So I found a solution. Kind of. Well, sort of. I’m not sure. It’s a site at tumblr. Yes, another site with a name that’s missing a vowel. Ha. I set up a site at http://kaline.tumblr.com/. It does what I want – it lets me post things quickly without jumping through a bunch of hoops, which is what slows me down at the moment. I’m pretty sure that’s what’s slowing me down.

It’s pretty bare-bones, nothing fancy, just quick posts here and there. At some point I’m going to figure out how to manage all of this. Maybe combine things into jaydreyer.com, or move everything to Tumblr, or move everything to Wordpress. I don’t know.

I’ll keep you updated. All 5 of you. Hang in there!

Oh yeah…if you’d like to play along, I was thinking of getting another domain name. I named my tumblr blog “chop, chop” (Caddyshack) but, unfortunately, some wise soul already bought the domain name chopchop.com (bastard). Then I started looking for top notch. Yeah, gone, too. Way gone. I could buy it for $7500 or something, but I passed. My brain is stuck so help me out.

FYI, you have to pay shipping charges for this. I’m not sure what UPS charges to ship 3 million albums and 300,000 CDs. Maybe the white board guy can figure that out for me.

OK…so I gave up and joined the cult that is Mac. Maybe it was the commercials. Maybe it was the desire to be hip. Maybe it was Steve Jobs’ turtlenecks. Whatever. I’ve given up and joined the Mac herd. That’s right. Mr. Windows finally gave in to the dark side (or the good side) and swapped out Vista for Leopard. So far, no complaints, whatsoever. It’s actually been WAY easier than I would have imagined, and the family is happy, as well. I just got tired of the nightly re-boots that Vista performed and threw in the towel. Just for safety’s sake, I purchased VMWare Fusion so that I can run my old Vista image in the Mac. No problems with that, either. We’re addicted to Microsoft Money so this allows us to keep using it. Other than Quicken, there aren’t any alternatives to Money that are well regarded so we’ll stick with it for a while.

Like I said, there haven’t been any problems with the Mac so far, and I haven’t been able to find anything I could do on Vista that I can’t do on the Mac (other than MS Money). There are some differences, but they haven’t caused me any trouble, nor has DeAnne had any complaints (always the most important factor).

Further sinking myself into the Apple cult, I also, finally, picked up an iPod Classic 160GB. Boo yeah. Every tune I own (90+ GB) is available to me now when I ride the bus into work. No more sitting there going, “Damn…I wish I could listen to Men at Work right now…” Problem solved. No complaints with it, either (although, it sounded like many folks have had problems with the iPod Classic…) Also, if you have a DMP that can play video, I highly recommend checking out the Onion’s videos. Fantastic.

OK…so this trip happened, like, months ago but I thought I’d share the pictures, anyway. The whole family went out to San Francisco for my sister’s (Paula) wedding and I took a bunch of pictures, which you can see by clicking the collage above. Highlights included attending a Giants game (check out the cool pics of Mr. Indicted…they are SWEET), seeing the Smashing Pumpkins at the Filmore (3+ hours…incredible), and the wine country out in Calistoga. Something about the house we stayed in in Calistoga gave me really bad sinus trouble…never could figure it out. My dad says it was the trees, and I can’t argue with him. It was something and it made me miserable.

Without saying…Paula’s wedding was the highlight of the trip. Hard to believe my littlest sister is married but that’s life! I’m very happy for her and Alex. I’ve got another great brother-in-law now. (He helps with my landscaping questions, and also plays a decent guitar.)

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