How was your Weekend?

Mine was ok.

I can’t really complain about it right?  Although I didn’t have a whole lot on my list to accomplish this weekend, it sure seemed that I was always doing something or occupied.

It started Saturday with the dog waking me up way too early.  7:30am is a time I like to sleep past on Saturday.  And of course once I got up she went back to bed, lol.  Then I came into work about 11am.  We had a bunch of things on the list to accomplish:

• New phone system cut over.
• Upgrade our Quickbooks Software to Enterprise 9.
• Update our Active Directory Servers.
• Update the firmware on our Exchange server.

There were a few other things but I won’t bore you with them.  Finally got out of work about 5pm due to a last minute emergency and proceeded home.  Sunday morning we got up and went to an awesome church service and then met up with some friends for lunch and a couple hours of Wii time.  I left them to pick up my little brother and we went and saw Valkyrie.  Movie was simply Awesome! After the movies I dropped him off and headed home to relax and prepare for the upcoming week.

Did you do anything special this weekend?

So Far 2009 = Busy

I cannot believe it’s already the 17th.  This month feels like it has just flown by.  In fact it’s been so busy I haven’t posted anything in a long time.

Soccer started back up for 2 weeks now, and that takes up a couple of my free nights after work.  Trying to get the girls ready for spring league games which start in mid February.  Speaking of work, that has been busy too.  We usually are pretty swamped in January right after the holidays.  The IT Dept (my boss and I) came up with our 2009 goal list and there are some things we might not accomplish, but I hope we can complete all of them.  Here are a few items from that list which I also have to learn and research prior to completing.

• Moving from Exchange 2003 to 2007 (on a virtualization system)
• Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory)
• Put in new phone system (ah that is what I’m doing later today) – Check..
• Hire a web/print developer
• And various other goals and small projects.

I have put in a lot of Facebook time looking up people and using it more.  I haven’t played the Wii too much this last week but a whole lot up to last week.  I guess I need to jump on that today and get some time in =).  Tomorrow I will be taking my little brother (I’m a big brother for North Texas Big Brother, Big Sisters) to the movies it should be fun.   I have also been using up my commute time to listen to some cool books lately.  This one is called “The 7th Son” it’s by JC Hutchins.  I I just finished book 2 and starting book 3 today.  What an awesome story so far.  I highly recommend it.  Oh and it’s free to download.  And last but not least we got our final approval for our adoption/foster license.

The rest of January is uncertain except a few things.  Of course more soccer, might goto the sci-fi/comic con in Dallas next weekend and more work and soccer, lol.

Has your January been busy so far?

The Christmas Sweater

Last night we went with some friends to watch ‘The Christmas Sweater’ Glenn Beck program at our nearest movie theater.  I was looking forward to seeing this for quite some time and all was good once we arrived.  However, once it started we had no sound. arghh..  so 10 minutes fly by before we get sound and the movie theater wasn’t going to do anything about it.  We asked them to restart it, since we paid $15 each for the tickets.  He said they couldn’t..  Most of us were not happy.  So we started to catch up watching and trying to figure out what was going on when it shut off and they had come back in and advised us that they ‘got permission’ to restart it.

I’m really glad they did cause those first few minutes that we missed were pretty vital to his story.  Of course I will not give any of the story away here, but I do have to say that it was a wonderful story and I wished I would have saw this in person.  It’s a side of Glenn Beck that you don’t see on TV.  (Which I can’t wait for him to get on with Fox)

An excellent show and an excellent story was told.  I highly recommend watching it if you can, or read the book.  I know I’m going to go out and get his book and read it.

Book Link

Weekend Wrapup (Oct. #1)

The weekend started off with a league soccer game.  Didn’t do to well on that one, we lost 0-2.  After the game I rushed home so I wouldn’t miss too much of the Oklahoma vs. Texas game.  Which was a pretty good game, but by now we all know the outcome.  And in case you missed it, Oklahoma lost which means they lost their #1 ranking as well.

Saturday night we went out to a quick (fast food) dinner since we left the house late and we were going to the movies.  ** Side note – Don’t spill your coke all over and in your wife’s new purse **  So after the clean up and finishing off our food, we headed to the theaters and watched ‘Fireproof’.  What a good movie.  If anyone left that movie theater with a dry eye just didn’t get it.  I highly recommend watching that movie.

Sunday early evening our friends invited us to ‘A Night of Hope’ with Joel Osteen.  This was pretty cool.  Never have seen him before in person and was a really fun outing with our friends to fellowship and spend some time with them and listen to Joel Osteen.  It was a good night.

Of course it’s now Monday and back to the busy work week.

Hope you all had a good weekend….

It’s Friday Morning

How is your Friday?  Of course some that read this, browse over or just drop by might be in your evening time.  Welcome.  I can’t tell you how glad I am that it is Friday.  Monday started off a horrible week.  lol.  I ended up working 8am to 10pm Monday due to some sql server upgrades and emergency updates.  It wasn’t really fun but I can’t help that a drive or 2 went nuts.  Anyways, I’m sitting at work and for the first time in a long time, I’m just reading the paper and checking out some news articles, and mainly checking out the Fry’s ad to see if there are any good deals this weekend.  Browsing through the classifieds to check out the car deals, Harley parts and pet goods.  Sports, well I will just check online for those.

Here are some of today’s front page headlines:

• Making their points, politely [debate coverage]
• Leaders more optimistic that House will back bailout today [Our governments financial crisis]
• Legal dispute may have broad effect on drilling [Grand Prairie, TX - Natural Gas drilling]
• HPV vaccine rule riles immigration advocates [Some Federal Mandate]

And a couple more, and not that you are really interested in them, but since I’m bored and work is going to get busy shortly I figured I would add those in there to kill some time and why not!

This weekend, well no major plans really, just some work around the house and a soccer game to coach.  I might head to the movies Saturday night, not sure yet.

Do you have any plans for the weekend?

Have a good Friday..!!!

Short and Slow, How was Yours?

Wow it’s Sunday night already.  Another weekend down.  This weekend seemed to move really slow.  Wait..  Maybe that’s cause I didn’t do a thing today but just sit here all day long.

OK, so it started off yesterday with some soccer practice.  That was a fun 2 hours in the sun.  Then I helped my wife get her classroom ready for the kiddo’s that start tomorrow.  I finished up the night watching Street Kings, which I have to say was a really good movie.

This morning I played around with mazzie (our dog) and lounging around really.  I did some work around the house but not much really.  Ended up watching Coyote Ugly.  Not too bad of a movie really.  Then we watched this new DVD I got.  David Crowder Band Remedy DVD + CD..  That was simply awesome.  Finished up the night and currently watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

Now don’t get me wrong I like watching the Olympics but sometimes when they show the same sport over and over again (*cough, cough, swimming, gymnastics, diving, volleyball) it gets old quick.

So did you all have a good weekend?

Theater on the Wish List

I love movies.  As far back as I can remember I have loved watching movies.  Over time though movies have changed and so have the prices. (lol)  As I have grown in age and watching the technology change over the years, I have been wanting to put in a home theater.  Now a number of years ago (uh before I was married) I bought a surround sound system, a dual DVD player and a (at the time) nice 32″ TV for my 1 bedroom apartment.  It was great even though it wasn’t technically a home theater but it sure sounded like it.  I would spend most of the weekends sitting around and watching movies.

Well I have really never lost that dream of one day owning a home theater.  Now of course our current home has a room that could possibly work but it’s not really designed for a home theater.  I always mention it to Leslie but in reality home theaters are expensive.  So it might be some *time* years before I get an official room to use, but I’m not letting it stop my dreams and my love for watching movies!

Four Things [I got tagged]

Before I get started, I think this is somewhat funny.  I have Google alerts set up for my name [tazdog] so I get this email that has [tazdog] tagged and I was like, weird, I haven’t posted anything.  So that Google alert led me to BioTeck’s site were he tagged me for this Four Things Meme..   SOOO this meme is about four things in various categories that you need to share and then tag a few others…

So here we go:

Four jobs I’ve had

1. IT Systems Administrator
2. Car Wash Attendant
3. Travel Agent
4. IT Desktop Support

Four movies I can watch over and over

1. The Transformers
2. Office Space
3. Breakfast Club
4. Black Hawk Down

Four places I’ve lived

1. Renton, Washington
2. Tacoma, Washington
3. Grand Prairie, Texas
4. Arlington, Texas

Four TV shows I love

1. So you think you can Dance
2. E.R.
3. Crime 360 and the First 48 (I know it probably counts for 2)
4. 24

Four places I’ve vacationed

1. Disneyland – California
2. Hawaii
3. Leavenworth, Washington
4. Oregon

Four of my favorite dishes

1. Steak
2. Pizza (except I can’t eat it anymore)
3. Spaghetti
4. Smoked Brisket (Beef)

Four sites I visit daily

1. Google
2. EntreCard
3. Various Tech Sites
4. Friend’s Blogs and RSS Feeds

Four places I would rather be right now

1. Mexico (on the mission trip with my wife and church)
2. Hawaii
3. New York
4. Sleeping (in my bed)

I’m going to go ahead and tag a few blogger peeps:

1. Everydayrandomness
2. Mysinglemomlife
3. Peak9
4. BrainFoggles
5. Mamaflosatx