Check It Out

It hasn't been that long since I posted.....A few random thoughts:

• The Red Sox are back in first place already...life is good.
• I think Liverpool will be able to hang on to fourth.
• My wife and family are awesome (that's really the top one, but this is a stream of consciousness type of thing).
• The weather is getting warmer - again, life is good.
• "A flute with no holes is not a flute, and a doughnut with no holes is a danish" - Ty Webb

That's my waste of time for the day - lata.

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Okay - I'm no good at this....

I'm going to stop counting how long it is between posts...let's face it, it's embarassing.  We just completed our spring break vacation.  This year we went for a "split vacation" of sorts.  It was referred to as the "Me, we she time" vacation.  It started out as "me time", moved on to "we time", and capped off with "she time"....allow me to explain.  

On Saturday, Julie and the kids went out to the Outlaws for the week.  I had the house to myself for a couple of days (doesn't happen often).  I managed to get in a (very little) golf, play a soccer game, go to an open house (of my Cousin's - we are so not moving), and (most amazingly of all) fix the kitchen sink (seriously).  Thus concluded the "me time".

Jules and I then met in Asheville (the Outlaws watched the kids) for the "we time".  We (see how I did that) spent two and half great days in the Mountains, and had a great time just being together.  I think we should do this every week (see how that works out).  One of the highlights was visiting Chimney Rock which was very cool (and interesting for the guy that ain't a huge fan of heights).  Check it out here if interested: Chimney Rock Park.

For the end of the week I was out with the kids at the Outlaws which was fun as well (more work of course).

All in all - all around great week for all.  So now, back at it. 

I'll try and post sooner next time (begin holding breath here).

It's been a week (multiplied by...)

General News
Hello to all! Is has been a bit longer than a week this time since I last posted. In fact, I believe the word "stale" was used recently. So, in a nut shell, here is the last month (or so)....

In reading the last post, I noticed that I had just started puppy training with the dog. Well, today she "graduated" (believe it or not, with a graduation cap and everything). She can now do basic obedience type of stuff (sit/down/stay/etc) with relative frequency. This is actually a good thing, as she is probably pushing about 90+ pounds, and her head (while standing) is above my waist (not that I'm that tall - but we're talking about a dog here). So, the ability for us to enforce a little control is probably not a bad thing.

The holidays were good. We had a lot of family come to the house over the course of the holidays, which was very nice (both because it was nice to see everyone, and because we didn't have to pack up and go anywhere). As it was the first Christmas in the house, Julie did a very nice job of decorating (both within and without). As some of you may know, one of the prerequisites for us when we were looking for a new house was that there was a nice family-centric area for the tree - and it did work out great. The only casualty I can think of from the tree was the ornament that has managed to survive Julie's entire life-span, lasted about seven minutes once the dog so the tree.

So, it is now January and all is back to normal. School/work/everyday life has begun again. Last week, the wife and I joined a local (quite inexpensive) gym. For all who know me (those would be the ones giggling uncontrollably right now), you know that carving out time to go work-out has never been one of my strong suits - but it is now costing me money, so my plan is to try and make it work. Wish us luck.

Tech stuff
As many of you know, I am a hopeless geek. For some reason 10+ years of doing software development 10 hours a day hasn't stopped me from really enjoying technology. So, my new thing lately is trying different linux distros. This little hobby emerged after we bought a mac, and I started to enjoy using OS X. However, once Julie kind of took over the mac, I realized that I wanted to play too. I have a really old desktop that I was still using with XP (and darned if it wasn't getting awfully slow). So, after realizing that I was too cheap to buy a new mac (those things aren't cheap) I realized that linux was pretty cool. I've thus far messed with the (k)(x)ubuntu family, and was running PCLinuxOS (my current favorite thus far I think). I usually seem to gravitate towards the gnome desktop, but am trying out the new KDE for awhile - see if it grows on me. If anyone actually reads this thing (and happens to mess with Linux) any advice as to what you use, and why you like/dislike it is quite welcome.

Also, I believe I will soon be in the market for a new iPod (my 4g has blowuptuated for the third time in 8 months - sad mac face and all). I think I am between the classic (80gb) and the 8gb nano. I think I'm on the side of more space (and less $$) instead of the opposite (the ipod touch). Or...do I forgo the iPod replacement, and get the AppleTV? Again - any thoughts on this would be cool as well.

Ah well...this is what a months worth of my not writing gets you...more to come as events warrant.

Later all.

It's been a week....

...since I last posted, so I figured now is as good a time as any.  This past week was a pretty good one.  I got to go to a "family movie night" with my daughter at her school this week (she's a first-grader - going on 18).  They showed The Polar Express, and the makeshift theater (cafeteria) was pretty packed.  I'll be honest, I was expecting mayhem (of the loud kind) with lots of kids running around, yelling, etc. - but it was really quite fun.  The little one had quite a lot of fun as well, that's most likely because Daddy furnished the popcorn, Skittles, and Sprite....that seemed to go pretty well.

The other thing I started this week was obeidience training for the mutt.  That's quite something....turns out, while she's cute - she's not terribly bright, and has the attention span of the average hummingbird.  She was quite calm (even laid on the floor for half of the class) - but try to do the "Look at me" command - yeah, not so much.

Outside of all of that, same old same old - looking forward to the holidays.

Talk to y'all later.

Out of the gate....

Well, started a blog. Not at all sure what I am going to blog about - so my apologies for the sheer boredom you, the reader, is feeling as you're currently reading this. Let me at least explain the name. For any of you heading over to this site from turners5, I am the Dad of said family. Hence, Turners5_dotOne. To be fair and honest hear, Jules came up with the name (and for any of you who read the Turners5 blog - you know she's the creative one anyway).

So, nothing more to report at the moment, but I'll add here (more meaningless stuff I'm sure) from time to time. Some of the topics that may end up here:

• Dad talk - being a Dad who gets along with his small kids largely due to the fact that we share the same maturity level.
• Tech talk - I spend a ludicris amount of time in front of computers (otherwise they'd stop paying me).
• Sports talk - what guy doesn't talks sports to some degree (even if they know nothing about it).
• Random talk - most likely the majority of what'll end up here.

Thanks for reading this one anyway (and for those who don't come back simply b/c of this post - can't say that I'd blame you). Until next time....