Engaged

 

To all who have followed my blog… Oh Wait… No one has looked at this in over 2 years… well if you had looked I am now engaged to a wonderful girl. Her name is Diana and I love her a lot.

 

We are looking forward to getting married in July of 2010. Stay tuned for more information about the wedding.

Diana and I want to have a very small service on the beach with just our parents there… but reality says we have to have at least a party with 50 of our closest friends and family.

Vacation.... Day 1

Woohoo... Vacation time.

For Christmas last year my parents invited me to go to spring training in Arizona with them.

Sure I could use some heat I say.

Fast forward to March time to go to Arizona.

We left a rainy overcast Seattle an hour later than scheduled. Boo. But when we arrived at the Phoenix Airport all was well. We stepped off the plane right into the 90+ degree heat. YAY.

We proceeded to go to the other airport (rental car center) that the city has built. (they seriously have a full terminal just like an airport for rental cars.)

After getting our rental car. We drove up to Scottsdale to find our accomidations.

The Scottsdale Links Resort. (very nice place). After getting checked in we set out to find our chosen dinner spot. Roaring Fork.

After an adventurous drive to find the resturant we had a wonderfull dinner. Thanks to my brother's girlfriend. Not only did she get us reservations but she bought the wonderfull meal.

I had a beef tenderloin steak with loaded mashed potatos. It was great.

That was all for day 1 of vacation. More will be posted as time permits.

Long time no post

I'm still out here. Just havent had much to post about in the last couple months.

Work has been very busy. My department is starting up our annual PC replacement project and this year I am the lead on the project.

I'll post more as I have time...

Retail Woes....

So I found this cool new gadget today.... it's a HDTV Tuner that is USB Based made just for laptops and such.

After reading a couple of reviews and seeing good things about it I decided to purchase one...

I happened across a good deal (after rebate) for the gadget at a local big box electronics store.
The store website says it's in stock and that I can pick it up when ever I want.

So I make the purchase online. This store has the option to pick up what you order online in the store.. What the heck we live in a instant gratification society why not pick it up on the way home.

So on the way home from work this evening I stop by the big box store and am helped by a very nice person who goes to look for my order...

Well it seems that the store did not actually have the item in stock. Apparently the website was out of date with their inventory levels. The chain had a store up north in the next city that I could drive up and get it if I wanted. Or I could have a refund.... Well I don't really need to have this device tonight so I decided to get the refund and see if I can find it online a good deal without dealing with rebates.

So the nice person in customer service refunds my money to my credit card. Then she hands me a gift card for their store..... I'm like what's this? she says "we weren't able to fulfill your order in 24 minutes so we give you that as a store credit." and walks away to help the next customer.

I thanked her and went along on my way home.

New Camera

Cammie in the Snow

I got a new camera in the recent Black Friday sales.

I purchased a Nikon D50. So far I really like the camera and am looking forward to learning how to use it to take great pictures.

Windows Job is Complete.... Finally

Okay so I wrote in a previous post about my frustration with the window company that I paid to put in my new windows in my condo....

Tuesday at work I get a call from the Window company saying that they have the window ready to go again and they will come out when ever I want them to. I let them know that I am not willing to miss any more work for them to get the window installed. So the scheduler says Okay we'll come out after 5:30 on wednesday to install the glass... Great I say.

Well today (Wednesday) I get a call while I'm at work from the installer and he's almost at my place and wanted to know if I can get home and let him install the window now... Well this call came in at about 2:00 in the afternoon. I work until 4:00. I told him that there was no way I could get out of work early today and that he would have to wait until I could get home to install the window.

4:00 comes around and I head for home... The installer is sitting in the parking lot waiting for me... and has been here since 2:20. I proceed to let him know that he is not suppose to be at my place for another hour... He starts to tell me about his crappy day... I say I don't care just get the window installed please.

As he's taking the old (wrong) glass out he noticed that when one of the pane's was built at the factory it was put together backwords. the Low E coating was on the outside instead of on the inside where the gas is.

He get's the new privacy glass installed and FINALLY I can call my windows installed and done.

YAY!!!

Windows Vista Beta Testing

I have been given the opportunity to test the new version of Windows.

It's pretty cool but it looks like it still needs some work in the driver department.

I have a new Dell Laptop with a Intel 950GMA chipset video driver. Vista does not yet have good support for this newer laptop.

I might try it on one of my desktops this afternoon but im not sure.

As for the features it looks very nice and preforms well on my laptop even with the bad video drivers.