So, we made it. Seven years later, and we haven’t killed each other. :-D Last Friday was our seventh anniversary and it was the first time in a few years that we actually celebrated it — first time in years we actually went out and enjoyed ourselves. After everything that’s happened in the recent past, it was nice to go out, just the two of us, and have a nice, calm, relaxing night out.

This year Heidi said, “Let’s not get each other gifts… We’ll just spend the cash on a nice dinner…” Even though I know my wife means what she says, if you are a married man you know what fear that statement strikes… I ended up getting her seven roses and some wine, anyway. :) Just to be safe.

We decided to go to a restaurant that we’ve never been to before. As far as Tucson goes, it’s one of the “nicer” ones around. You have to wear your ballcap facing forwards. LOL It’s a relatively new Tucson spot called The Melting Pot. It’s a national chain, and if you’ve not tried this place out, you must! It was hands down awesome! That is of course, if you don’t mind paying twice the typical cost for your meal and cooking it yourself. Basically it’s a fondue place where they bring you the “raw materials” to your table and you cook/dip the foods yourself. You can start with a typical cheese fondue, then you have an entree where the pot is filled with boiling oil, and you cook your meats, or rabbit food if you are into that thing, in the oil. Then for dessert, they bring you choclate fondue and you can dip any of a number of things in it: marshmellows, pound cake, brownies, etc…

Even though this place was connected to a mall, it was awesome, nonetheless. Nice atmosphere, great staff (it was our server’s second day — great job Shane), and a nice private table. The table had a curtain you could draw after your meal was served. If we were any younger, that might have been dangerous!! hehehe The waiter said there were some interesting stories about these tables. ;)

We got to do all this, while Lola took care of the monster. Thanks Mom!!

So, anyway, there it is. :) Seven years with a wonderful lady! I’m very lucky that she’s still with me, and I can’t wait to celebrate our eighth.

As you can tell by the title of this article, we are now wireless in this house! It’s a damn shame that the only wireless device in this house is my work laptop, tho… Ugh…

Well, once we sell our land and get my motorcycle and Heidi gets her Mustang (or whatever she wants these days), THEN it will be time for new laptops! I can’t wait.

I started the wireless adventure by purchasing a really cheap (rebated) wireless router… I don’t need a router since I already have a wired router, but it came with a nic and was cheaper than getting a WAP and a NIC! Well, come to find later that it was cheap because the chipset it uses had this issue and that issue… Long story short, I never quite got it to work right… So, back to Worst Buy I went and forked over the dough for a WAP. Five minutes of setup found the house wireless! YAY!

In addition to becoming wireless, we’ve also inducted ourselves into the PVR age! Yep, we have a PVR now too!! YEEEE HAAAA. That means I can record BSG, Invader Zim, MotoGP, and other delights. :) All in all, a great day!! Yeee haaa!!!

HAPPY EASTER everyone!!!

So, Heidi and I were reflecting a bit about our trials and tribulations… Man, what a difference a year makes!!! When the babies were born they were no longer than a foot, and weighed only 2 lbs!! We thought Rhys was HUGE when we finally got him home last March, and now it seems like he was so very tiny on his first day home… Anyway, now that I got the image module fixed on the site, we can finally post some pics to compare what a difference a year makes! :-D Click on the Read More link for the pics!

Rhys’ first day home. Here he is in his little bed we had set up for him. There were so many accessories back then! The tubes, the thermometers, the monitors, etc…

Here he is a few days after we finally got him home. Sleeping with Heidi. Heidi has been the best mom in the world! She’s such a good mother, and I’d say she’s the biggest reason Rhys is doing so well.

Here he is now! This is one of Heidi’s favorite pics! Him and his crooked smile. :)

And finally here’s a pic with all of us. What a time it has been, and it only gets better…

Ok, so I’m sitting here checking my mail in this noisy ass computer room. It’s noisy since I can’t afford to buy a real case. My rack and my cases are so bad I’d have to work on them for a week straight just to get to loser status. Put together a grand imagination, a severe lack of patience, and a dremel… That should properly paint the picture that is my illustrious computer rack…

ANYWAY, I’m sitting here with Heidi and I whine to her that I wish we had music in the bedroom… Because well, music is one of the only things that can get the voices in my head on the same page so to speak. How’d we get here you ask? Well, because it so fucking noisy in this room… I wear headphones and listen to music most of the time, and I was just using this as a chance to whine to my wife about how I would sleep so much better if we could listen to music in the bedroom…

So, why don’t we purchase a stereo for back there? Well, here’s our dilemna. She CAN’T sleep with music on… And I have DIFFICULTY sleeping without it… It seems to bug her the most, so she wins out, and I get silence… I HATE SILENCE. :)

Her response to my whining was something along the lines of, “You are a freak! If you put a poll out there you’d find the vast majority of people can’t sleep with music either!”

So I did. :) Cast your vote and help me show Heidi that she’s wrong! :-D

Click here to vote or view results!

PS: She also added, after I told her that I WILL put up a poll, “And if the poll says that more people sleep with music, it’s because all your geeky friends are the one’s who voted!!” LMAO!! I love my wife. :)

In my daily surfs I stumbled onto a blog entry that conveys my frustration with the IE monster quite well. It inspired (read: guilted) me into doing my share. :) Even if you have no interest in the browser wars, or getting into the politics of OS/Brand affinity, as a computer user you owe it to yourself to check out the following sites:

Ok, I’ll step off my soapbox now. :)

So, as you may have noticed, we’re back after a bit of some downtime… Seems a hard drive cato-ed on the new server and RAID went tits up. Basically this means that all data on the server was lost. NOT a good thing… I had backups from about a month ago and have restored them for my site and all my clients…

You may have deduced, we’re back in business. House Trevethan is offering hosting again. This time we’ve got a better setup and are able to grow at the nice snail’s pace we like. :)

Also, on our new server we have up to date software at our disposal so pictures are back, and maybe I can start blogging a bit more again… It is what it is…

Here’s a pic of little man and big dog. :)

Rhys and Kahlua

And with that, I’m off to bed. Have a wonderful night. Bug hunting and fine tuning to commence on the weekend. :) YAY!