Archive for December, 2009

Less than a month

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Less than a month until I am trapped   on a cruise ship with my in laws. Looking forward to it. Been playing a lot of Need For Speed Shift on XBOX Live. Really fun to play with 70 year old geezers from Iowa and 10 year old punks in England….at the same time. The voice [...]

I’m done with snow

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

It snows 3 inches in Dallas last week. Most of it melted. I was happy. Then Sunday night I was assigned to fly to Cleveland, Ohio….where it was snowing non-stop. It’s going to snow again in Dallas today. I’m done with it. Above is a view from my office. Taken at 36,000 feet coming in [...]

Making the world that much better

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I’ve been blogging since before I knew what blogging was. I bought this domain name back in 2001. It’s had several designs and formats. After about a year of resisting I finally switched to blogging software after using good old Frontpage and HTML for years. I have most of the old bogs. A few that [...]

Glad I don’t throw stuff away

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

The new receiver is installed. I didn’t think there would be a huge difference in sound….but more so in convenience. I was wrong. The sound is amazing. Even watching  just regular TV. Main reason is the sound is all now digital. Previously our sound was digital from the device (Uverse, Xbox Blueray) to the TV [...]

Christmas by Amazon

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Cruise is booked. I was going to book through Interliner.com. I emailed all the details and was ready to book…then I saw the contract. They initially quoted a “booking” fee of $10 per person. On the contract they had $25 per cabin. There are 7 people going in 3 cabins. The difference was just $5….but [...]