I'm really looking forward to this weekend. We don't have any big plans. I'm just looking to enjoy time away from work :)

( It's kinda long winded so... )

The repair to our DirecTV that is. At least I hope it's almost done. The fried piece of equipment has been replaced and they're checking for signal strength now. Uh oh, it looks like the dish may be fried as well. Crap. I think this may be a bit longer than I'd hoped... 

But I think they hate me too. Last Saturday we tried to spend the day at the Kansas City Irish Fest http://kcirishfest.com/. It rained. From the moment we got there and off and on throughout the day. At one point Crown Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Center,_Kansas_City security walked through the crowd and suggested that we take cover as ( Read more... )

Well...maybe not an era but it is the end of my vacation. I've been off work for the past 11 days. This is one of the best vacations I've ever had. Becki was off with me for the first 9 days. We had 9 days of blissful inactivity ( Read more... )

So much for the new computer. The DVD drive won't work. Been through the tech support twice and even they think I should just get a refund. Called the manufacturer/refurbisher and they are gonna e-mail us a UPS label so the shipping won't cost us anything. The bummer is that it will take about a week before we see the money back in our account.
Oh ( Read more... )

We had a bit of rain last night. Not much, just enough to get the yard wet. Unfortunately, whatever wind we had with it was enough to blow a section of my fence over. Well...not completely over but enough that one side of my gate is leaning in about 2 feet at the top. Hopefully I can get a quick, temporary repair done until I can get at least this ( Read more... )

Our old dinosaur computer finally gave up the ghost. I was in the midst of filling out a resume when it just stopped working followed by a very faint "pop" and a couple of wisps of smoke out of the back. You know that commercial where a house was robbed of everything but the computer? That would've been us. It was big, old & slow.
Thankfully we don ( Read more... )

I've been on vacation for the past few days. In fact, we're leaving for Texas in the morning. As usual money and time are too tight to do anything other than drive straight to the beach house and back after the weekend. That means no stoppage to see friends/family along the way. Becki's aunt may actually cause us bodily harm if she finds out we ( Read more... )

I copied this from uawildcatgirl . Seriously, if you're on LJ you know you're just looking for something to kill time with anyway. Why not fill out this harmless thingy?

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) ( Read more... )

Hey Everyone,
I had a GREAT weekend. I went to a reunion of an organization I used to belong to back in the late 80's & early 90's called Crusade. The short definition is that we were an non-denominational Christian organization that existed to support the local Christian Heavy Metal bands that had sprung up around the Kansas City area in 1989.
We ( Read more... )