Reality Me

I forgot to meantion that on the banner above clicking each flavor takes you to a different page of the Adagio site.

I had a very productive and fun day of wireless networking challenges. I connected an office wirelessly using two DLink 7100APs. One acted as the access point and the other as a repeater. Much fun!

Woke at 5:30. Spent the day at the computer. Had an afternoon break to help Sarah deliver Girl Scout cookies. Skipped dinner. Spent 5 hours removing some nasty spyware and viruses from a computer. Returned home to grab 20 minutes of sleep then return to programming on the computer after brewing my final pot of coffee. The bean is dead! Java no more! Have an 8 hour day planned for tomorrow to help a company move their office and make sure all their computers are working.

I had a 5 hour computer repair tonight. I would have liked to have laid hands on the computer for another 3-5 hours. People really can’t afford to pay what repairing these machines are worth because if I billed an appropriate hourly rate they’d be better off buying a new machine. Of course, the data is what is actually valuable to people and businesses. I think I’m going to publish the method I use for cleaning the machines.

As for now, I’m exhausted but really need to work through the night.

After a half a month of procrastination (and hopes that my PageRank™ would jump from 4 to 5) I have finally placed my links to Adagio Tea in hopes of getting to try some of their tea for free. Be sure to place a link for free tea on the page of your site with the highest pagerank. See Spy Journal Blog Tips for an explanation of PageRank™. Remember that if you put the reference in a post it could potentially scroll off to an archive with a pagerank of 0.

Be sure to read about the experiences of Cathy, Catawampus, and Zero Boss.

Two proposals out! Yahoo.

Did we, the United States, plan the terrorist attack in 1976 while George Bush Sr was running the CIA? Has GW Bush been planning for almost 30 years to steal away our freedoms in the name of making us safe? Timothy McNiven says “Our own U.S. Army devised a plan commissioned by Congress to bring down the WTC using commercial airliners and box cutters as weapons.” He apparently has documents proving his claims.

I have not Snoped this story yet. Remember, this is the Internet. Anyone can make up the "truth". Confirm your sources. I am on a deadline so I can’t confirm this story right now.

True or not the story should make us think daily on our civil liberties and ask ourselves “are we having our freedoms stolen away?” and “have we gained anything other than a false sense of security by turning our society into a George Orwellian reality?”

How far off I sat and wondered
Started whistling a tune from 1962

Then the older dog jumped on the bed and tried to climb on top of me. She really doesn’t like storms. The puppy seemed to take it well. This was midnight. I’d had a good 2 hours sleep but could not convince myself to get up for a much needed all nighter. Instead I fell into a deep, deep sleep and woke at 5am to rise at 5:30. At least I’m consistently pre 6am now.

Ok. I didn’t clear my plate. I made a good effort but I’ve still got some distance to cover.

I’ve hit that time of the evening where I’m so tired my body just aches. I should go for a run around the block.

I’ve actually been pounding keys on a project most of the day without too much distraction. What a pleasure to get work done. Unfortunately, I don’t have a deliverable to show for it which is frustrating. I need to take a break and switch gears for a bit.

Dinner routine is coming fast and Tommy has STAR tonight so we all hoof it out to Lenior City. Cool!

The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) announced that STAR has been awarded a $2500 Quality of Life grant. STAR will use the funds as a part of the Rider Patron program, which allows us to continue providing cost efficient
therapeutic services to our riders through the donations of individuals,
civic groups, businesses, and foundations such as the CRPF. STAR riders pay
only a portion of the actual cost of the lessons, therefore there are many
costs associated with lessons that must be covered by other sources.

Study: Teens Who Pledge Virginity Try To Bend The Rules “Poll finds they’re more likely to have tried anal and/or oral sex.” Man! Being a teen sounds a lot more fun than it was in my day!

Teens who take abstinence pledges are almost as likely to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases as kids who don’t, according to a new study that found pledgers tend to substitute other risky behavior for regular intercourse. … Researchers found that kids believe engaging in oral and anal sex gets around the rules of abstinence programs by technically preserving their virginity.

What do the naive adults have to say?

Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, called the study “bogus.” “Kids who pledge abstinence are taught that any word that has ‘sex’ in it is considered sexual activity”

And the message to those teenagers on the dating scene is ‘if you want some action, try an abstainer!’

Just 2 percent of kids who never took a pledge said they had engaged in oral or anal sex but not intercourse, compared with 13 percent of “consistent pledgers.”

Of course the message to parents is “talk to your kids!”

We have heat! Let the spaying begin!

Why is that marriages have to degrade to “us against him”?
Sterotypes revolving around marriage and the roles in marriage obviously exist for very valid reasons.