Family

Vacation Day 3, Wednesday

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Today Mike and I went and played a round of golf. I have never played and he didn’t want to go by himself. I thought it would be fun so I went. The course was empty since we went late in the day. We had to travel half way across the island for this course. The course turned out to have sucked (according to mike). We had a bad golf card so we had to go get help between the 10th & 11th greens. Mike was pissed that we didnt get anything for free out of that. I had a good time. It was my first golf outing and I did ok. I cant drive for my life but once on the fareway I did a little worse than ok. I probibly will try it again sometime. This course was expencive. It was cheap compaired to the course by the house we rented, but it was still $100 a round. With clubs the one by our house was like $160 and that was a special deal. Golf in barbados is not for the cheap!

My only problem with golf is that I can’t see the green’s from most tee’s and I also have trouble finding the ball. Thanks mike was my lookout.

Unfortunatly I was fighting a head ache the whole game. Thankfully the meds worked for the game, but I started crashing on the ride home. I made it to the house just in time to lie down and sleep from like 7pm to the next morning. I ended up taking 2 Bextra throughout the day. At least this migrane didn’t stop me from having a good day of golf.

Lazy Saturday’s

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I am being lazy today. I need to get a mothers day gift for my mom, but that is all I have on my agenda today. I slept late, and I am just hanging out now. My idea of laying low is very geeky. I am installing VMware 4 workstation on my desktop computer. I want to get red hat 9 on it so I can use windows xp and red hat on the same machine. If it works it will be awesome. Right now it is installing red hat.

My mom instructed me that she wants some pocket book or something. I will give her money and she can go get it for herself. That way I don’t have to get the wrong thing. I was also instructed to get flowers. I just love the surprise involved in this day.

Since Gus fixed my linux box I now have a choice. Should I leave my site on Red Hat or move it back to Windows? As of right now I have a copy on both. My friend jayson is letting me use his box to host my site, and I still have a copy on my Red Hat server. I am thinking I am going to leave the blog on red hat and have the rest of the site on windows. That way I don’t have to mess with taking the front page extensions out of the site. I was trying to deal with that for a few weeks and so far have gotten nowhere. I just don’t have the time. For now I will leave everything in both places. Unfortunately I don’t have the photo site up at all during this transition. it is 800+ megs and I don’t want to deal with it right now.

I have been following the apple music store since it was announced last week. I have a mac. I like it allot. I also find I use iTunes over winamp 99% of the time nowadays. I also went out a few months ago and got an ipod. That also kicks ass. So I am in a position to use this new music service. 99 cents is not bad for a song. I am still unsure if it is worth it. I saw an entire album I want to maybe buy and see if the service is any good. Limewire and the gnutella clients, and kaza are tempting. I am on the fence right now. The file format is supposed to be better, but I still like MP3’s. I was not sold on Microsoft’s windows media format, and now I am skeptical of this new AAC stuff. What is weird is that Microsoft comes across as more evil big company like, and Apple is the underdog hip company. In fact they are probably both just as evil. Right now for work I of course an clearly a Microsoft guy, but for home I am a apple guy. All this rambling boils down to eventually will buy stuff on this music service. If anything I want to know if I am missing out on something really good, or just saving my money.

I was actually going to

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I was actually going to start writing an offline journal again on march 3rd. that was the day my niece was born. This was my sisters first child, and so I am an uncle for the first time. Like I stated in an earlier post I used to write stuff like this and just save them to a file.

So I have a niece. Morgan Lilly! She was born in my opinion on the coolest birth day I can think of. March 3, 2003 or 03-03-03. or how my dad puts it 3-3-3. Either way cool! She is also a picies, and so am I so that is also cool. Morgan was late and my sister was going to induce on 3/4, so it was kind of funny that she was born when she did. I was quite pissed that I could not be at the hospital, but work obligations keep me. It was not like I was having a kid! I was also getting over a cold so I really didnít want to be too close to a new born. I finally got to see her that Thursday. I was forced to wear a mask and look all stupid in all the pictures. She is so small. I cant wait till she gets a bit older to take her places.

I have bad, not so good, or non-existent memories of my uncles. One we never saw. He was always nice, but we never saw him or my aunt. The other was just an moron, so I plan on being there for the little Morgan. I still don’t know what to get from the dam baby registry. I got a big stuffed animal, but I was not allowed to get a life size one so I got something that comes up to my waste. What do you get for a new born that they wont grow out of or forget about later anyway? I think the cool gifts come at age 3-7.

Well last week I was able to go back and hold her without a mask. It is cool just sitting there with her sleeping on your shoulder. All is right with the universe then! I also had to show my sister and brother in law how to use their digital camera and setup a web site. Well I got the camera setup, but no time to show them the website.

I missed seeing the baby today (3-22-03). I just got up when I got a call from my dad telling me that she and my sister were over at there house. I need to get over there to give them the stuffed animal.

Wow, it is after 11pm. I didn’t know it was so late. I am off to bed. My hands are hurting from all this typing and mouse clicking. More tomorrow.