I don’t mean to be conceited, but I’m darn good at Beyond Balderdash. I’m not sure if I should be proud, or ashamed, because the whole premise of the game is that the best liar wins. It is great fun, but what does it say about me? A few months ago, I thought about purchasing the domain fakepedia.com, and filling … Read more
A blog reader named Rachel left a comment on my Thanksgiving post, and due to server problems, I didn’t see the comment until this morning. I felt so bad, I thought I’d make a blog post out of the comment, and drop Rachel an email with my apologies. Rachel commented: Hi Shawn, My husband was laid off on 12/04/06 after … Read more
I was talking to my wife recently about music. She mentioned that she doesn’t like Nirvana, because it puts her in a dark mood. Discussions about the value of Kurt Cobain’s music notwithstanding, it’s impossible to deny that he could express his torturous depression impeccably in his music. What really stuck with me in our discussion, however, was that music … Read more
It’s a little disheartening to think about the vastness of space, especially in contrast to the shortness of our lives. We talk about a “close” star being only 50 light years away — but holy cow. If my mother sent a message when I was born, I’d be dead before the congratulations ever got back from E.T. Our 90ish years … Read more
This year, my family stole a tradition from some friends of ours. Every year, the evening before Thanksgiving they eat cabbage soup, and spend the evening together in candlelight (ie, no lights). Then, the next morning, oatmeal is all they get for breakfast. The idea is that it will make them all very thankful for Thanksgiving. We decided to do … Read more
About 7 years ago, my family was in a very rough spot due to a car accident that turned our lives upside down. We were forced to go on welfare, my pregnant wife was forced to take a job bussing tables at a local restaurant, and we were the recipients of holiday food baskets, etc. It was a humbling time, … Read more
Just a quick post. THIS is what we had Thursday morning… Gotta love Northern Michigan. 🙂
I haven’t posted, I actually began fleshing out the site a little. There’s now an “About Me” link, along with an “About my Faith” link. I’m working on a better eyeball picture too. (I sorta like the creepy factor my eyeballs give the site…) Stay tuned, I haven’t given up on the blog again!
Here’s the long version of what happened Friday regarding the file server. If you’re not interested, by all means just ignore this. It’s for informational purposes only. I was scheduled to work Thursday night 3rd shift. My plan was to apply security patches, run updates, scan hard drives, etc., on servers. Pretty much the stuff that can’t be done during … Read more
Friday morning at work started with me scotch taping the following note on every teacher’s door in our school district… ATTENTION!!! READ THIS!!! Last night there was a catastrophic hardware failure in the server room. Any and all documents are NOT available. I started restoring from backups at 4AM, but there are over 8 million files (really), and it will … Read more