no surprise

I haven't had even one chance to lift or "box" since my last post.

We did take Bouffer to the Vet. You would think he had roomed with Bryan Bird for the last year...he gained almost 10 pounds, bringing his weight to a whopping 114 pounds!

Things remain the same around here. Lots of work, little play. This weekend I work 7am-noon, as we are all behind. It can be explained mathematically:

vacations(hiring freeze + retirements)^[new medicare prescription drug plan] = F!

schutze, smash!

I bought a hybrid power/speed bag today for the garage. I haven't felt that kind of a rush in a while. If I can keep it up, I'll be back to the old jock days of walking around feeling confident that I could "smash that guy's head in" at will.

Now if I could just lose my gut. F.

5 year license, and 36 years without a goodbye.

Well, Briana got her scores today, and (as expected) she passed her Praxis III observation with flying colors. Now she can convert to a 5 year professional license. And renewing that should be a breeze, since she completes her masters degree in August.

On my side, it continues to be a pretty slow news month. Somebody at work retired today, but she requested that her retirement not be announced until after she left. It was a little weird. Even the lady who sat across from her for 25 years wasn't told. All of a sudden, we got an office wide Windows NT message saying "[she] has retired effective May 10th. She will not be returning after her vacation that begins tomorrow. She requested that the news be withheld until after she left today." The whole office was like "is this a joke?".

I'm continuing to work on the new web-site for everybody's favorite coffee shop. I decided to use NOPCart, which is open-source java script. Non-secure, but he doesn't want to take orders anyway. It's coming along, but kind of tedious. However, it is free, and should work regardless of the hosting they end up choosing.

glad to be a DINK for another year...

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200660411008

thinly veiled, yet rather amusing

Last night's Dr. Who episode was a rather thinly veiled, yet rather amusing, poke at the type of hysteria that can cause humans to do the unthinkable.

After a space ship (loaded with pigs) crashes into Big Ben, the British Government declares a National Emergency. Of course, the Government in this case, has been body-snatched by some nasty aliens, out to make a quick buck.

Disguised as the Prime Minister of England, they announce that there are massive weapons in orbit, controlled by aliens and ready to destroy the Earth. Therefore, they send various diplomats (also body-snatched) to the United Nations, where they present "definitive proof" of the existence of these massive weapons of destruction, and ask for the password/code that will allow them to fire nuclear weapons at the orbiting/enemy aliens. Of course, as the Doctor figures out, there are in fact no weapons poised to strike, and no aliens in orbit. Rather, it was a ploy by the aliens to gain control of the nuclear systems and destroy the Earth (which would then be sold as radioactive fuel for low-class starships).

So, suspend your disbelief, realize that the aliens are campy on purpose, and enjoy the show!

please comment

So, I'm working on re-designing a web-site for a certain local business.

The owner would like a section of the web-site where you can view pictures of the staff, have links to other local businesses, post "events", and post "editorials" (still not 100% sure what is meant by that). He also wants to be able to announce new products, and have his staff log on to add the new products/descriptions (i.e., not have it relayed through a webmaster).

So as I was thinking of the navigational nightmare this would cause, an idea hit me: a blog.

So, the question that I pose to all of you out there is this: "Would you find it any less (or more) professional to have those types of things on a Blogger(TM) blog that is linked to from the business' site? Have any better ideas?"