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A New Day!

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This Morning

I had a dog sleep on me all night. It was pretty cool. I received many slobbery kisses. Still doesn’t hold a candle to my wife’s. I best get to bed on time tonight! I woke well rested but didn’t really want to get moving today.

I’ve made hordes of progress on my friend’s computer. Still fighting a virtual memory problem and one hijacker. Will return the box tonight. Could stand another couple of days but that’s always the case with any computer repair.

Stress level way down.

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Blogging for a cause

My wife will blog every half hour for 24 hours straight on July 24 to help raise money for The Autism Society of America. You can help by sponsoring her. Please find her name in the list of sponsors and select the bullet for her. Thank you!

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In Summary

Received a check from a client today bringing the account slightly positive..not to last long.

Fretted a lot.

Worked on recovering friend’s pc with hopes of returning it to her tomorrow.

Contacted another recruiter only to have her email bounce.

Did I say I fretted a lot?

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This Morning

Heart attack pending. Doggone I feel like my spring has been way over wound!

The expected deposit has not come through so the monies promised to CFXHosting and ATT cannot be delivered.

My list of todos is growing to a disproportionally ridiculous level and just cannot be done.

I applied at Home Depot and even they did not call me back. Am I diseased?

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Last hour was not as planned

So an hour has passed and instead of focusing on the jobs section of the news paper I have had coffee, breakfast, blogged for Tommy, got Amy’s milk, Amy told me that she had to poop so we ran to the bathroom and dropped her diaper only to realize that she had already had a wet messy one, cleaned mess, took overflowing diaper pail to trash can, walked dog, policed yard, and took the kitchen garbage to the can.

Now I am back downstairs am trying to get to that jobs section.

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This Morning

Stomach in knots. Deposit from Paypal still has not come through. Bank charging $32/day while the account remains negative (keep the poor man down!). Fingers crossed that checks will arrive in mail today. The next hour will be devoted to the jobs section of the news paper. At some point I need to spend 1+ hours on administrative duties updating the contact manager and quickbooks.

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Tech Doctor

This is a good definition of what should be in the tech doctor’s black bag when on call. Mine is a bit different but similar.


The Super Utils CD is usually a roll-your-own project these days. I just use it in its 4 or more CDs in CD wallet form:

1. ebcdpro cd.

2. latest Norton Systemworks CD (older versions optional)

3. Partition Magic 8.0 CD

4. Windows 2000 Resource Kit

Optional:

5. latest Knoppix CD (comes in handy now and then).

6. Windows 98 Resource Kit (depwalkr.exe, especially)– mostly for recovery of consumer computers.

7. Ghost, if the Systemworks CD is not an Enterprise or Pro version.

8. Drive Image if Ghost not handy.

PM on floppy, DI on floppy, Rescue Floppy set from SystemWorks are also handy tools if used VERY CAREFULLY (especially the systemworks rescue set).

John Danielson.

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The Day

Dropped Tommy off at church for his 2nd week in this class..probably his last. Cathy and I then went shopping for the remaining needs for Sarah and met the crew at Ryan’s for a buffet lunch. We learned that Tommy was asked to not return to the church class unless he was accompanied by an adult. Amy started to cry at lunch we Cathy and I showed up because she thought we had come to take her away from the grandparents.

Cathy, Sarah and I parted from the rest of the crew and took her to girl scout camp. We were going to get there way too early so we drove up to an old grist mill and spent some time at the museum. On the way there we were all startled by anvil shoot at the Museum of Appalachia. Yes, they use black power to launch a blacksmith’s anvil into the air. Wile E. Coyote commentates.

This method of celebration has its roots deep in our country’s history. It involves placing one anvil upside down and filling the cavity with a fine grade of black powder. A second anvil is placed on top. The powder is ignited, and the resulting explosion thrusts the 125-pound anvil over 100 feet skyward. The explosion literally shakes the earth, and the sound reportedly can be heard as far away as 15 miles.

This is what happens when good ol’ boys get bored (and perhaps liquored up).

While at the grist mill I had a phone conversation about Tommy’s lack of seriousness at the D&D games and how it could lead to the demise. Tommy loses group activities at school, church, therapy and now nearly with friends. What can be done?!

We return, the loooong way accidentally ending up in Oak Ridge, to the inlaws pool to recover Amy, Noah and Tommy. Noah ends up staying to help work tomorrow..haha. The kids love their grandparents so much! I cannot say how great it is to have such generational family involvement.

Amy falls asleep in the car as we pull out of the driveway. Tommy, Cathy and I decide to snack and lounge tonight, albeit I am working on computer repairs and activities between lounging.