• 'Bout to finish karaoke for the night. After napping like crazy today I should be fine on less sleep. #
• Last song is "If I had $1000000" – barenaked ladies. #
• I still can't believe that Mac users don't realize that they're paying $29 for what would be a free Service Pack in the Windows world. #
• queue fanboy attacks. #
• I am, however, really looking forward to what OpenCL will bring to the Apple platform. #
• Just printed out my worksheets. I start my p90x tonight (Classic). #
• I'm thinking @TerminalBrew for a West By God salad for supper, head home and mow, then a cool shower, then p90x, then hot shower. #
• Food – check, now onto mowing. #
• ok, now I'm really onto mowing.. needed to jog my RAMories for @phragmunkee #
• done with the yard… cool shower time. #
• took my zero day pics. rehydrating before day 1 of #p90x #
• Done with chest/back, don't know if I'll be able to finish ab ripper… Running low on energy after mowing the lawn. #
• yeah.. passing on Ab Ripper X, I'll be getting it 3 times a week when I don't mow the day of. #p90x #
• off to bed. @thatmollygirl is keeping me up past her bedtime. #
• that doesn't sound like swinging… http://tr.im/xDmF #
• ooof. at least i know the plyometrics now.. I'll be able to pace myself next go-round. week 1 = learning the ropes. #p90x #didmybest #
• hmm.. I'm @nathanielfoster's and using his interwebs.. but I don't see him… #
• meh. got speed trapped coming down signal mountain. Claims 10 over in a 35, I'm betting it was closer to 5 or 6. I don't eff with mtn roads. #
• goodnight everyone! sleeps, so I can be sore in arms and legs in the morning! #
• ZFS is SLICK! http://tr.im/xIHv #
• Ab ripper x, then a break for dinner. #
• Whew. Dinner, rest/digest, then it's arms & shoulders. #
• ugh, seriously? either I was being throttled earlier today, or Comcast is faster than my Office DS3 – downloading the same file. #
• done with my shoulders and arms #p90x. not going to attempt bonus round in week 1. pretty sure drying off after a shower is going to ache. #
• hmm… lunch? #
• mmm… lunch! #
• Think I'm going to go do my Yoga X #P90X #
• I need a longer mat (or a real yoga mat for that matter). It's frustrating and easily twice the work slipping everywhere. #
• dinnertime. didn't finish my Yoga due to my long-ass legs and lack of a yoga mat of appropriate size. #
• vegetarian lunch. I hope it's tasty. #
• "When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to… #
• …be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life" #
• Pretty much sums everything up. I coulda linked the source, but many of you wouldn't have clickied the linky: http://tr.im/xTto #
• ARES #174; Awaits Activation for Wildfires, Tropical Storms http://arrl.org/go?11054 (via @arrl) #
• Bringing down the average of my beer ratings. Gotta have the bad beers to have a ratings bearing on the good ones. #

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Yeah, I had a goal of keeping the blog posts coming, but then I got sidetracked. While I’m not entirely ready with any complete new posts, I’ll at least bring you up to date for those of you that I know don’t keep track of my twitter but read my blog in your RSS reader. I’m offering you this post as kind of an apology for not bringing you the “Regularly Scheduled Programming”. It should provide enough for you to snack on until another post follows later this week (I hope!).

P90X Workout Regimen

Monday was the first day of my P90X workout. I’m doing a different track as Molly (she’s doing the Lean Plan, I’m doing the Classic Plan) but at the same time as her for encouragement, as well as getting me a bit better in shape for the wedding and some backpacking trips I’ll be planning or am planning. I’ve been sore since I started, with emphasis on different parts of the body for the different days which is the way this program claims to work – by “muscle confusion”. I can already tell to the touch that my back, quadriceps, and triceps are toning up and I’m only 3 days into it. Today is “Yoga X”. I’m not doing the daily pictures, but I’ll probably end up doing a weekly picture digest. Right now I’m posting them privately to my Flickr account. At the end of it all I’ll share my Day Zero through Ninety improvements with a week delta, 13 in all if my math is right. If you’re interested in it, send me an email, IM, or Direct Message and I’ll try to hook you up. There’s some equipment you’ll need to procure on top of the videos, so you’re going to be financially dedicated to it from the beginning. I’m dedicated to it right now because of that “hurts so good” feeling – I guess I’m a masochist when it comes to self-improvement.

Fileserver Research

I’m brainstorming a couple of ideas for a few of my friends and I to have our own server for everything we’d use one for (Games, Streaming Media, Private Web Hosting) and the most promising option requires us to have a storage tank attached to a separate VMWare ESXi server. So when I read this article on Monday and it got me thinking about it a little more. I had been thinking about a Drobo as the solution, but wasn’t ready to make that the choice without weighing other options. Of course Mike, my supervisor at work and fellow geek, planted the bug in my ear about Sun’s ZFS which lead to me investigating Solaris/OpenSolaris as a potential solution in lieu of a Drobo.  The DataRobotics stuff is fancy, and would operate exactly as we would need it but it’s a bit pricier than we’re really wanting to get into initially. A couple of the other articles I’ve found on the topic which have helped me formulate my decision:

• Expand-O-Matic RAID-Z
• Build your own multi-terabyte file server with OpenSolaris and ZFS
• Build your own Drobo-Replacement Based on ZFS
• and a handful of others on my other computer

Anyways, this means that I’ve been geeking it up which derails the progress I was making on my other articles.

Gear Guide Research

My next article is going to be about sleeping bags what materials their made of, pros and cons, and of course – my methodology in choosing a good one. I did some here-a-little-there-a-little research regarding the materials over the weekend when I wasn’t cleaning house, doing dishes, doing laundry, watching my Netflix queue (Big Bang Theory – TV Series), or napping. I’ll probably get back on to that by the end of this weekend which should yield a post before Monday (which may have some significant sales on Camping gear). I haven’t forgotten about it, I’ve just been derailed with other things stewing in my brain!

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• Omg, I've been robbed. No wait, @thatmollygirl just took her TV back to school for the last semester #
• Wish I could walk like a normal human. I think I've got tendinitis in my upper thigh, may need to see a doctor soon. #
• uhoh @KenjiMasuda @jemjemini is on to you! in reply to KenjiMasuda #
• After removing some hacked Twitter plugins and replacing them with TwitterTools http://bit.ly/mT6jS My WP Blog is back to Valid W3C Markup. #
• FOLLOW THIS: @shitmydadsays you will not regret it! #
• The Ibuprofen helped, moving a little easier this morning – swelling has definately gone down. #
• Starting to plan for a backpacking trip in October. Hoping this won't end with @thatmollygirl in the hospital getting another organ removed. #
• #winMBP @taptaptap is giving away a $5999 ColorWare STEALTH MacBook Pro to celebrate launching Convert for iPhone! http://taptaptap.com/+NFW #
• Walking to sticky fingers a bit slower than usual, but it's a good stretch #
• Wish I had an iPhone/iPod touch to check this out! The new Boy Scout Handbook app is now available in the iTunes App Store! (via @boyscouts) #
• Whoops, I meant to put the key @leavenotrace ethics in my blog post, heading back to add them now! #LeaveNoTrace #
• Got that post updated with @leavenotrace ethics. http://bit.ly/8oGt3 #LeaveNoTrace #
• Got home, I'd be tempted to mow the lawn if this wasn't exactly how I felt before my upper thighs were in severe strain. #
• Makin' dinner and browsing my @cutcocutlery catalog. Hopefully @thatmollygirl can find something she likes. #
• Maybe "Private Caller" will leave a voicemail for me the next time they call. #
• New Post! Planning for a Backpacking Trip – The easiest way I could centralize the planning and distribution of inf… http://ow.ly/15MqAB #
• Whoops, I guess now that I have Twitter Tools on my wordpress blog I can disable hootsuite. #
• Does google docs now have Wufoo functions? Nice! I stumbled into it while cancelling my HootSuite account. #
• HA! RT @Stammy: some girls are hanging outside by the courtyard fountain. i think right about now is a good time to stroll by with the puppy #
• Fixing broken links from moving to WordPress-MU, thanks to http://bit.ly/ri9Qj #
• Trying to get into the habit of updating my blog on a more regular basis, again. Thinking 2-3 times a week is a good goal. #
• Remember all you gotta do is @person and go @twitterjuice @twitterjuice @twitterjuice. he will take care o the rest. (via @KenjiMasuda) WTF? #
• Lets try it manually seeing as how I forgot to enter my Bit.Ly API key… #
• As much as I like MODx CMS, I wish their changelog for the GA release of 1.0 would provide me ANY details. http://bit.ly/3dYTEl #
• Happy Birthday @nathanielfoster! http://twitpic.com/fe14o #
• Hmm.. price is lower than I remember for my age group for National Scout Jamboree.. I need to get my app in for Info Services! #
• hmm.. Number of Years in Scouting: 12 or more… HA! #
• ugh. @boyscouts want $100 RIGHT NOW for my app. Guess my submission will have to wait a week. #
• This month's Scouting magazine is giving me some ideas for a pretty neat honeymoon… http://www.cinnamonbay.com/ #
• RT @n00tz Most scouting mags have knots in them…sicko (via @Sandtiger) LOL, nice catch. #
• Battle.net 2.0 will allow cross-faction communication: http://tinyurl.com/mwbxse (via @WoWInsider) #
• gear research for my next blog post, contemplating splitting it up into multiple posts. #
• Decided to split the post up into multiple gear sections.. The first section will be about choosing a shelter. #
• Glance (http://bit.ly/jjNDa) just saved me a ton of time with a customer. #
• Almost done with the blog post, but it's time to go home. I'll put the finishing touches on it and post in an hour or so. #
• Ugh, starter dead? Battery is fine but the engine won't start, and I don't hear the starter even trying to turn over. #
• Maybe it's just the solenoid and I can short it to start'r up? #
• Woot! Gave the starter/solenoid a couple of love-taps with the ol'mag-lite and it started! Heading to the mechanic now! #
• Driving the minivan for a few days. #
• Uhm, okay dreaming about a zombie apocolypse isn't cool when the fiancee is in Atlanta. #
• I'm not going to be able to save money by switching to @EPB_Chattanooga. Probably means no TV when I switch. #
• Seesmic is not playing nice today. #
• Working from home without the dual monitors at the office slows things down a bit.. but probably not enough for a customer to notice. #
• I'm totally over using Simple Tags plugin for WordPress, are there any good Tag Suggestion plugins? #
• More of those appropriate colorful ads – http://twitpic.com/flldh #
• watermelon and frozen fruit smoothie, mmmm. #
• spoke.com/Tri-County Communications may have a libel lawsuit on their hands… http://bit.ly/lcQGO #
• got the pathfinder back today, fixed a friend's computer (LibUSB for jailbraking iPod Touch borked it), and hung out with another friend. #
• I think the new plugins, regular entries, and quality content I've added to my blog has changed traffic patterns drastically. #
• Bounce rate has dropped drastically: http://twitpic.com/ft7rg #
• Average time on site has increased significantly: http://twitpic.com/ft7z8 #
• I guess I'm going to have to keep it up! Ha, now I'm off to bed after a quick episode of Big Bang Theory. #

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As far back as I can remember I could read, and I grew up reading the comics Sunday morning. When I entered the period in my life where I had my very own internet-connected computer I had a My Yahoo start page with my favorite Sunday Morning Cartoons posted for me to read as soon as there was a new strip. Then I came across the world of web comics, starting with Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley (sometimes referred to as CAD). This series really enthralled me, being a video gamer and major geek the characters seemed like someone I could hang out with. If you read some early CAD comics, you’ll understand the appeal pretty easily. It was shortly thereafter I discovered Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Again, this comic appealed to me with video gaming and geeky references that I would enjoy and joined CAD as one of my all-time favorite webcomics.

When Digg, and later StumbleUpon, helped me peek out of the little bubble of the internet I was aware of I discovered many new, interesting, and fun webcomics to add to my daily reads (or at least check for updates on a regular basis). Some of them even give me the feel that I could do it myself if I only had the talent of an original sense of humor (stick figures I can do). (more…)

Those of you that follow me closely on Twitter or Facebook are already aware of my latest news. It shouldn’t come as a surprise and for some of you you’ll probably be saying “took you long enough”. After dating for nearly 4 years and great friends for about that much longer I asked my best friend to marry me.

This is a late post that has been sitting in my drafts folder for awhile. But, we’re onto the planning and man-oh-man is it a process!

Stay tuned!