December 31, 2006

With a new year comes new beginnings

Rob's new pen turning hobby has caused a bit of a problem... we now have pens EVERYWHERE!  In an attempt to find homes for some of these pens, and also to hopefully help to fund his pen turning obsession, Rob has opened a new internet store.  It's cleverly called As The Pen Turns.  He's still tweaking the new site so you may notice it changing. You can visit by clicking on the logo below.  Be sure to tell your friends! 

 

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December 28, 2006

Rob has been playing with his wood

No, not THAT wood! :) Actually, my hubby has finally taken a much needed break from playing World of Warcraft and has a new obsession in our garage workshop. He has been turning pens on a lathe for the last couple of months and has gotten pretty darn good at it. You can check out his work by going to his gallery here. (opens a new window)  Here's a shot of a couple of my favorites below.

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May 6, 2005

T.G.I.F and my adventures with Linux

Woo hoo! It's finally Friday!

I know I haven't been posting much lately but I have a decent excuse this time. I've been playing around with Linux on my laptop this week. With Windows being so insecure and so vulnerable to viruses (virii ?) and spyware I wanted to give it a try. I'm using Suse 9.2 and so far I'm pretty happy with it. It definitely takes a newbie like myself some getting used. I'm finding that I can do most everything in Linux that I can with Windows so it's encouraging me to learn more. Hopefully I'll absorb it quickly so I can get back to regular blog updates...

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April 24, 2005

She lives...

Well, much to my dismay, I had to completely reformat  my laptop, starting over from scratch, to get it back to normal. Rob was able to restore his back to normal using an XP restore point from a week ago. I don't know why but I only had about 6 days worth of restore points and NONE of them worked. All of the prior restore points I had created were simply GONE! That really freaked me out because I am obsessive about creating them for this very reason. Oh well, it's over and I'm back up so I guess I can move on now.

On a much lighter note, we had Rob's parents, his brother and sister-in-law over for lunch today. I can't believe how big my little niece Kaitlin is getting. Two of my cats really enjoyed the visit because they got to play with Kaitlin's toys, as you can see below.

Both Hobbes and Mazy made themselves comfortable on the "ExerSaucer" pretty quick.  Poor Emma, my other cat, stayed behind the refrigerator the entire day.  That is her typical hiding spot whenever the vacuum comes on so when she heard "strangers" in the house she took off for her safe place.  It took an entire hour for her to come back out after everyone had left.  Poor thing...

Well, it's been a really long week and despite being on "vacation" we did a lot of hard work to get the house in shape.  Unfortunately it's back to work tomorrow.  On that note I think I'm going to follow Kaitlin's lead in the picture below and hit the hay now.  G'night all.

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April 22, 2005

Spring cleaning... six years in the making!

Rob and I have been on vacation all this week. Unfortunately, it wasn't to enjoy a tropical getaway on some lonely island but quite the opposite. We spent the entire week doing a thorough "Spring Cleaning" throughout our house. We're on the final stretch now with only a weekend between us and returning to hell work. You can see the mountain of garbage we set out this morning, much to the chagrin of our local garbage collectors. 

Insane, isn't it?  We really aren't total slobs, just pack rats I guess.  We sort of took the "if-I-haven't-used-it-in-a-year-it must-go" attitude this time, hence the massive amount of crap you see up there.  Much of it probably could have been sold at a yard sale but neither one of us have the time or patience to have one.

Well, I reckon I've rested long enough.  Time to get back to work...

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April 17, 2005

PixelBrat's Blog: Take Two

Hi there and welcome to my new blog design. Yes, I know, I said several months ago that my blogging days were over. I guess I've had a change of heart. That's a woman's prerogative, right? I figure, if nothing else, it will let my family know what I'm up to since they are always accusing me of being anti-social by "sitting up in Buford with my head up my ass." Will I update this one any more often than the last one? Nah, probably not. Oh, and I probably won't allow comment posting since they are a magnet for spammers. I don't know about you but I get enough of that crap in my inbox.

For this blog-go-round I decided to change the design from my last blog. You may notice things changing a bit here and there for a little while as I learn more about CSS. (Cascading Style Sheets) Therefore please bear with me as I play around with the site design a bit. It's been fun but not something I plan on doing for long.

Oh, I almost forgot... Rob and I signed up for the Basic Motorcycle Class!! We'll be taking it mid May and if we pass, we'll both be licensed to ride! You know what that means, don't you? There will be a new bike in my future! Woo hoo!!

OK, enough for now.

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