Sep 29 2008
I turned 23 this past week…. I know, I’m old!! I had a great birthday with my husband and friends. We went to Bible study, and our hosts gave me a card, balloon and German chocolate cake. We shared the cake, and it was wonderful!
My family sent several packages of birthday gifts. First, they sent [...]
Sep 14 2008
My motorcycle is still broken. When I finally got around to doing the oil change I cracked the oil pan. I was tightening the drain plug and heard a pop and felt the wrench slip. However, the bolt was still really tight, so I thought maybe it would be fine. However, the next morning I [...]
Sep 14 2008
We had a game night this past Friday with several of Matt’s co-workers. The evening began with extreme bowling at the AMF lanes. Matt and I are pretty rusty, but we managed to do ok I had a couple of spares, and Matt even managed a strike! One of the guys bowled three strikes [...]
Sep 10 2008
Well, not to consume, but to make. We have an espresso machine at my office and although I have been interested in learning how to use it for a while, I never made time to ask someone to show me the ropes. Plus, the drip coffee machine we have makes freshly brewed Starbucks coffee, [...]
Sep 09 2008
After running a command in Unix, the status of the command (usually a simply success or failure, 0/1) can be found by echoing the $? environment variable.
Of course, you can do this in Windows too, but I guess no one really does because it is hard to find searching the Internet. So, to determine an [...]
Sep 02 2008
Not the spice, but the movie. Ashley and I went to see this movie Friday night as a part of the “Summer Cult Series” that a theater near my office is running. I read a little bit about it online beforehand, and figured I would have to use a touch of trickery to get Ashley [...]