Archive for December, 2003
J.U.L.I.E.
Posted by david | Filed under Home
Last week I noticed some flags & spray painted markers on the median between the sidewalk and street (and some on our back yard) near the house.
I was very curious as to what they were for … but I constantly forgot to actually call the village about it.
Well, I finally called today … Hoffman Estates Public Works didn’t know anything about it (they were very nice, btw, something I’ve been becoming more and more appreciative of … I try to thank the person who’s been helpful whenever possible). They suggested I call J.U.L.I.E. about it.
I called the 800 number and there was no way to inquire about it … but voice reponse system told me to call another number (in a/c 815).
So I called the number and talked to another nice person who looked up the information (had to go back a few weeks to find it)
It turns out that ComEd is fixing a “Primary Cable Fault”.
Ok, issue resolved. I noticed they actually started digging and saw the ComEd truck out there today.
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This just aint my week…
Posted by david | Filed under Computers
… for computers!
New drive arrived from Dell today … Airborne was supposed to get an “Adult Signature” before delivering it.
I guess the driver is an adult … as he must have been the one who signed for it. The drive was shoved between the storm and front door.
Oh well, good thing for Airborne I’m an honest person. I could have just as easily pocked the drive and claimed I didn’t receive it.
The drive installed easy enough, and passed diagnostics … but that’s when things got very interesting…
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Parties, Food, & Laptops
Posted by david | Filed under General
Ok, everyone’s gone back home and the breakfast was a success!
As before, we bought way more food than we needed. Funny thing though … some of the same stuff we had left over last time, we have left over this time.
Ginny has these ideas for dishes that we don’t have time for and/or nobody is really interested in. Oh well.
On another note, according to Airborne, my new hard drive should be here tomorrow by noon.
I’m gonna go take a nap now.
Happy Holidays!
Posted by david | Filed under General
Well, it’s christmas morning.
My folks came over tonight … they spent the evening with my brother Mitch and his wife Gloria (Ginny and I were supposed to go too, but there was far too much to do here).
We’re having the family over for xmas breakfast … not that we actually celebrate xmas … well, parts of us do. Ginny and Gloria officially celebarete xmas. Mitch & I don’t. It’s confusing.
We gave my folks a framed print of last years holiday card … because the original 8×10 I orderef for them from Shutterfly was so lousy. I wanted to give them a proper picture.
They really liked it.
Crashing hard drives and routing failures
Posted by david | Filed under Computers
What a day it was today …
Around 6:30 this morning I THOUGHT I heard the phone ringing … but it wasn’t ringing upstairs, so I figured it was on our 2nd line (which happens to be a Vonage Voice over IP line), so I knew it was probably a wrong number (only Steve knows the VoIP number anyway).
Well, woke up to get my coffee and noticed that we had a message on the answering machine … I listened to it and it was indeed Steve calling to tell me that he my system was totally inaccessable.
I hadn’t done anything to the Covad DSL service I figured something was wrong with the Dell server.
Went downstairs and didn’t see anything wrong with the server … but I did notice my Dell laptop was reporting that it couldn’t find a hard drive.
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(sigh) Had to rebuild the blog :(
Posted by david | Filed under Blogs
Bloody database got corrupted in the blog the other day!
Unforunately, there is no repair tool for the blog database (Berkeley database, if you must know).
I’ve switched it to use MySQL … at least that I can probably go in and repair it if something gets screwed up.
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Seasons and Return of the King
Posted by david | Filed under Fun
Went to see Return of the King today … I have just one word to say about that … WOW.
Yes, it was long … I knew that beforehand … but in some ways it wasn’t long enough. I understand they had to cut almost an hour of footage to get it to the 3 1/2 hours they released. I can’t wait for the extended version DVD to come out.
It was a very fitting end to a wonderful story.
Obviously Ginny liked it too. 
Now maybe I’ll actually read the book
The only annoying thing about the movie was the fact that some people sitting near us talked insesently. It didn’t bother me directly, but they were closer to Ginny … and she had to shush them a few times.
Prior to the movie we went to Seasons of Long Grove for their Dickensian Dinner.
That was fun … the food was good and the singers were wonderful. Although now I have “O Come, All Ye Faithful” running through my head. Oh well, as mind viruses go, I’ve had worse.
Oops, sorry, I was wrong …
Posted by david | Filed under Fun
… the mind virus I had wasn’t “O Come, All Ye Faithful” it actually was “What child is this”.
The singers at Seassons of Long Grove were singing it often, plus it was played at Ginny’s church winter concert.
Dammit … I lost the recipie!
Posted by david | Filed under General
I had this really great recipie for Crock Pot beef stew … and I lost it!
Well, I think I’ve found it again … not where I expected to though … about.com?
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Ok, we’ll see if anything comes of this
Posted by david | Filed under General
I’m not sure I have the discipline to actually maintain this things … but we’ll give it a shot and see what happens. Don’t be surprised if this blog goes poof all of a sudden.