

I can't believe how hot it is here again today. It was so nice having a thunderstorm roll through every afternoon/evening. It cooled things off nicely. It's back up to 100°F again right now and we still have about 2 hours of sunlight left before the sun sets for the day. My swamp cooler is broken so I'm stuck with the fans I've got. I might go to Walmart and just walk around for the A/C.

Currently Playing: PPK - ResuRection

Another wind scorpion in my house

Found another wind scorpion in my house last night! He was about as big as we've seen them around here. I've read that they can grow up to 5" across, but we've never found one over 1.5". They have beady little eyes, and ginormous shredding mouth-parts that most certainly would be painful if it bit you. They are non-venomous though.

Currently Playing: Three Days Grace - Never Too Late

Thunderstorm 6-29-2008

While driving back from a canceled softball game I saw a full double rainbow!

I also got some pictures of it (click each one for the full-size image):

It's harder to see the outer rainbow in the second picture, and it was much fainter than the inner one which was extremely bright.

Currently Playing: New Found Glory - The King Of Wishful Thinking

Heat wave!

According to my thermometer, this was the new high temperature reached today.

Currently Playing: Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Hotter still

Well I guess I spoke too soon

Currently Playing: Kanye West - Stronger

Hot, hot, hot

So the past week or so has been insanely hot. Yesterday it got up to 99.7°F, and Monday topped out at just over 101°F!!! It was all I could do to keep from melting... last night I had to move my two servers into the kitchen to try and keep them from overheating; I think that they were contributing to the heat in the living room... I did have 3 computers in there.

Don't believe me? Check this out:

Hopefully things will start to cool off, but I'm not holding my breath.

Currently Playing: Dashboard Confessional - Age Six Racer