Next year …
😡 Arrrrgh!
Archive of entries posted on May 2009
Hurricane prep
The 2009 hurricane season starts on Monday so we spent some time today re-stocking our hurricane closet. What, you don’t have a closet in your house dedicated to hurricane supplies? 😉 Well, you can’t be too prepared here on the Gulf coast. Should we ever need to evacuate all we need to do is throw …
Star Trekkin’, JJ Abrams style
We wrapped up work a bit early today (Memorial Day) so I decided to walk over to Times Square and catch the new Star Trek movie. I’m a fan of the original series and I have to say I was skeptical of what this “90210” version of Star Trek was going to be like. Well, …
The Statue of Libery and Ellis Island
The system upgrade was going well so the team decided to take today (Sunday) off and resume work on Monday (Memorial Day). That was a nice surprise because I got to spend the day with my wife and daughter in Manhattan. Since the ladies had already visited a lot of places in the city while …
Mmmmm … gnocchi!
Today I spent most of the day in the office here in Manhattan working on the fixed assets system upgrade. My wife and daughter came by (after flying into JFK that morning) to pick up the hotel key and then ran off to spend a day in the city. This evening, I met up with …
Never a good sign
It’s never a good sign to come back to your hotel and find the lobby swarming with firemen. That’s what I found tonight when I got back to my hotel here in Manhattan: three ladder trucks and the chief’s vehicle parked outside on the street and at least 15 to 20 of FDNY‘s finest in …
Heading to the Big Apple
Do they still call it that anymore? I’m sitting at Gate A12 at the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to New York’s JFK airport. I’m heading up for there to do an upgrade to the fixed assets system that I am responsible for at work. As is the usual for this type of …
My new Eee PC 900A and Windows 7
Last week I stumbled on a deal over at Woot!: a refurbished Asus EeePC 900A (1gb RAM, 4gb SSD) for $160. My addiction to shiny things had me clicking on the “Buy” button before I could stop myself. Considering my original 4G Surf cost twice that (albeit over a year ago) it was too good …
Cleveland tourism videos
I can post these and laugh because Cleveland is my hometown. Unless you’re from there, you’re not allowed to snicker at these! 😀 Though humorous on the surface, they are a sad commentary on the current state of the city … the Flats used to be a really cool place. I have fond memories of …
Windows 7 RC upgrade
This past weekend I decided to jump in and start using the Windows 7 RC full-time on my home desktop. Rather than do a (recommended) clean install, I wanted to try the upgrade from Vista Home Premium. To prepare, I made a full image of my PC with DriveImage XML earlier in the week (which …