I got a new laptop a while ago. Testing out a new widget that lets me post from dashboard.

Well today is my birthday. I am now 31 years old, and yet , I don’t feel it. Last saturday I got a tattoo. It was a tattoo my brother Zac had on his arm. When he passed, I knew that it was something that I wanted to do to remember him. Now that I…

If being 30 wasn’t enough to make you start to feel old, I bought my first shares of stock today. For anyone who does not know, I live in Fort Worth. Little did I know that we are sitting on one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields. We have had wells set up all…

I started getting into microcontroller programming. I found a product called Arduino. I ended up buying it from a website called Adafruit Industries. The development environment is written in Java, but you write code in C and upload via USB to the ATmega168 microcontroller. I also purchased the LAN Module and am working on getting…

I have not had any time to update this site. I have been really busy the past few months with our ADP implementation at work. I will be glad when it is all over and I can get on with the next chapter in my life at work. I have also wanted to change this…

This past weekend I went Barnes and Noble to use a gift certificate I have had for a while. I ended up buying “Murach’s Java SE 6” book. I know. A real page turner. Anyways, I was trying to set up my computer to be able to wrote some code and for my “Hello World”…

Been busy at work. We are moving our HR/Payroll systems over to ADP and have a go live date of 1/1/2008. So all of my time at work has been devoted to supporting this. Looks like I will be going to Jacksonville, FL for some training. I will not be doing the same kind of…

I got a new monitor the other day. I had bought it from uBid for a great price about a week ago. When I was inputting my information for shipping and other misc stuff, it asked for shipping address and billing address. I regularly purchase things off the internet and always have them shipped to…

I am being replaced. More later.

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