It's Let's Bring Em Home Time!

Around this time last year I asked everyone I know to pass on a few half-caf double mocha grande zip zap cappucinos and devote that money to something useful.

It's time to mention Ernie Stewart and crew from www.lbeh.org. A charity dedicated to getting enlisted troops home for the holidays.

I just made my donation and I ask you to do the same.

If the internet is slow for you this week:

First of all, I'm back. I took October off to keep my brain from melting due to work. Cisco CallManger kicks ass, and Mitel can blow me. And so can all of their Atlanta support guys.



Secondly, the internet will be crushingly slow this week because the Left 4 Dead 2 pre-load has unlocked on Steam. This is going to be the best first person shooter ever. It has to be to trump the original.

Steam kicks ass. It's great for so many reasons. Online achievements and social networking, Online game distribution. Seriously, screw going to a store. Never again. Hard drive full, just move your Steam folder to a new drive and launch Steam.exe from the new location and it will fix all of your shortcuts. Not only can you buy games online, you can pre-order. And as with the case today, you can download the game before release so you have the bulk of the material when it unlocks on release day, save for the rare update.

I almost wrecked when I saw this one

Ever see the Red Rocket Episode of South Park?

Yeah I bet.

Saw this one on the way home a little while back.

Hey, uh, you might want to check that lock!

Click the pic to see what's wrong.

Natalie is Pretty Awesome

Last night I was working on my phone. It uses a SD Micro card. I use a SD Card adapter to read micro cards on my laptop.

I left my SD adapter with an SD Micro in it on the table in the den when I called it a night.

In the morning the card was gone, in the typical way that the den gets destroyed when Natalie is playing.

I asked her if she saw it, and she knew what I was talking about, but didn't know where the conversation is going.

Later in the day I asked Lisa to check around the den for it, hopefully it was under the couch/chair/dog instead of in Lindsey's stomach. No luck finding it.

Lisa asked Natalie about it and she went to the kitchen and pointed to my laptop. She clearly knew that the thing we were looking for was used with the laptop. But how did she know that?

Then tonight I just happened to need my laptop to burn a CD.
Lo and Behold:

Not only did she find the SD adapter, she put where she thought it belonged, which happened to be in the cd tray on my laptop.

In car wifi is cool

You see, I forgot to buy it this morning before I left the house. So I did the next best thing. I stopped at the corner gas station and hooked up my portable wifi router and Verizon Broadband Card. Once the first track of the album finished downloading, hit shuffle on the whole album, and as the downloads finished while I was driving to work, they automatically fell into the play list and were available to listen to.