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Bud Light Port Paradise 2009

November 8th, 2009

First thing I have to say about this trip is AWESOME!!! I have never been on a cruise before and was a little worried about getting seasick. I really only felt the ship moving the first day, but then the party started and it never phased me again, of course I was still taking the Bonine everyday. Well I would say at least 90% of the time we were on the boat we were partying, I mean, how could we help it with all the free Bud Light, Bud Light Lime, Budweiser.

On Saturday we were in Nassau where we went to the Atlantis hotel and hit up the water park. The price of this was insanely crazy, but we didn’t pay those prices. The lazy river is more of a ride than a lazy river. There are rapids an wave pool type area, conveyer belts, it was just crazy.

Sunday we were on Royal Caribbean’s private island Coco Cay, where Dave Matthews Band performed. I wasn’t overly impressed with his performance, but I really stopped paying attention after the first few songs, which was all his newer stuff that I didn’t know.

Well Check out the pics of the trip below.

Categories: Friends, Halloween, Holidays, Outdoors, Pictures, Travel, Vacation

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Blocking personal email at work

October 2nd, 2009

I just found out that we started blocking access to Gmail at work. The reason for it being blocked was that too many people were on it during the day using a good deal of bandwidth. However, Gmail is the only email service that is blocked. Is this fair to Gmail users at work? Is it their fault that Gmail rocks and is a very popular service? If one email service is blocked, shouldn’t they all be blocked?

I am not in favor of the way this was handled. I would have come up with either throttling the bandwidth to all outside email site, or block them all. I don’t think its fair to allow some people access to their personal emails and not others. It’s kind of like saying people with red vehicles cannot park in our parking lot, but all other vehicles are allowed to.

I strongly feel that this need to be revisited.

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**************UPDATE 10/16/09**************

We are now blocking Hotmail as well. We are getting a lot of emails asking us to unblock it. It’s kinda fun to see all the reasons why they need it unblocked. I still think that blocking personal email is not right as long as a user isn’t abusing it.

Categories: Computers

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When to start cussing?

September 9th, 2009

A 6 year old and a 4 year old are upstairs in their bedroom. The 6 year old asks,

“You know what? I think it’s about time we started cussing.”

The 4 year old nods his head in approval. The 6 year old continues,

“When we go downstairs for breakfast, I’m gonna say something with hell and you say something with ass.”

The 4 year old agrees with enthusiasm. When the mother walks into the kitchen and asks the 6 year old what he wants for breakfast, he replies,

“Aw, hell, Mom, I guess I’ll have some Cheerios.

WHACK! He flies out of his chair, tumbles across the kitchen floor, gets up, and runs upstairs crying his eyes out, with his mother in hot pursuit, slapping his rear with ev ery step. His mom locks him in his room and shouts,

“You can stay there until I let you out!”

She then comes back downstairs, looks at the 4 year old and asks with a stern voice,

“And what do YOU want for breakfast, young man?”
“I don’t know,” he blubbers, “but you can bet your fat ass it won’t be Cheerios!”

I was sent this from Bob McDonald on 9/9/2009. Thanks Bob for the laugh.

Categories: Comedy, Family, Jokes

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Colorado Trip 2009

August 20th, 2009

I went to Colorado this past weekend, to the Loveland / Ft. Collins area. I had a blast. It was good to see all my buddies again and meet some new people. We went day hiking and I can’t believe how beautiful it is up there. It makes me want to seriously move there. I think that if I didn’t have a condo, and I could easily find a job out there I would do it this year. They have something like 330 days of sun a year, but the temperature never gets to hot, and it doesn’t get as cold as Chicago does. And for those of you who know me well know that I can’t stand the cold when there is no snow on the ground. Below is a link to the pictures I took while hiking.

I also want to say another CONGRATULATIONS to Jen & Pete on getting married. It was a beautiful ceremony. I will post pictures of that soon, so check back here. Pete asked the night before the wedding if I would photograph it for them. By no means am I a professional, but I said yes, so everyone will have to bare with my armature skills. I have already put the pictures into a DVD slideshow and am just waiting on them to get back from their honeymoon to give me the music from the wedding so I can sync with the slideshows.

If anyone would like a copy of the DVD please leave a comment asking for one and I’ll contact you.