From the horse's mouth...

Gee this sounded good 6 years ago... woops.


(Video is from October 2002)

There is something to be said about the old adage regarding idle hands...

Bill, comeon... Is this why you retired??

My daughter is two digits old...

So tonight is the big slumber party and she wanted a movie theater theme. We have tickets (as you can see), a concessions stand with candy, popcorn, hot dogs, nachos (we even found some cardboard hotdog containers and plastic nachos containers) and of course a 52" LCD with three blu ray titles to choose from. my personal goal is to merely survive the evening and the 11 girl invasion of my house.

The bathroom is upstairs and to the right...

The mind can exaggerate traumatic memories...

For instance... this is (I would swear) exactly what I saw as I neared the fallen tree.

This is pretty much the worst ride ever!

Oh like anyone could actually know that Napoleon...

What you might ask was so bad about my bike ride home from work today??? Well let's start at the beginning shall we?

1. Accuweather.com sucks; said the rain would start after 7PM... started at 5PM right as I got going.

2. Hard rain stings (foreshadowing folks... wait for it)

3. I met unabashed cyclist at Swope Park (yes this is on my list of grievences... you'll see why later)

4. I say how about we take 79th... he says how about we take 67th... I agree to 67th.

5. Nearby lightning is scary when riding a bike

6. Wind is not fun either and vitually always blowing in your face rather than at your back.

7. Now we have time for an anecdote... The rain has slackened and the wind has also slackened. It looks like a decent ride home now. Unabashed is about 50 feet ahead of me and I see him pass an old rotten fallen tree stump sticking just maybe a foot into the road... He yells loudly "TREEE!!" Well it is hard to make out because there is still a bit of wind and he is not very close... I continue as he pedals hard ahead of me and calls back again even louder and with a note of frustration "TREEEEE!!" Well yeah duh... I see the tree it is kind of hard to miss. It is just an old tree stump that must have gotten knocked over by the wind. I can easily swerve and avoid it. I am getting closer to the tree and suddenly see a swarm of flies... ah I get it now. He was warning me about road kill. Wait these are some freaking big.... BEEEEEES!!! BEES EVERYWHERE!!! THEY'RE RIPPING MY FLESH OFF!!! YOUR FIREARMS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!

So yeah we both rode through a swarm of very pissed off honey bees... and yeah we both got stung (I took one to the eye brow, a couple on my arm and one on my hand... unabashed got hit at least 5 times.) It was pretty much the worst ride ever. Oh and then it started raining again... hard... the rest of the painful way home.

I hope you all had a wonderful night... I am firkin going to bed!

And now... its ALL good.

So today is a day of great rejoicing, albeit somewhat harried and busy rejoicing as we engage in the various clean up tasks/issues that always arise at the culmination of a very large project. The Data Center is in place and for the most part everything is working as it should. Here are some memories of my Saturday (apologies for the poor image quality on some of these... still learning how to use the camera and its many settings):

Servers awaiting their new APC home.


The servers IN their new APC home (the racks are APC)


My attempt to be photographically artistic


The Network Operations Manager holds great power


Have you ever seen such beautiful cable management in your life????


Room for growth


You look upon the core... a Cisco 4500 series Catalyst switch... plus all of our other communications equipment here in our wiring rack.


Pretty aren't they??


And now my work is done...