The Wayward Paladin

Wow, I have been slack,.....umm,....I'll post something soon. For now,.... http://verydemotivational.com

I like Christmas,...............thats all I really have for now. I'm just too busy to post something.

 

Here,....go look at this.

http://thatwillbuffout.com/

I came across this website the other day while googling - http://namshik.com/google-voice-t-mobile-fav5-free-calls/ It intrigued me and since I had an old vonage RTP300 lying around I decided to take a whack at it. It wasn't overly difficult but I did have to consult the blogs to find solutions to common issues other people where having. Hacking the vonage router to allow other services was probably the hardest part. I'm actually pretty impressed with the result though. The clarity is pretty good, there is a slight delay but what can you expect for free?

I just came back to work after being out for 3 weeks. My entire family has been sick. Flu, Sinus Infection, Cold and Stomach bug,...all churning in my house as if Pandora herself had shacked up on my sofa. Kelly gets a cold then Charlie gets a sinus infection with fever, then Rose gets the flu, Charlie gets over the sinus infection, Kelly gets stomach virus while she has the cold, Rosie gets over Flu but Charlie gets flu, Rosie gets stomach virus with fever, Rosie gets over stomach virus but trey gets stomach virus,.....sigh. My house smells like a lysol bomb exploded in it. I've finally gotten caught up enough at work to be able to actually post something.

Did you notice that I'm not listed in here anywhere? Thats because I was simultaneously working from home while taking care of everyone. My boss decided he didn't want me around if I was going to be the next Typhoid Mary. you might think thats not so bad and working from home is better than working from work,...yea well,...not in my line of work. It's like making me work on IT issues with a calculator and a pen knife. I'm so happy to see a semblance of normality.

I've been out of town alot lately. I'm back now. I'll try to post something by the end of the week. My Wife and I are going to Charleston for the weekend. It's our 15th wedding anniversary. Maybe i'll send some pictures.

People who know me, know that I really don't care much for spiders. We found this little girl walking across low grass at Latta Plantation in Charlotte, NC. She's about 3 inches from abdomen to pedipalps.

Here are a few of my favorite Stress Relief sites. Check them out.

http://failblog.org/

from here you can also get to:

http://engrishfunny.com/

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

and

http://roflrazzi.com/

there are others as well, but these are my favorites.

Its not hard to see that the world is, to quote Merle Haggard, "Rolling down hill like a snowball headed for Hell". It's gotten me to wondering on the cyclic nature of life. I do believe in God and I have no doubts of the reality of him sending his son to Earth in the form of man to die for our salvation. But there are so many things that are left to wonder. Is it possible that all the myths and legends that abound regarding ancient civilizations and their technologies that have come and gone are actually true? Does man continually build himself to some lofty height only to be brought to his knees by his own greed and want for power? Does the world turn down this path now? Are we hastening to a day of destruction that our world has seen occur many times over? Atlantis, Minoa, Babylon, Egypt, Atecs, Inca, Maya,......The industrialized world has only existed for about 200 years and the modern age itself only 500. Are the apocalyptic worlds of Waterworld and The Postman not far from the truth of what will become of our own world? (I'de like to point out that I'm referring to the books and not the two horrible movies starring Kevin Costner.)

I've slept for an entire week now. I feel better. My thoughts are still quite incoherent so I'm going to ramble on a bit,.....We have a dog now. His name is buddy. He's a rottweiler/sharpei. What an odd combination for a dog. My boys finished the invisible fencing this weekend. I'm supposed to have the doggy door installed by the end of July. We'll see,....I was on the home stretch of finishing the bathrrom floors at my church. All I had left to do was put the trim in for the men's bathroom. The AC unit on the otherside of the wall from the bathroom clogged up saturday and flooded the bathroom, now the new flooring I just put down has to be replaced. I found a wheel bug crawling on me on sunday. It's a rather large bug that can give a nasty bite. I screamed like a little girl for a second or two,.....I think thats about all I have for the moment.

So we finally finished the ultra, super, mega project that has been looming over my head at work. We're tiding up the loose ends but the 16 hour days have stopped. I'm really tired. It will prolly take a week to try to get my sleep cycle back to "normal". I say that because I have sleep issues. Docs have tried giving me meds for it but the result is about the same, either I don't sleep or I sleep without REM and I wake up feeling about the same either way. The odd thing is that every week or so I will have this one perfect night where I sleep all the way through and I wake feeling wonderful. Oh well, I'll just try to do what Bon Jovi says and "Sleep when I'm dead". I'll post something more interesting when I've rested a little more.

I've been running windows 7 RC since it was released and I'm pretty impressed. I've been using server 2008 for several months now and I'm probably at least equally impressed. I ran across this today while surfing slashdot.

http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2009/05/22/dual-boot-from-vhd-using-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

ooooohhh,...new project! Starting this one tonight.

Memorial day is for honoring those that gave their life for our country. It's also a time to honor the sacrifices of those that survived by the grace of God.

My father served for 21 years. He retired as a Master Seargent. He fought in Vietnam. He served as a mechanic. He served as a counter terrorist operative. He served as a Fire Direction Control Officer for an 8in Howitzer Unit. We thank God that he survived his military career. And we thank him for giving the younger part of his life in the service of his country.

After reading this article,

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/nm.buried.boy/index.html

and trying very earnestly to understand what could possibly motivate anyone to choose this as a solution over simply giving the child up for adoption, I feel more cemented into my belief that there is a very special place in the deepest level of Hell for this person.

 

“ Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them."

Deuteronomy 32:35

I started a stress reducing exercise with my wife the other day. And no thats not it,......get your mind in the right place before proceeding,........done?........ok, so in this game, you are supposed to tell the other person to imagine that they are the richest person in existence. They don't have a care in the world. They have no debt, They can buy anything that they could ever possibly want and taxes are low. They have the perfect house and the perfect car. Now tell the other person to close their eyes, clear their mind and then ask them, "What would you like to do today?"

It's actually quite amazing at how stress relieving this is. You should give it a try. 

 

It's been almost a year since I actually started this site with the idea of posting a running theme of ideas regarding what it would be like for an arthurian knight to suddenly be brought to our time. It's been almost a year since I actually had any time to spend on it. Until the time seems to come back from whatever vacation it has decided to wonder off on I'm going to use it more for just a blogging of my wonderfully droll and mundane life. So,....here goes.

Some jerk almost ran me off the road today. Here's the setup. I'm travelling down the interstate in the right lane. There is an exit about 1/4 of a mile ahead. There is another car about 2 car lengths ahead of me and nothing behind me for 200 yards. In the lane to my left is a car that is easily doing 100 and at some point in his morning commute he suddenly decided it would be better for him to try to squeeze into the space between me and the car in front of me while barely missing my bumper than to just decelerate and come in behind me. Now, I'm not even getting off at this exit. So it's not like the guy is going to get his lap back by doing this. He's endangered me, he's endangered himself,.....This happens almost every morning, from different drivers,......It should be legal to carry car to car tazers. Thats all I have to say about that.