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1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.
ZackKim is a wizard on the guitar. Here he is doing the Super Mario Theme. It makes me want to drop everything and go play some Mario Galaxy.
I know I’m a couple of weeks late, but Django 1.0 was released on September 3rd. If you are looking for a framework for web development. Make sure you check it out. Django is one of the easiest framework I’ve ever used. That is especially telling since I was learning python at the same time that I was getting started with it.
Django is a high level python framework for the web. It contains an object-relational mapper so all your data models can be defined in python, a powerful template language, a cache system, and full international support.
This year has been an expensive year for us and appliances. It started with replacing an old washer and drier. Then it was replacinig a small freezer with a bigger one. At this point things started to snowball. Our oven went on the fritz. Before we had even got a bill for the oven the refrigerator quite last Wednesday. The following is a true story about the hijinx that ensued trying to get it replaced.
Wednesday when I went to fix lunch I noticed the food in the freezer side of the refrigerator had started to thaw. I moved that food into our new freezer and checked on the refrigerator side. It was starting to warm up as well so we decide to move that food as well.
Rachel and I then had the discussion on whether to get it fixed or replace it. Since we had already put some money into fixing it in the past, we decided to just outright replace it. After work we went in search of a new fridge. Since we had purchased the other new appliances from Sears and we were moderately happy with them we decided to go there. Knowing we had a space constraint we didn’t find any we liked. We also had a wedding to go to out of town over the weekend so we were looking for something that would be delivered on Friday.
When we got back from shopping I headed online to find our fridge. I found one on the sears website that was in our price range, was available for delivery, and would fit into our space. Bingo. I ordered it for delivery on Friday. Thursday night we get our confirmation call that we had a delivery scheduled for between 10:00 AM and noon on Friday.
Friday 1:00 PM the refrigerator hasn’t shown up and we haven’t heard anything from the store. So I call the company. There was an error and the appliance didn’t make it to the warehouse. They had only found out about it at 9:30 that morning. 9:30 to 1:00 PM seems like a long time to know about a problem and not be notified about it. So after some haggling and a $50 dollar gift certificate we had a new delivery date of Tuesday. We would be traveling on Monday so Tuesday was the soonest we would be home to receive the refrigerator.
So we go to the wedding and have a great time. We get home after a 4 hour drive on Monday and have 4 calls from Sears. They had schedule the delivery for Monday and then preceded to try and deliver it while we were not home. So another call to the company. At this point we are so frustrated that we just cancel the order.
I then call up my brother to borrow a truck and off we go shopping for a refrigerator. I was going to get this taken care of that night. 4 stores and 2 hours later and nothing is in stock that will fit in our kitchen. So it’s back to sears again. I get to the store and they have the refrigerator in stock that we ordered. I buy it, we take it home, and 1 hour later it is in place. Hooray.
I really, really hated given my business back to sears since they had done such a horrible job with the deliver, but I didn’t have another choice given the fact that I’m not going to be tearing out any cabinets to get a new fridge in. All I can say is I better get my refund for the first fridge I bought from them and they are now a last resort for anything else I might want to purchase.
Today is our anniversary. Rachel and I have been married for 10 years now. I have loved the last ten years and I am looking forward to the next ten. In retrospect, it’s amazing how our lives have changed in that timeframe.
We have lived in a trailer and a house, and we have now purchased land to build a new house. We plan on building in the spring, but may hold off until later depending on circumstances.
Our marriage went through four years of infertility and we now have two wonderful boys. Noah is 3 years old and unbelievable smart and Wyatt is 22 months and he is always trying to best his brother.
Rachel worked for Mercy hospital for several years as a CNA/PCT. During her pregnancy with Noah she experienced preterm labor, and has stayed at home since. I think her job as a stay at home mom is more challenging then her previous job could have ever been. There are good days and bad, but I don’t believe she would change things if she could.
I worked for Tone Brothers, Inc. for the first 8 years of our marriage. I’ve been working from home for AOL for almost two years, now. Originally I was hired to work on Netscape Navigator 9. When The Netscape homepage moved to Propeller and the browser project was discontinued I moved over to working on Propeller full time.
Not all the changes have been good ones. The years of infertility were especially trying. I do not think you can truly understand what a strain infertility puts on a marriage unless you go through it.
I’m two years past the 30 year old mark and rapidly approaching the 33rd. Rachel is almost ready to cross the 30 year mark herself. As such, the time has taken a toll on our health. I’ve especially struggled with my weight, having gained over 80 pounds since we married. Although, in the last year I’ve taken off 30 to 35 pounds of that.
We are sitting here watching home movies of the boys over the past three years, and it just reminds me how lucky we have been. We have had good times and bad in our marriage, but watching the boys as they have aged and moved from stage to stage, reminds me just what a blessing our lives and marriage has been.
I fell in love and married Rachel ten years ago. I love her more today then I did back then. These last 10 years have been amazing and I can only imaging what the next ten years hold.
Over the weekend my brother threw a party. He fell asleep on his arm and woke up with something called “Saturday Night Palsy”. Saturday Night Palsy or Radial neuropathy results from acute trauma to the radial nerve that extends the length of the arm. As of last night he was starting to get some movement back in his wrist, but it was still impaired. He has a doctors appointment about it, today.
I just hope that the condition isn’t permanent and he will regain full use of his hand and wrist.
Propeller anchors Alexia Pritchard and James Marcus are covering the Republican National Convention. They have gotten some great video of peoples reactions to Sarah Palin’s speech last night. You can discuss the story over on Propeller.
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