Captain's Log:
I learned more about the port deal today. President Bush asked the company buying the contracts to wait a little while, which they agreed too, so that he could convince congress that it was the right move to make. I also learned that the company we are selling this contract to is from a friendly Arab nation. The President, in an effort to keep peace and alliance with this country, has kept the ball rolling on this deal. Other than the fact that they are a friend to America, I know nothing else about the company. Time will tell if the White House is making the right move.
I started the third season of 24 today and finished the first disk...very exciting.
I talked to Bro. Snyder today and discussed the possibility of moving from a lame linux server to a more powerful MS Server 03 RC2 server. He likes the idea, but I need to get the purchase approved by Pastor as well. We will see how that goes.
In the Olympics, we are one medal away from first place in medal count. Germany has 24 and we just got our 23 medal. Hopefully, if we keep up our medal count for the next two days, we can walk away with first place. I do not think Germany got a medal today, so we can take the upper hand tomorrow.
It is supposed to rain all day tomorrow and the next. We were supposed to move a bunch of appliances for Nathan tomorrow, so that he can finish his kitchen in his condo. We will see how that goes. We also have to move and install his concrete countertop...which weighs almost four hundred pounds...
That will be all for tonight; short post. I am going to go to bed and then sleep in tomorrow. I cannot wait.
Night,
Lorimer
2.24.2006
2.23.2006
Stardate 060223.9
Captain's Log:
Another long day at work, with not too much accomplished this time around. I was able to make some more revisions on the Intranet web page, but nothing big.
Sports: We have climbed into second place in the medal count; trailing Germany by four.
News: The two people who were connected with the robbery of the British bank in Kent county. It seems they stole $87 million dollars. Apparently they dressed as police officers and entered the bank yesterday, holding it up, and then making a successful getaway. Unfortunately for them, not successful enough.
News: A father is accused of murdering his daughter's boyfriend. Before you condemn him, wait for the facts. She was 14, and he was 27... After "professing his love for her" he stated that he wanted to take her to Mexico. The father, upon hearing this, killed him...right on.
Anyway, in other news, I keep hearing about this port situation where we are going to allow foreign, Arab countries to come in and run our shipping ports (6 of them). President Bush is maintaining that we need to give these people the contract so as to maintain friendly relations with this country. The rest of the legislature in Washington is not so sure. Although the President said he would veto any attempt to stop the sale of the contracts to this Arab company, the Senate remains confident that they will have a two-thirds majority to overturn the veto. I do not yet know where I stand on this because I have only just started looking into the situation. Yes, we need to retain our friends in the Middle East, since we have few; but at what cost? I think this President is doing a great job running our country; however, do we want to allow this door to be open to non-Americans? This company may be legitimate right now, but five or ten years down the road, when we get lax again, someone who has infiltrated the system at the port will import a weapon of mass destruction to be released on our country. We will have to wait and see what the President decides to do about this dilemma, but right now, it appears that he is backing it 100%.
Movies: I just finished watching Red Eye, which was very good. Very well done.
Of course, I watched some of Wedding Crashers last night. Always a good movie. Also, a good site to check out, is the Chazz Reingold website. This website is full of rules and wedding crashing tips. Very funny.
All right, enough advice and political discussion. I will be back tomorrow...maybe.
Later,
Lorimer
Another long day at work, with not too much accomplished this time around. I was able to make some more revisions on the Intranet web page, but nothing big.
Sports: We have climbed into second place in the medal count; trailing Germany by four.
News: The two people who were connected with the robbery of the British bank in Kent county. It seems they stole $87 million dollars. Apparently they dressed as police officers and entered the bank yesterday, holding it up, and then making a successful getaway. Unfortunately for them, not successful enough.
News: A father is accused of murdering his daughter's boyfriend. Before you condemn him, wait for the facts. She was 14, and he was 27... After "professing his love for her" he stated that he wanted to take her to Mexico. The father, upon hearing this, killed him...right on.
Anyway, in other news, I keep hearing about this port situation where we are going to allow foreign, Arab countries to come in and run our shipping ports (6 of them). President Bush is maintaining that we need to give these people the contract so as to maintain friendly relations with this country. The rest of the legislature in Washington is not so sure. Although the President said he would veto any attempt to stop the sale of the contracts to this Arab company, the Senate remains confident that they will have a two-thirds majority to overturn the veto. I do not yet know where I stand on this because I have only just started looking into the situation. Yes, we need to retain our friends in the Middle East, since we have few; but at what cost? I think this President is doing a great job running our country; however, do we want to allow this door to be open to non-Americans? This company may be legitimate right now, but five or ten years down the road, when we get lax again, someone who has infiltrated the system at the port will import a weapon of mass destruction to be released on our country. We will have to wait and see what the President decides to do about this dilemma, but right now, it appears that he is backing it 100%.
Movies: I just finished watching Red Eye, which was very good. Very well done.
Of course, I watched some of Wedding Crashers last night. Always a good movie. Also, a good site to check out, is the Chazz Reingold website. This website is full of rules and wedding crashing tips. Very funny.
All right, enough advice and political discussion. I will be back tomorrow...maybe.
Later,
Lorimer
2.22.2006
Stardate 060222.7
Captain's Log:
I just got home from work. Today I learned so much about sniffing for packets on a network and discovering ID's and passwords on a network. Unbelievable stuff. I also downloaded and installed the new IE7. That is incredible. The only reason I am still leaning toward Firefox is the extensions. IE7 does not have the built-in media player and the weather and the auto copy feature and the tab browsing features of firefox. IE7 looks a lot better than the standard Firefox theme, so I am now upgrading my theme for my Mozilla browser. I also downloaded and installed Google desktop, which is very cool. My only problem with it is that it sends out a lot of information, and I do not know if I am comfortable with the amount of info it sends out. I am testing it out right now and we shall see how things go.
I am still deciding on whether or not to use the format I used for my last entry. Nothing new on the books. I am not reading like I should.
I finished season 2 of 24 last night, and I think that I am going to rent the first disk of season 3 tonight after church. I may have a supplemental log entry if I wish to discuss something from church.
Today in the news, I read the report of the Shiite temple or shrine that caved in. They are not very happy about that. Bummer...better luck next time...
I think that is all the good news for now. I have to finish cleaning out my car, so that I can give it to Luke next week. I will be left with only my truck. ;) oh well...that also needs to be cleaned out...
Until next time.
Lorimer
I just got home from work. Today I learned so much about sniffing for packets on a network and discovering ID's and passwords on a network. Unbelievable stuff. I also downloaded and installed the new IE7. That is incredible. The only reason I am still leaning toward Firefox is the extensions. IE7 does not have the built-in media player and the weather and the auto copy feature and the tab browsing features of firefox. IE7 looks a lot better than the standard Firefox theme, so I am now upgrading my theme for my Mozilla browser. I also downloaded and installed Google desktop, which is very cool. My only problem with it is that it sends out a lot of information, and I do not know if I am comfortable with the amount of info it sends out. I am testing it out right now and we shall see how things go.
I am still deciding on whether or not to use the format I used for my last entry. Nothing new on the books. I am not reading like I should.
I finished season 2 of 24 last night, and I think that I am going to rent the first disk of season 3 tonight after church. I may have a supplemental log entry if I wish to discuss something from church.
Today in the news, I read the report of the Shiite temple or shrine that caved in. They are not very happy about that. Bummer...better luck next time...
I think that is all the good news for now. I have to finish cleaning out my car, so that I can give it to Luke next week. I will be left with only my truck. ;) oh well...that also needs to be cleaned out...
Until next time.
Lorimer
2.20.2006
Stardate 060220.8
Captain's Log:
I just arrived home from my GA trip. I am going to devise a new format for these log entries, but I am still working on it, so the complete version will not appear until the end of the week and possibly next week. For now, we will call tonight's version 0.5.
Bible: John 8:12-59
Today, while I was driving home from my grandparents, I saw a billboard that gave this reference, so I decided to look it up. While driving, I took quick glances at the verses and actually learned quite a few things from the passage. Jesus is talking to the Pharisees in the temple and telling them that they are all liars and trying to get the point of his divinity across to the idiots. He must have told them four different ways that God was his father, and finally he said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." (v. 58) Then it dawned on the Pharisees that He was calling himself God. However, when they took up stones to kill Him, Jesus made his way through the crowd as if they were not there. "But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by." (v. 59) Maybe he made himself invisible, or just temporarily blinded those who sought to kill him. Either way, because his hour had not yet come, he left. I thought it was great when he called them liars and sons of Satan, and they still did not understand what he was saying. Great passage there.
Books: Mariel of Redwall, The Pale Horseman
I made no progress on my books this weekend, which is not good. I need to finish these books. The pale horseman is actually very good, but I just don't make time to read it.
Current Events: No Entry
Movies: No Entry
There will be more categories later, I suppose, but for now that is good. I am going to eat something and go to bed. Until tomorrow.
Lorimer
I just arrived home from my GA trip. I am going to devise a new format for these log entries, but I am still working on it, so the complete version will not appear until the end of the week and possibly next week. For now, we will call tonight's version 0.5.
Bible: John 8:12-59
Today, while I was driving home from my grandparents, I saw a billboard that gave this reference, so I decided to look it up. While driving, I took quick glances at the verses and actually learned quite a few things from the passage. Jesus is talking to the Pharisees in the temple and telling them that they are all liars and trying to get the point of his divinity across to the idiots. He must have told them four different ways that God was his father, and finally he said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." (v. 58) Then it dawned on the Pharisees that He was calling himself God. However, when they took up stones to kill Him, Jesus made his way through the crowd as if they were not there. "But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by." (v. 59) Maybe he made himself invisible, or just temporarily blinded those who sought to kill him. Either way, because his hour had not yet come, he left. I thought it was great when he called them liars and sons of Satan, and they still did not understand what he was saying. Great passage there.
Books: Mariel of Redwall, The Pale Horseman
I made no progress on my books this weekend, which is not good. I need to finish these books. The pale horseman is actually very good, but I just don't make time to read it.
Current Events: No Entry
Movies: No Entry
There will be more categories later, I suppose, but for now that is good. I am going to eat something and go to bed. Until tomorrow.
Lorimer
2.19.2006
Stardate 060219.9
Captain's Log:
I am going to treat this blog as a journal of sorts. I am a writer, so from time to time I will be discussing my books and short stories, as well as movies reviews, book reviews, and general views on politics and current events.
Currently, I am sitting at a computer in Georgia, at my Grandparent's house. It is good to get away from home, "recharge my batteries, and shut down the engines, and get myself back to neutral." (Vaughn, Wedding Crashers) I just finished watching Troy--great movie--and I was getting ready to go bed, when I decided to start this blog. I know that usually I start a journal and then never get back around to writing in the stupid thing. Hopefully, though not likely, this time will be different.
Tomorrow, Grandpa and I will be laying plywood in the attic of his house, as well as hanging drywall. That should be fun. At least I get to use my drill. I also have to drive back to Florida tomorrow night, so that I can go back to work on Tuesday. I am very excited about not having to teach all week--it will be nice to have a week away from the classes.
I will spend a moment explaining my stardate to...I guess to myself, so that I do not forget the system. The first two digits represent the year. The zero is not read, it is just a placemarker. The next two are the month, and the last two before the period are the day. The number after the period is the time of day (current hour/24). I know this is not the correct way to write the stardate--in case any star trek fans visit my blog--but after looking through countless websites about the calculation of the stardate, it just seemed easier to make my own format, albeit "wrong" by ST:TNG standards.
I think it is time to sign off for the night. Hopefully, I will remember to write here again. Until next time.
LWynten
I am going to treat this blog as a journal of sorts. I am a writer, so from time to time I will be discussing my books and short stories, as well as movies reviews, book reviews, and general views on politics and current events.
Currently, I am sitting at a computer in Georgia, at my Grandparent's house. It is good to get away from home, "recharge my batteries, and shut down the engines, and get myself back to neutral." (Vaughn, Wedding Crashers) I just finished watching Troy--great movie--and I was getting ready to go bed, when I decided to start this blog. I know that usually I start a journal and then never get back around to writing in the stupid thing. Hopefully, though not likely, this time will be different.
Tomorrow, Grandpa and I will be laying plywood in the attic of his house, as well as hanging drywall. That should be fun. At least I get to use my drill. I also have to drive back to Florida tomorrow night, so that I can go back to work on Tuesday. I am very excited about not having to teach all week--it will be nice to have a week away from the classes.
I will spend a moment explaining my stardate to...I guess to myself, so that I do not forget the system. The first two digits represent the year. The zero is not read, it is just a placemarker. The next two are the month, and the last two before the period are the day. The number after the period is the time of day (current hour/24). I know this is not the correct way to write the stardate--in case any star trek fans visit my blog--but after looking through countless websites about the calculation of the stardate, it just seemed easier to make my own format, albeit "wrong" by ST:TNG standards.
I think it is time to sign off for the night. Hopefully, I will remember to write here again. Until next time.
LWynten
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