The first week of 2005 is almost over, moving quickly so far! Let’s see, Wednesday night I took some time to work on the sonic website. It is now complete and we are working on buying a domain name and some hosting space. It should be up in the next couple days. You can see the page here. As always feedback is welcome…

Last night we had finally had enough of being cooped up all night so we headed to the Brooksider and met up with Todd, Phil and Doni. The bearcats had a big win, so that was a nice surprise. It was only the second or third time I’ve seen them play this year. Now with replaytv I should be able to record them all the time though! By the way, I am growing very fond of it already. I have not tried to take a movie from the unit and put it on my computer yet, but maybe sometime this weekend I will do that.

Tonight Kim’s sister Bobbi and her boyfriend Chris are coming to visit for the weekend. Hopefully we can show them a good time while they are here!

I almost forgot, here is something to cure your boredom. Incredible pictures from the Hubble telescope.

Well Kim got off work at noon, totally unfair. I’m still here at work, but hopefully I’ll be gone within an hour. I did glance out the window while in a meeting just a bit ago and saw a car in the ditch in the middle of the highway. The roads do not seem to be any better, in fact they are probably worse then when I drove in this morning. It hasn’t really stopped precipitating at all today. I think it switched to snow for a while but soon moved back to the sleet and freezing rain. Oh so much fun!

With all this weather excitement, I forgot to mention that today is my workaversary. That’s right, I have no officially been employed at OSI for one full year. Next up a raise, well at least I hope so. :)

I would like to apologize once again for the downtime. I have been messing with my network a bunch the past couple of days. The good news is, I think I fixed it! That’s right, I have a router installed and all of my servers are functioning correctly. I ended up taking the D-Link back to the store and getting a Netgear. After an hour or so I was up and running with my server working perfectly. We also took some time last night to setup ReplayTV. Looks like it will be working perfectly on this network. We even set it up to record Oprah for Kim everyday. Looks like my networking troubles are finally over. That is until we move across the hall, haha.

An ice storm hit yesterday afternoon. It really isn’t as bad as they were making it out to be. The hardest part about getting here to work today was thawing out the car. The roads are mainly slushy and there is less than an inch of it there. I think I averaged about 45 on the highway coming in, so it just took a little longer. I wish it would have closed down the city, but we weren’t so lucky. Looks like I’ll be here all day…

First of all, happy new year to you all! Can’t wait until the first time I write 2004 and then have to somehow find a way to change the 4 to a 5. Always an adventure…

I can’t really remember all the way back to Thursday night. It seems like forever ago. I bet that we just went to the gym and worked out, then went home and cooked a meal. Wait I think it’s all coming back to me. We had dinner and watched the movie Terminal. We also watched Twenty First Dates at some point in the weekend.

Friday we headed down to the plaza Panera for lunch. We meant to go down for breakfast, but by the time we got there we were ready for a sandwich and soup. From there we had our day of shopping with gift cards we had accumulated, and also exchanging a few things here and there. I was pretty tired of shopping by the end of it. Throughout the day we had many conversations with Joel and Amanda about what to do. We had gone back and forth with the all inclusive Uptown Theater idea or the cheaper Pomeroy show at the Lucky Brewgrille. We eventually decided to try and save some money and do the Pomeroy show. We found out that if we went and had dinner at the restaurant that we could get in for free to the show (a $25 ticket) so we went early for dinner. It wasn’t bad, but the fact that we got in for free made it all worthwhile. We had the closest booth to the stage, so it was like we were VIP for the night. It was an excellent time, and we even got free mini bottles of champagne. All in all I think we spent close to the price of the Uptown, but I think we had a much better time! I put some pictures up, so head on over and check those out…

Saturday we headed to Todd’s place once we finally got moving. He had a few different bottles of premium bourbon whiskey that he wanted me to taste. We made some skyline dip and the 4 of us (Phil stopped over as well) destroyed it in no time at all. The football games were entertaining throughout the day. Doni eventually stopped over as well, just in time for the pizza dinner. It was a nice relaxing day!

Sunday we had Chipotle for lunch. I’m so glad that I got so many gift certificates there, it was excellent! From there Kim and I decided to clean the apartment. We mostly concentrated on the floors since I think we had only done them a couple times before. The apartment looks pretty good, but I’m still holding out for the one across the hall. Hopefully we hear something about that this week…

I’m starting a new project at work today. I am automating many of the test scripts that we run occasionally on the software. We should run them more often, but don’t have the time to do so. Hopefully once I get this done, we can run scripts on the software frequently so that we can catch problems before the clients do. :)