Wow, I’m having a bit too much fun with this new weather station, which is fairly pathetic considering there is really nothing going on but clear skies and cool temperatures.
However, getting this thing setup has been a blast. All that is left to do is mount the wind and rain gauge sensors, which I should be able to do on Wednesday sometime.
As I wrote in my Happy New Years post a few days ago, Jina’s sister Jennifir Taylor, husband Chuck and their son Jackson came into town to hang with us for a few days. Jina’s very close to her sister and her family overall, and we’ve taken countless vacations together over the years. Along with her parents we’ve been to Lake Tahoe, the Bahamas, Florida, Boston, New York, Cape Cod, Oklahoma and who knows where else.
Wow, I didn’t even know this was possibly until my friend offhandedly mentioned it to me today, which really bugged me because he knows this stuff and fails to tell me most of the time until it’s already old news.
There is an application out there called PlayOn, which you can download here and read more about it. The purpose of PlayOn is to provide a means for your various electronic devices to browse and display video content from all kinds of places, like Hulu.com, ESPN.com, CBS and more. Heck, even Netflix!
My weather addiction has taken a new turn. No, I’m not going to do the Tornado Videos Tour that I’ve been talking about recently (at least, not this year), but I did buy a little something that will take my weather hobby to the next level.
For awhile I’ve had a little tiny home weather station, which is basically just a remote temperature gauge that shows the temp outside as well as the one inside. Boring, but it was cool. I also had a manual rain gauge outside where I track the rainfall all year by logging the amount of precipitation we get anytime it rains.
As the bliss from vacation drifts away and the reality of a work week sets in…so does a nice, fat case of the MUNdays.
If you don’t know what that means, or where it came from…watch Office Space just once and you’ll get it. But it’s fairly obvious what it means. Mondays suck. Especially after a long break. And I haven’t worked since December 23rd.
This Monday is already sucking.
It’s not just that I’m kind of tired, or missing my wife and little girl…it’s more the fact that now I get to face the situations at work where I’m going to have to travel more. I’ve made them keep me off that stuff until now, but it’s January, it’s 2009 and I gotta start playing ball again. It’s a major part of my job to be at client locations to help test our systems, so travel is involved. I’ve been lucky lately to have jobs close to Phoenix, so it’s nothing but a drive to get there.
Now they are switching out a co-worker and putting me on a job that is southwest of Tucson. A two-hour drive, meaning overnight stays are going to be needed from time to time.
I’ve never minded traveling before, but now that I have a little girl, it sucks to even think about it. Leaving Jina at home to take care of her 24/7 kills me.
It’s part of my job, I have to do it, but I’m not going to like it.
I know I’m a few days late, but what the hey. Happy New Year! I’d have gotten around to saying that earlier but we had family in town since the 31st of December, and I haven’t had any time to do much other than play around on Facebook.
Jina’s sister Jennifir, her husband Chuck and their son Jackson (3 years old) came out to stay with us through Sunday morning, and we had a spectacular time. In fact, you can see all the photos from the last week already uploaded right here on my blog!
Because my fans demand it, I’m letting you DirecTV subscribers know that channel 213 has been added to the HD lineup. And if you are a baseball fan, then you can rejoice quietly to yourself.
It’s basically the NFL Network for Major League Baseball. MLB Network went live on January 1st and so far, it looks pretty good. I’m a baseball fan, but not enough of one to really watch the channel that much, yet some of you may get into it.
Enjoy!
I love t-shirts, not just to wear, but as symbols of stuff you like, the person you are. I take my t-shirts very seriously and rarely buy one just to “buy it.” It’s got to have meaning.
This great t-shirt site, 80’sTees.com, has some very cool stuff and I’ll probably be revisiting it shortly. But I did find a shirt while I was there and some of you older guys who loved the cartoon will recognize it.
It’s the end of 2008 and it was a fun year for me in many ways, not the least of which was the arrival of Lyla. But I’ve written plenty of that (and will write plenty more)…it’s time to focus on my other hobby: pop culture.
Because of my involvement with Pop Critics in early 2008, I was deep into the world of TV, movies and comics. Yet towards the end of the year, my partner and I decided to call it quits because of all the work it took to make it awesome. And that ended up causing my movie watching to take a nose-dive in the second half of 2008.
Okay, so this guy from TVGuide.com has all the friggin’ luck in the world and has seen the first two episodes of the newest season of Lost. It premieres on January 21st, which still seems like an excruciatingly long wait.
He posted a review, with some seriously awesome little tidbit that have me more excited than ever to see the first two episodes.
Here are some highlights from his review, and if you’d rather not see any spoilers, then skip the rest of this post.
Just a reminder, since most of your DVRs would probably have season passes for Scrubs on NBC, it’s time to change those to ABC! It premieres on January 6th and here is a little promo for it.
From the previews I’ve seen, it looks like it will be as funny as ever.
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