John’s Musings

12/30/2004

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12/23/2004

Snow? What Snow?

Filed under: General — John @ 11:04 am

Well, here it is December 23rd and I keep hearing about this snow storm and that snow storm… Do we get any snow? nope… jsut bloody fricking cold weather…

My poor friend Neisha and her family is snowed in at their IN home.
http://www.blueriver.net/~ckgooden/dec04.htm

I’m not saying I want that much snow… but a nice covering would help to put me in the mood. Althgouh, if my wish is to be granted, I’d preferr it not start falling till later this evening as I have Christmas gifts to deliever tonight yet. Yeah I know, picky, picky, picky…

12/22/2004

Christas Wrapping

Filed under: General — John @ 8:34 am

Last night I finally got around to wrapping a bunch of gifts. I now have all of the gifts for my friends and co-workers wrapped. Next up family gifts. I did manage to get Sonjas main gift wrapped too.

12/21/2004

A little more data

Filed under: General — John @ 4:55 pm

Well, I managed to recover a few more old posts. I had written a few of them in my palm pilot and never deleted them from there. So I copied and pasted them back in. So now I have some stuff in from February.

12/17/2004

It’s good to be back

Filed under: General — John @ 7:50 pm

Arriving home today, I noticed that I had finally received my replacement keyboard for my laptop. Woohoo!!! Look I can use the 6 key, and the ~ and even the delete key! The delete key is the most important thing, seeing as how windows 2000 and XP won’t let you login without CTL + ALT + DEL.

12/16/2004

mod rewrite fun

Filed under: General — cap60552 @ 10:31 pm

Well, tonight I looked throught my logs for the webserver, and noticed some interesting correlations in posts related to the annoying spamvertisers… I have now made some changes to my webserver based on complicated rulesets that should make it more… uh… fun… for the spamvertisers… :-) Nothing like having them redirect to thier own srevers for a tast of fun…

I DON’T PLAY POKER!!!

Filed under: General — cap60552 @ 9:01 pm

Listen up all you ingnorant spamvertisers, I do not play poker. I have no interest in playing poker. If you continue to attempt to post advertisements on my server I will consider it an attack and will notify the proper authorities. Perhaps now would be a good time to mention that I do have a binder of phone numbers of certain people in washington that would be very interested in your activities. The binder was given to me when I sat and talked with Dennis Hastert in his office… Do I make myself clear?

Ohhhhh Christmas Tree…

Filed under: General — cap60552 @ 8:54 pm

Well, tonight I FINALLY managed to get the lights on the Christmas tree. I’ve been procrastinating on that for almost the whole month. I even put up the rope ligths on the wheelchair ramp outside. Now all I have to do is put the star on top, and put on the decorations. I should probably be working on that instead of posting here, but oh well…

12/15/2004

Re-enter data? Are you NUTS!

Filed under: Work Stories — John @ 5:11 pm

Today I discovered that instead of writing code (for whatever reason) to transfer data from our old HR system, to the new one… the Staff is having to RE-Enter data… By hand… WHAT THE HELL!!! I cannot belive anyone would advocate this method of migration.

Children’s Fairys

Filed under: General — John @ 8:54 am

A friend of mine sent this to me in e-mail today, and I couldn’t stop laughing becasue its so true…

I find that the amount of panic that will be shown when a child loses a body part greatly depends on whether or not that body part has its own fairy.

“Hey, my tooth fell out… cool.”

“Hey, my eye fell out… holy f#!@!!”

12/9/2004

Pepsi Savings?

Filed under: General — John @ 10:20 am

I just got a bottle cap from Pepsi that has a code for 15% off a $50 purchase at NFLshop.com. I’ll never use it, so I’m putting it here for the world. 1st come 1st serv basis… Post in the comments if you use it. (more details…)

MG52A

I have to laugh at thier odds though. I usually drink a bottle a day, and this is the 1st time since this contest started that I have gotten one of these codes.

12/7/2004

Litte bunny fu fu

Filed under: General — cap60552 @ 12:57 pm

Ok, so I didn’t exactly scoop up the field mouse, and it wasn’t me that bopped it on the head but the title seemd somehow appropriate. Last night while sitting here wathcing TV, and waiting for the E-Bay auction for my replacement keyboard for my laptop to end, I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I was pretty sure it was a mouse but wasn’t positive. This time of year we usually end up with one or two that make it in the house, it’s an old house and I don’t think I’ll ever find all the cracks the litte buggers use to sneek in. Anyway, about 30 miutes later he showed up again from out of the bathroom (he must have come up the drain pipe for the sink) and ducked behind the entertainment center. I went and blocked off both ends of it, effectivly trapping the little critter behind the center. I then placed a trap back there. Yes it was a snap trap, one of the old variety. This morning when I checked, sure enoguh he was dead. Poor little guy. I feel a little touch of guilt about it, but I have to balance that with the fact that we are supposedly the dominate species on the planet… so in this case of man -vs- mouse, I win…

Quotable Quote…

Filed under: General — cap60552 @ 1:43 am

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”.
William Butler Yeats

12/5/2004

Splish Splash I won’t be takin’ a bath…

Filed under: General — John @ 9:14 pm

Today I was out putting up christmas lights and I ended up getting my shoes pretty messy. When I got done I went into the bathroom to clean off my shoes. In doing so I peeled up the bath mat so that I wouldn’t get it completly muddy. When I peeled it up I discovered to my horror, that there are three cracks in the tub. So now it appeares that unless I can find someone who can repair the damage, I will have to replace the tub.

12/3/2004

John’s Christmas List

Filed under: Christmas Lists — John @ 7:17 pm

Happy Holidays to All,

I have had a really hard time coming up with things for this list
this year. I really don’t need a lot. There are so many other people
in the world that need a lot more than I do. So I guess this becomes
a list of wants, and of things I can and will use.

  • Socks, I am always in need of socks… Please stick to the
    Haynes Crew
    socks, Size 12-14
    , they are plain white with the grey toes
    and heels.
  • I could use a new battery for my Sony DSC-75 camera; the original
    for it is starting to wear out. (Battery: NP-FM50)
  • I would like to have a smaller "tack" hammer for projects
    that require a bit more delicacy than is afforded by my framing
    hammer.
  • Another tool that would be nice to have is a nail set. Stanley
    makes some nice one with rubber grips that come in a three pack
    of various sizes.
  • I can always use CD-R and DVD-R discs to use for backing up computer data.
  • I have a few items in my Amazon.com wish list which can be accessed
    from the right hand side of my website.
  • I have also selected a few items at "Renstore.com"
    that would be nice editions to my growing collection. The link
    to my wish
    list
    is also available on my website.

Thank you one and all for anything you might give me, nothing is
really expected. Merry Christmas to all,

John Wohlers

12/2/2004

More Badges

Filed under: General — John @ 7:18 pm

Well I was at it again. I made a couple more badges. These badges are home automation related.

X10 Home Automation

Mr House

Shelby’s Christmas List

Filed under: Christmas Lists — John @ 7:11 pm

Dear Santa,
It is again that time of year to ponder what we want for Christmas.
I think this year I will keep it simple. I would like for everyone
in my family to be happy and healthy. I wish them all love and joy
in this holiday season and throughout the year.

If you have any energy left after that, there are a few things
I might like to have for myself:

  • I could use some new clothes, so gift certificates to Kohl’s
    would be welcome
  • I would love a new Angel that lights up for atop my Christmas
    Tree for next year
  • Of course I still love Winnie the Pooh, so anything is game
    there
  • We could use some new bedding for our King sized bed, (the room
    is purple)
  • I would love to have recent pictures of my family to hang in
    my home
  • (if my husband should read this, jewelry is always a good choice
    : )

Remember these are things that I would like to have, not that I
have to have, so be sure to take care of all of the children and
less fortunate in the world before me.

I hope the entire Clause family is doing well along with the Reindeer
and elves. I will be sure to leave cookies and milk for you and
carrots for the Christmas crew. Travel safely.
God Bless us all

ShelbyJo Lynch
1412 Chestnut Lane
Yorkville, IL 60560

Palley’s Christmas List

Filed under: Christmas Lists — John @ 5:33 pm

Dear Family,
Thanks for being there for me, and for all the nice gifts you have
given me in the past. This year, please be more conservative as
I know none of us have any extra money for Christmas or just for
expenses. I am really short this year, myself and don’t want any
of you to put yourself out because you think you need to be more
generous. We all know we love each other and that is what really
counts.

Things I want or need for Christmas:

  • Socks-terry knit short ankle, size 9-12
  • Hooded-sweatshirt-size 3X(men’s or women’s) navy, gray (any
    shade), black, olive, tan, or brown.

These next 3-items are just extra things I can use:

  • 1 pr. Sweat pants 3X WITH POCKETS ONLY, navy, gray or black
  • Oscal 500 with vitamin D
  • Wal-Mart shopping cards

Love and God bless you all.
Thanks,
Palley

12/1/2004

BBSpot - Which File Extension are You?

Filed under: General — John @ 8:10 am

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