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A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa… November 15, 2004 7:29 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA New Day!
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This Morning
“So little to do, so much time. Strike that. Reverse it.”
Noah this morning asked for his own blog. I’ll have to think long and hard on that one. I suggested he write a paper journal first.
I’ve been asking myself lately “did I ever have will power?” The reason is I feel like I give into whimsy far too easily. I find myself sleeping when with the least effort I could get up. I play when I should work. I indulge when I should abstain. I do not feel like the pillar of strength that I once did. On the other hand when I was that pillar I was lonely and unfulfilled and now I am whole.
add a commentBored? November 14, 2004 10:49 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeWatch some people getting booked at the Anderson County Detention Center Their disclaimer:
DISCLAIMER
This is a real life transmission of the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department. Instances of violence or sexually inappropriate behavior by detainees during the booking process may occur. Viewer discretion is advised. This is a Jail, not a simulation. The persons in this transmission are either employees of the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department or arrestees.
Cam brought to my attention by Earthcam
add a commentScared the …. November 14, 2004 10:07 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeThe cat just scared the bejesus out of me! I’ve always said, “bejebus” in the very rare cases I’ve said it. Usually its something more akin to Carlin’s (amz) dictionary. But then I had the inkling to look “bejebus” up in dictionary.com and wikipedia.com I found nothing despite various phonetic deviances until I came across “bejesus.”
Now just what is a “bejesus“?
Dictionary.com suggests:
Used as an intensive: The bear scared the bejesus out of us.
Fortunately for those of us willing to ponder just “what comes out of us?!” there is a website devoted to the topic of “bejesuses” and that is the Bejesus Quarterly.
Share the Love – 1:10 November 14, 2004 7:34 pm
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Ambivalence November 14, 2004 6:38 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeWow! I’ve been drumstruck with a “productive ambivalence.” I’m getting something done but I could be getting more done and I need to go feed my family but I really just want to sit at the computer psuedo-multitasking.
add a commentCoincidences November 14, 2004 5:58 pm
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Last night I was having a conversation and a, ahem, “younger” person said, “Have you seen that movie ‘Dawn of the Dead‘? Did cha know its a remake!” At this point I had to rant on how a large percentage of “new” movies today are simply remakes such as “The Bourne Identity“. Here is the 1978 version of Dawn of the Dead and the 1988 Bourne Identity Mini-series.
So the conversation shifts to Shaun of the Dead. I’ve never seen this one. But people start to gather around and share in their mirth over this movie. Apparently Shaun of the Dead is side splitting funny.
So today, I’m using Blog Explosion for a moment and come across Jersey Shore posting on Shaun of the Dead! Tis a sign! So, having not seen it, I must recommend Shaun of the Dead to any zombie fan!
1 dike 10 fingers 11 holes November 14, 2004 2:03 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeOk. First the heat pump (if you don’t want to count the array of problems with the vehicles, the computers, couch, dental work and other things that predecessed the heat pump) and now the Garbage Disposal – In-Sink-Erator 444 (amz) (and yes, that’s the exact same one we have!) It’s been a good unit. And it has an “in-house 4 year warantee” which I guess I now get to figure what that means. The motor now just hums and yes I checked to make sure the blades were not jammed. It also looks like we have some leakage out the bottom now. I have to assume that a seal has broken or that a utensil dropped in the disposal punctured something. I don’t know. But this moves up pretty high on the priority list.
add a commentA New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa… November 14, 2004 9:40 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA New Day!
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This Morning
This morning it would be real easy to slip into panic mode. As such, I made a point to not have coffee today. I can’t say enough how much calmer I am on drastically reduced caffeine intake. I still have an overwhelming urge to do things today that I should not.
Today is about computing. Somehow cleaning, finances, blogging, home repair, vehicle maintenance and programming need to work their way in.
add a commentToday’s Technical Issue November 13, 2004 2:23 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life“String DLGASKDESTTS_MSG1 was not found in the string table.”
The solution is provide in a comment on Uninteresting.info by Gianluca Neri of http://www.gnueconomy.net:
Here’s what I’ve just found using Google Groups (God Bless Google):
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The “String DLGASKDESTTS_MSG1…” error message that you received may have been caused by other running applications when you launched the Install Wizard. I suggest that when you install,
close all other applications including any applications that are running in the background. If you have an anti-virus installed in your system, temporarily disable this while doing the installation.As an additional safeguard that will minimize the chance of having those error messages again, I also suggest you follow these instructions:
1. Please delete the Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Engine
folder
2. Clear out the Temp folder
3. Delete the following folders (IF they exist):
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{b8d35119-e9ce-4258-9813-9715dacdca0a}
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{a4d64993-5175-4534-8583-355f925644d4}
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{53437f29-e703-11d4-a51f-0010b541cdae}
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{94492602-f802-48fa-a5ab-ac13dc358475}
Note: Please make sure you can view hidden files and folders before
trying those steps
Uninteresting.info has this to say about his stats and this error.
add a commentLast night was Incredible! November 13, 2004 11:49 am
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Without giving anything away, I have to say that “The Incredibles” (trailers) was incredible!
There were many incredible aspects of this movie. It began with the previews. Your normal movie has that series of slide advertisements with the trivia mingled in, then there are hopefully several movie previews.
This show started off with what appeared to be a teaser more than a movie preview. Then there was an encouragement to turn off cell phones and use good manners. Then there was another teaser. We started to get the picture that an animated picture called “Bigs” (Bigfoot) is in the works. Then there was a movie preview for “National Treasure” (some production pictures) Then more appearances by the Bigs cast. Our comment, “they must have a lot of money.” Then we enjoyed a Pixar animated short (welcome back old time days of movies!) titled Boundin’ (See a sneak peek.). It slowly became evident that Bigs is actually a Regal production (I could be wrong) and likely to be a series of short films that they are going to show before the movies instead of advertisement! We had no traditional ads! There were two product refences. When we were told about concessions Coke was mentioned and when the reminder to silence cell phones came up Cingular was mentioned.
The movie was action packed, had a wonderful plot, great subtly, fantastic balance of adult and child humor, and exceptional animation. I highly recommend seeing “The Incredibles” and suggest Fandango. They were turning people away at the counter but because we Fandango’d we had tickets and a compliment from the person behind the counter.
(picture unrelated to the movie but er, .. incredible)
From the Mouths of Babes November 13, 2004 9:10 am
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Amy is drinking water this morning so I thought I would add another sign and teacher her the sign for "water".
She looks up at me and says matter of factly, “I don’t do that.” I told her that made me sad.
On the positive side, she signed “thank you” when I gave her some food.
add a commentAmy Sings the Alphabet at 2 and half November 13, 2004 8:53 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa… November 13, 2004 8:53 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA New Day!
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This Morning
Busy day ahead. My wife is in training all day long, Tommy is grounded (meaning everything is a fight), Sarah was throwing up at 4:30am (but “is feeling much better!”) – no fever, Noah is the quintessential 8 year old boy, the grandparents are occupied, we’ve got dog school at 2pm, and after my wife’s training I have a mock casino to deal craps. Sarah was to be my babysitter for dog school but now I think she is going to be confined to quarters which leaves me with Tommy and Noah to watch the 2 year old during dog school. Granted, they would be in a field within my eyesight the whole time but I don’t like that plan.
I’m setting my wife’s computer up as a development environment. That way I can be upstairs and still be productive. We need a couple of rockin’ laptops like fish need water!
add a commentIronies – Life so full of them! November 13, 2004 12:42 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeI know I haven’t written part II to “I had my day! No I get 30 more.” but this has to come first. Thursday night we hadour den meeting. The plan was to have the boys do a craft, an activity, and a discussion. The scheduled discussion was with a police officer and who shows up but none other than the rookie right out of cadet school that gave me the ticket for the midnight slow and go (which I fully stopped for) through an insignificant stop sign.
My initial desired responses to his presence were all evil, inappropriate and definitely a bad example for the kids with at least one potentially landing me in jail. So, I did the right thing and sucked it up and helped him figure out what to say to the kids then introduced him.
Related posts:
My Day in Court Part I
Paranoid
The Story
The day of the ticket
amped in a bad way today. November 12, 2004 12:06 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Lifeamped in a bad way today.
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