• Archive for February, 2007

    What access??

    Jake2/26/2007

    Before I left from work on Friday I grabbed one of the Verizon v620 cards that’s “supposed” to allow you broadband connectivity where ever you go..Maybe everywhere except Mississippi that is. I tried connecting from my Dad’s house, and honestly I didn’t hold much hope of it work. My cell phone barely works that and service is spotty at best. So I wasn’t surprised when it errored out. So when I went to Laurel I parked in the Wal-mart parking lot and decided to try it again. Still erroring out.. At this point I am kinda surprised that it’s not working. Laurel is fairly up2date with good cell phone service.

    Currently I am sitting in JavaWerks and the damn card is still erroring out. I know there are Verizon cell towers down here…So I’m thinking about going to a Verizon store and seeing what they can tell me. I fully expect that since I’m using Linux that I will get the “I’m sorry but that’s not supported speech”. But it’s worth a try right? It would have been really nice to have broadband access from my Dad’s house. I don’t think I can make you fully understand how far out in the woods they live. You have to see it to belive it.

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    Home

    Jake

    I made it home Saturday around 5pm. The drive was ok until I got into Alabama. The wind was unbeliveable from around Birmingham until I got to my Dad’s house, to the point I couldn’t accelerate going on flat land without down shifting. And add to the fact that my jeep isn’t the most aerodynamic vehicle on the road.

    Sunday I drove out to where I grew up. I wanted to go check out the barn that I have all my stuff stored it. I wasn’t able to get up there after Katrina since the people that own the house and are leasing the land did not bushhog the field. Kate and I tried to get up there but I was afraid that my exhaust pipe would start a fire. It rained Saturday night so it was nice and mucky and since I had the jeep I dropped it into 4H and played a bit. I got up to the house and to my surprise everything was locked up and nothing, that I could tell, was missing. Inside it was in pretty bad shape tho…I could tell there were rats nesting everywhere and I saw a few snake skins as well. Most of my stuff is a total loss. Mold was covering pretty much everything else that wasn’t chewed up by the rats. I should have gotten proper storage for that stuff a long time ago.
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    Good News And Stuff

    Jake2/22/2007

    I found out today that I have been promoted. I won’t get into the pay raise but let me tell you it’s the biggest pay raise I’ve every gotten at any job. With this promotion comes a lot more responsibilty which is going to force me to look at how I organize myself. Currently I use 30 boxes to setup reminders and then 30 Boxes sends me an SMS message over my phone. I have never been an “organized” person per se. I know where everything is, but I don’t really have a method of keeping up with everything.
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    Here’s to 1 year

    Jake2/14/2007

    Today marks 1 year for Kate and I. I have never dated my best friend until now. Kate, this has been the best year of my life. I look forward to many,many more with you. Happy anniversary baby :-*

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    Site down

    Jake2/6/2007

    The site is going to be down for a bit tonight starting at 2100 EST. I am moving everything to http://www.year26.org instead of http://year26.org/wp. This will hopefully get rid of the dups I’m starting to see in Google searches. I thought it would be a quick fix so I switched the bits in Wordpress and tried to get to the site and it wasn’t there. So I will work on this tonight and everyything should be back up in the morning.

    *Edit* So I broke the site earlier. I am still trying to get some stuff worked out…Note the new link..

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    Screwed Again

    Jake2/2/2007

    Thanks Uncle Sam..Between federal and state taxes I owe $243. I really don’t know what the hell I’m doing wrong. Every year my return has gotten smaller and smaller. Last year I got $15 back from federal and owed $29 on state. *sigh* I just don’t know wtf I’m missing. Everyone else I know is getting back $500-$1500 back…I’m so damn tired of dreading tax time.

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