I blame not going on a ride this morning on Bouse and Promack. Ryan says he didn’t get in until about 5 in the morning, so there was no way he was going to be up and riding at 9. Officer Brittany says he never got the message. Any any event, when neither of them showed up, I decided it looked like a nice day to sit around the house and do nothing. We’re supposed to go riding now on Monday morning, but it may very likely be raining then. If so, I’ll just stay home and eat junk food instead of riding!

I finished off my indentured servitude this morning by playing a set of Rummy Five Hundred with Matthew. I beat him good again today: 540 to 402 in four games! I think it was well worth it. I can now enjoy my fudge for a couple days with no ill side effects.

I added some stuff to the store today and even fixed a couple header tags for pages that weren’t showing up. Of course, in the process somewhere I managed to break the header tag contribution and we stopped having customer headers! Fortunately, I was able tonight to restore one of the files from backup and that seemed to have fixed the problem. Today I added a bunch of mic clips, which I had seen people searching for earlier on the store. Hopefully, they buy more than one, or else life is going to suck fulfilling a $2 order!

Right before I was about to head into GT, it started raining and it didn’t let up until after the wedding was over. So far we’ve received half an inch, and that is in about four hours. So, rain equaled verandah wedding, which in turns equals really boring and frustrating for Scott. I will admit that it is nice not having to set anything up, but it is really annoying not having a clue what it sounds like out there, well other than just knowing that it sounds bad. Anyways, it worked.

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After the wedding I fixed the website, watched without a trace and now I think it is time for bed. I’ve got Church o’ Bob in the morning and then I think I’m going to give the Temecula YSA ward a try. Hopefully the website is right, and they are meeting at 2:30 p.m. See you in 2006!

This morning I did a memorial service at GT. It went pretty well, and was fairly short. After the service I got to take apart the DVD player in the grand hall as it had a disc stuck in it. There was something sticky on the center of the disc which was causing it to stick to the motor. I cleaned it off, and it seemed to be ejecting fine, but then after watching the 11 minute video to test it, it decided to get stuck again. Since it was working, I told GT just to leave it alone and push play when they needed to play the video tonight. I personally liked Scott’s idea: Just charge them for a new DVD player and give them our old player with the DVD still stuck in it! Anyways, the moral of the story is to not do anything to your discs like put stickers on them!

I came home for my lunch break when I accidentally entered into an agreement with my brother. He offered to make me more fudge (I finished up the rest yesterday) if I would play with him for five hours. Well, we were negotiating, and I was at 70 minutes while he was at 170 something minutes. I got confused and said I would do it for 176 minutes! Oh well, history is history. I beat him but over a 100 points tonight at rummy 500! Now I’ve got more fudge, but I have to spend another 96 minutes playing with him. Moral of this story: My life revolves around food. The way to my heart is food. Best food of all: chocolate. Chocolate fudge is an especially good way to my heart… (Another good way would be FUDDS!!!! I’m feeling a trip to Buena Park coming soon…)

Tonight’s wedding was pretty uneventful as well. Sherri’s Littlite went out during the ceremony, but other than that, I think it went fairly well – especially since most of it was already setup for me! . . .

It better hurry up and rain or be really cold tomorrow morning so that I don’t have to go for a bikeride. Mr. Bouse hasn’t responded yet, but Promack has tentatively accepted the ride. Other than a ride I get to work a wedding tomorrow night with all the “cool” people (according to Nicole). At least I think all my favorite (GT) girls will be there. And then it’s a whole new year…

I finally made it on that bikeride this morning. It was hard to get going at first, but once I did it felt good and I was glad that I did it. I just did the standard warmup ride, and it didn’t even hurt that bad. I think I might think about doing it again on Saturday morning. Let me know if you want to join in.

I had lunch with Kristi today at Islands. It was no Fuddruckers, but I think it may have half solved the cravings. Maybe I can make it to next week and Fudds now. Kristi seemed to be doing good, although she had her wallet stolen at work about two weeks ago. She has to go back to school mid January, while I don’t have to go back until the beginning of February. She also said that she was taking pictures for a campus magazine now. Kristi, I wish you the best of luck!

After lunch I went to Mervyn’s and bought some shirts to get CBC embroidered on. I wasn’t able to find exactly what I was looking for, but I think I found some stuff that will work.

Other than that, things have been pretty quiet today. I was supposed to meet with Jeff this morning, but he ended up going to Big Bear for the weekend, so that got postponed. GT called and said the DVD player ate a DVD this evening. I guess I better plan on doing some surgery tomorrow morning while I’m there!

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I’m going back to watching Without a Trace and then it is off to bed for me! A memorial service and a wedding tomorrow along with whatever else pops up. Good night and God Bless!

Another boring day has come and gone, but I must admit that I’m growing to like the boring days. Unfortunately, I’m starting to really feel the daily boredom get to me and I’m going crazy. I need some excitement!

I got some good bookkeeping done today. I went through and took care of a bunch of old stuff, making sure that things got billed that were supposed to be and such. I only found a couple minor transactions that seemed to have fallen through the cracks. I even got caught up on billing people for hosting!

Still no check from the high school. I wonder if they found a better price! I got a good amount of things added to the store today. I think our store was even fairly active today, although we didn’t get any orders.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I really miss Fudds. Kathryn probably thinks I’m dead. Chad says we should plan a trip for next week. It better be early next week cause I’m about to starve to death without a good burger.

Sadly, I don’t think I have anything else to report. Yes, my life is that boring. I watched Danny Deckchair tonight. It was probably about what you would expect it to be. I gave it three stars. It was fairly funny, with some slow parts.

That’s all folks…

And you all thought there was only that one crazy guy who synchronized his Christmas lights to music.

Check out what Curtis did. Curtis ran lights for Shadowridge Dance last year at the Bob.

Today was fairly uneventful. I almost got myself to go for a ride this morning, but it was just way too cold. (It was like 55 or something – I have no clue what I think I’m complaining about!) In any event, it didn’t happen, but I’m telling myself that I have to go tomorrow. Bouse actually told me this morning that we need to start going on rides again because he is getting fat. See what happens when you become a cop… You get fat from eating too many dougnuts! MMM… Pumpkin Spice… Time is running out!

Chad and I labeled the Edison circuits on stage at the Bob today. That was some fun stuff. For the most part there are three circuits that run around the stage, kind of every third box. In any event, if you use two plugs that are next to each other you’re set to go. The stage manager has his or her own dedicated circuit in the murphy bed and then there is a weird one upstage left which is just totally out of place and could be connected with something in the green room.

I only had one episode left of Without a Trace, so I had some time to get through some emails this evening. . . .

I can’t think of anything else to report, so I guess that means it is time for sleep!

• iPod interface (with charging) for 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (~$100)
  • One of many possible products,
    froogle
• Treo Bluetooth Headset
• Mac OS X "Tiger" ($69 edu or $199 for 5 pack)
• Office 2004 for Mac (Student/Teacher Edition $150)
• SD Memory Card
• Dreamweaver/Macromedia Studio (I currently have ver 6.1)
• Maha C401FS Battery Charger (or current equivalent, larger capacity)
• Additional Memory for Apple Power Mac G5 2.0 GHz
• The Cheesecake Factory Gift Cards, etc.
• Apple Stuff
• Leather Jacket
• iTunes Music Store gift certificates,
  allowances – scott@schester.com

• Apple Gift Certificates

Also see: Froogle Wish List

Birthday wishes go out to Amanda C. today.

I had another fairly quiet day today. I added a couple things to the store today just so that Chad wouldn’t have the newest items. I’ve been trying to find things that we can actually maybe even sell lately. I’ve added a bunch of Shure stuff that doesn’t fall under MAP rules, so maybe we’ll have a chance. The sad part is, it is cheaper to buy their stuff as a consumer individually, instead of in the packages that they create because of their selective MAP policies. The store was pretty dead today too, even though I was hoping to get some post holiday business. Maybe we’ll get lucky and have some more business the rest of the week.

I made some changes to my website. Pretty much everything is navigable through my blog now and I even set the site up to redirect to the blog now when one goes to the homepage. Maybe this will help keep things organized and easier to update. I had fun manually adding old guestbook entries and links. If I missed anyone, please let me know and I’ll get you added.

Matthew beat my socks off at rummy today. He won three games in a row with a total score about 100 above mine! I watched Saved! tonight. Nothing really to write home about, but I guess it was better than sitting around doing nothing. My Netflix Queue is down to about 35 movies now! (It used to be up in the 300s.) I think I might actually be running out of good movies to watch. I find myself watching more and more television shows. Right now I’m watching Without a Trace, Season One.

Oh, since school ended I watched the rest of Season 4 of 24. Wow! I am still impressed with the program, but it seems like they are starting to slip a bit on some of the stuff. Season Five should be interesting; I watched the prequel to it just last weekend.

I did a little bit of cleaning up this evening. One can actually see the top of my dresser again and some parts of the work table too! Now we’ll just have to see how long it lasts. I came across a couple more Airband Stage Crew shirts, courtesy of Jostens, when I was cleaning. If you’re interested, I think I saw medium and large sizes. I think I’m also going to go through my closet and start weeding out some of the Fallbrook stuff. If you’re interested in any shirts or sweatshirts, let me know!

This week looks like it should be fairly quiet, so maybe I can keep getting caught up on things and get some extra work done. There is going to be a lot to do with the year coming to a close. It should be fun figuring out all the new tax stuff and all that goes with it.

Good night, God Bless. Dream of bed bugs tonight.

As if the Treo sound system wasn’t bad enough, someone has come up with the idea to power a lava lamp from the usb port on your computer!

Since when did our computers go from work tools to glorified power supplies?

Chad says that he is putting one on the TD desk at the Bob!

I would ask the question of what are they going to think up next, but I really don’t think that I want to know.

EDIT: They make a USB powered George Foreman grill! I give up!

You know things are bad when your cell phone needs its own sound system:

http://web.palm.com/products/Product.jhtml?id=370001&cat=20023

Even worse…

It supposedly only works with Sprint and Cingular Treo 650s!

Check out this sunrise from last Monday

Anyone have any thoughts on why my Lexar 1 GB CF card won’t mount when used in my SanDisk Firewire Imagemate CompactFlash Card Reader (model SDDR-80)?

The card works fine in my USB1 SanDisk CF reader. The card also works fine using a PC card adapter on my PowerBook. It will not mount on either my PowerBook or G5 using the firewire reader, but the firewire reader does work with SanDisk 512 MB cards. I am running Mac OS 10.4.3 on both the PowerMac G5 and PowerBook G4.

I’ve searched google, Apple Discussions and SanDisk’s support site and can’t seem to find anything relevant, but it is hard to get past all the stores on google.

It appears that the OS doesn’t recognize the card in any way. Even when I pull the card out of the reader, I don’t get an error message that the disc wasn’t ejected properly. I’ve tried plugging in the reader with the card already in it, and I’ve tried plugging in the reader and then inserting the card. I do believe that I have seen the Lexar card/SanDisk reader work before, but only 15-20% of the time, and never under conditions that I have been able to repeat.

Just as a test, I plugged in the reader/card to my iBook, running 10.3.9. System profiler shows the card reader, but the card doesn’t mount.

System Profiler Info:

Flash Card Reader:

Manufacturer: 1394
Model: 0×0
GUID: 0×781B200004195
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
Flash Card Reader Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0×10483
Unit Spec ID: 0×609E
Firmware Revision: 0×2600
Product Revision Level: 1.09
Sub-units:
Flash Card Reader SBP-LUN:

Ok, so I’m a little behind, once again. Let’s see, last time I wrote I think it was Thanksgiving, about a month ago…

School is over. I made it through finals, papers and all the other fun stuff. I’m still anxious to hear my final grades, which as of yesterday still hadn’t been posted.

I have certainly enjoyed my first week off of school. I have been getting lots of sleep, I have had time to add some stuff to the store (and Chad has been lazy the last couple days – slacker!), but it still seems like there hasn’t been enough time in the day. I still have tons of things that I want to do that I haven’t gotten to yet. There was a lot I was hoping to have done by Christmas, but it doesn’t appear that has happened. I never got my Christmas cards out; maybe better luck next year!

I got to see Rande the other day. He was in town for a couple days and a handful of us went out to see Donna at Fridays. Of course, after waiting more than an hour for a table, we came to find out that Donna didn’t really have a section; she was the expediter so we didn’t even really get to see her!

Christmas today was good. I still have pretty much no interest in the season, which I know is bad. We opened presents this morning, Matthew was fairly happy with all that he got. I got Matthew the iPod nano lanyard with headphones, Tom a 1 GB Lexar JumpDrive and Susan her continual ReplayTV subscription. I got the typical Chester family stuff: home-made gift certificates with cash attached and food (homemade chocolate fudge, mint kisses, etc.).

I was thinking about making the drive to Vista today for church, but Matthew kept me fairly busy playing games and such. I need to call Brother McKinley back, but I never seem to think of it when the timing is appropriate. I keep telling myself that next weekend I’m going to make it, but it seems like it never happens. If the information on the website is right, the Temecula YSA ward starts at 2:30. I think I might actually be able to make that timeframe work. (Somehow I don’t think that is the way it is supposed to go.)

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I’ve been so bad and I feel myself drifting away from everyone and everything. I miss all my friends from Idaho, and all my friends from Fallbrook as well! I never see any of them, at least not outside of a work setting, and I know that is mostly my fault. I can’t afford to keep driving to Temecula and going out to eat, and even the few times that I have, I just haven’t enjoyed myself. I’ve gotten used to hanging out at home, not talking to anyone and just watching movies. How do I fix that? What can I do?

I really think I need to get back into an exercise routine. I think it is supposed to rain tomorrow, but maybe I can get a ride in. Maybe I can get a Monday, Wednesday, Friday or at least a Monday/Friday thing going here. It sure would be nice if my riding partner was still around. I haven’t seen or really talked with Bouse in a long time. I think we’re all just too darn busy.

And of course, as the year comes to a close, I have to start thinking about next year. I’m anxious to see what God has in store for next year, but I’m also nervous. I really want to get CBC gaining momentum, but there are so many other things to keep me off track. I have three semesters of school left, at least according to the current plan. I really want to move out by the summer, probably Temecula, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to afford anything. I spent some time playing with my budget the other day, and there just isn’t much I can cut anymore and I know I’m not being realistic with some of the figures. It looks like I need to make more money which means work more or at least get paid for more of the work that I’m doing!

I’ve already started the countdown to when I start school again: Five weeks! It is sure going to be one heck of a semester. I’m not honestly sure how I’m going to do it, but I have faith that God will get me through it! Maybe the countdown is actually a countdown until I get to Fudds again! Kathryn probably thinks I’ve died by now.

Well, I think that is about enough trouble for one night. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

How about you guys?
Did you do anything fun for the Holidays?
Give or get anything cool?
How about any new years resolutions that you know you’re not going to keep for more than a week?
Anyone want to buy a house in the I-15 Temecula corridor?

Wanna see B&H loose some money?

They’re selling a Shure ULXP4D at about half of dealer cost, and I bet they don’t even know it.

It could be a fun fight… The model number clearly indicates the dual receiver package!

Compare to Production Outlet’s: ULXP4 and ULXP4D options.

I guess we all make mistakes…